Swanscombe
Swanscombe is a village in the Borough of Dartford in Kent, England. It is located east of Dartford and also north-west of Gravesend, in the civil parish of Swanscombe and Greenhithe. At the 2001 UK census, the Swanscombe electoral ward had a population of 6,418. Swanscombe was important in the early history of concrete. The very first concrete production works near Swanscombe were opened at Northfleet by James Parker, around 1792, making "Roman cement" from cement rock brought from the Isle of Sheppey. James Frost opened an operate at Swanscombe in 1825, making use of chalk from Galley Hill, having actually patented a brand-new cement called British Cement. The Swanscombe plant was ultimately gotten by John Bazley White & Co, which ended up being the largest component of Blue Circle Industries when it created in 1900. It ultimately closed down in 1990. Between 1840 as well as 1930 it was the biggest concrete plant in Britain. By 1882 a number of concrete producers were running throughout the north Kent region, but the resulting dust contamination drove the people of Swanscombe to take lawsuit against the local cement works. Despite numerous technological innovations, the trouble persisted right into the 1950s, with telegraph lines over an inch thick in white dirt. Modern concrete kilns in Kent utilizing chimneys 170 m (550 feet) in height are currently stated to be the cleanest on the planet. However, the adjoining Medway communities are reported to be one of the most contaminated lived in location in the UK, and also the cement sector adds to acid rain in Scandinavia.
