Solway Works, Kells, Whitehaven, Copeland, Cumbria

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

Acid Builder Cement Chemical Chemicals Copeland Drilling Established Holdings Kells Kilns Labourer Laing Plank Screws Solway Sometimes Subsidiary Sulphuric Whitehaven

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