10. Machine house progress. Getting the roof on, though the framing is still being extended. The lancashire boilerhouse frames are going up behind, as is the reinforcing steel for the coal bunkers. In the distance can be seen the chimneys of one of the cement works, probably the Burham Brick Lime and Cement Co.
In the foreground, excavation and foundations for the beaterfloor and turbine house.
On the far left, a Midland Railway open wagon stands on a temporary standard gauge siding laid at 90 degrees to the mill siding parallel to the SECR mainline. Several temporary sidings were laid like this to bring materials right up to and into the buildings, as will be evident in later photos (and shown in one already posted on the Aylesford Paper Mills – Early view of East Mill thread, an LNWR open wagon within the machine house north end).
