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1900s Dunstable Lime Company's Lime Work and Quarry Sewell

1900s Dunstable Lime Company's Lime Work and Quarry Sewell

A view of the lime kilns, quarry and railway spur at the Dunstable Lime Company's works at Sewell in the 1900s.

Very little remains of the works today.

J.B. Forder established a lime quarry at Sewell in the 1800s. The works and quarry were sold to the Blue Circle Cement Company in 1920.

 

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Image Details

Photographer Unknown
Catalogue Number Cat 266.jpg
Copyright Dunstable Gazette
Collection Holder Houghton Regis Heritage Society