EPW032181 ENGLAND (1930). British Standard Cement Works, Rainham, 1930

Hi Dylan,



It's great having your pins that label the parts of these works. Rather than looking at an "industrial building", the annotations help to explain all the different parts of the complex process. It's so easy to take a ubiquitous product like cement for granted; but in fact it's a really important part of our lives.



Have you thought of using the Wiki section for these images, to write something more extensive about the works?



Yours, Katy

Britain from Above Cataloguing Team Leader

Since the details of a cement plant are easily recognisable to an expert in cement manufacture, it would be easy to add a great many more “pins” to this and other photographs. I made the mistake of adding the link in my comment, not realizing that the site unaccountably diverts the link to Wikipedia. I hope Wikipedia don’t mind being importuned in this way! However, seriously, users of Britain From Above who want to know about this site should paste “http://www.cementkilns.co.uk/cement_kiln_british_standard.html” into their browser. Further information in the form of a simplified description of the process used at this plant in 1930 is on “http://www.cementkilns.co.uk/bs_desc.html”. Regarding the use of a “Wiki” page – the trouble with wikis is that ANYONE can edit them! People all over the world use the internet, and the majority of them – I hope! – would prefer that what they find there is authoritative. I hope it’s English Heritage’s policy to move in that direction with this site.