Burtt & Sons blue plaque
Connection to This Location
# Albany Road, London Standing before the Lime Kiln on Albany Road, you're witnessing the industrial beating heart of Burtt & Sons's enterprise—a place where two seemingly ordinary materials, coal and limestone, were transformed into the very substance that literally held Victorian London together....
Location
Albany Road
Inscription
The Lime Kiln was built in 1816 by builders' suppliers Burtt & Sons, and is now Grade II listed. Coal and limestone brought along the canal were burnt for 3 days to produce quicklime, a key ingredient of mortar for houses and fertilizer for agriculture. As 'limelight' it was used to illuminate Victorian theatres.