Image of Solway Works, Kells, Whitehaven, Copeland, Cumbria, UK, 1953 (b/w photo)

Solway Works, Kells, Whitehaven, Copeland, Cumbria, UK, 1953 (b/w photo)

IMAGE number: EHT6619500
Image title: Solway Works, Kells, Whitehaven, Copeland, Cumbria, UK, 1953 (b/w photo)
Date: 1953 AD (C20th AD)

Image description: Photographer, John Laing and Son (Holdings) Ltd; Builder, John Laing and Son (Holdings) Ltd; Close-up of a worker drilling screws into a wooden plank in a construction yard at the Solway Chemical Works in Whitehaven Solway Chemicals Ltd were a subsidiary of Marchon Products Ltd. In 1943, Marchon established a large chemical works at a site in Kells, Whitehaven. In 1955, Solway Chemicals Ltd opened a new anhydrite development next to the Marchon site. Sometimes known as Solway Works, this plant produced sulphuric acid and included an anhydrite mine, cement kilns and an acid plant.
Photo credit: © Historic England / John Laing Photographic Collection / Bridgeman Images
Image keywords: workshop / building site / employment / worker

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