BSG.BS.02012 — French, Cement Seal, Haubourdin Cement

Found at Tytherington, Wiltshire, 19mm.

CIMENT / flower head / HAUBOURCIN / flower head / PORTLAND // crowned shield bearing arms / LILLE, SOCIETE ANONYME DES CIMENTS & CHAUX HYDRAULIQUES (DU NORD) around

A cement bag seal for Haubourdin Portland cement.

FRENCH CEMENT WORKS, History of the Lexos d'Haubourdin and Allas les mines cement works, "1899: Construction of the factory. North hydraulic cement & lime company. 1901: first cement kiln 1954: construction of furnace 1 1972: construction of furnace 2, cement silos A & B and crusher n ° 5 1975: takeover by Ciments LAFARGE 1978: Transformation of furnace 2 in a semi-wet process; construction of filtration workshop and LEPOL grid and final shutdown of furnace 1 1980: demolition of furnace 1 1981: construction of the coal workshop 1984: Final shutdown of furnace 2 (deposit until 1987) 1985: Definitive stop of clinker grinding, maintenance of a deposit with bagging of cement 1987: Final shutdown of the site 1991/2002: demolition of the site

Mark: Cement "With the arms of Lille" Lime "Lion of Flanders"

Production capacity: 1945: 200,000 Tons / year 1954: 400,000 Tons / year 1972: 900,000 Tons / year 1980: 500,000 Tons / year"