page_title: Stoneferry
section_title: Industry
hierarchical_section_title: Stoneferry / History / Industry
caption_attribution_description: English: The River Hull at Stoneferry The Cargill oilseed processing plant is on the left; 'Reckitt's' chimney is on the right of the shot.
context_page_description: Stoneferry is a suburb of Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It was formerly a small hamlet on the east bank of the River Hull, the site of a ferry, and, after 1905, a bridge. The area is primarily industrial, and is situated on the east bank of the river, as well as close by areas on the west bank.
  Stoneferry Road travels south through Stoneferry and Wilmington towards the centre of Hull. Ferry Lane runs east for a short distance from Stoneferry bridge to meet Stoneferry Road.
context_section_description: By the 1850s there was a whiting and oil mill in Stoneferry, by 1910 development was continuous along the River Hull banks, consisting of mills for seed oils, whiting, and associated industries such as paint and pigment works, as well as a cement works immediately south of Ferry Lane.
  In 1884 the Hull-based company Reckitt & Sons established a factory at Morley Street to manufacture synthetic Ultramarine. This later became part of Reckitt & Colman, and was later sold to Yule Catto becoming Holliday Pigments. In 2003 it had a capacity of about 9,000 t.p.a. The factory's 463-foot (141 m) chimney, the tallest structure in Hull, known as Reckitt's chimney was used to discharge Sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere, a Flue gas desulphurisation plant was installed at the beginning of the 21st century, making the chimney practically obsolete. The plant closed in 2007 due to restructuring.
  A cement works was established by Martin Brown & Co. in 1878, the works was acquired, and became Skelsey & Co. (1885), later Skelsey's Adamant Cement Co. Ltd. (1890); the works was replaced by the Port Barton plant in the 1890s, and the site was incorporated into Reckitt's Ultramarine works. Another cement works was established in 1889 as Hull Portland Cement Co., with rotary kilns first installed in 1903, after several changes of ownership it became part of Earles cement in 1911. Production ended in 1927 due to restructuring at Earles, and the site was used for aggregate storage with wharfside rail mounted cranes, until being redeveloped into a retail trade park Medina Park at the turn of the 21st century.
  In 1912 the large Isis Oil Mills was built for Wray, Sanderson & Co. (now a listed building). Other oil seed mills and works in Stoneferry no longer extant include the 'King's Mill' (est. c. 1885); HOMCO (Hull Oil Manufacturing Co., Ltd.); and the Premier Oil Extracting Mill. The latter two had developed into large oil seed mills by the 1920s, and both were early users of solvent extraction. To the north-west of HOMCO was a paint works, the Stoneferry works of Hangers paints.
  A short branch off the Hull-Hornsea railway line was built (c. 1913) which connected to Stoneferry goods station (53.7688°N 0.3259°W), as well as the Premier Oil and Cake Mills north of Ferry Lane. The line had completely closed by the 1970s.
  To the north of the traditionally industrialised area the 243 acres (98 ha) Sutton Fields Industrial Estate was established by the City Council in the 1970s.
caption: The Isis Oil Mills (Cargil plc), and Reckitt's chimney (August 2008)
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