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Bending Science- book review and 2023 perspective opinion

“How special interests corrupt public health research.” The title of this 2008 published book drew me in, because I already knew the playbook having experienced the long denials of an multinational company spinning lies and deceit about their waste dumping … Continue reading

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The horrors of white phosphorus

It’s all very well the apologists of Albright and Wilson promoting how wonderful this chemical was when it clearly brought death and injury to the area, and if the Germans had been lucky in World War Two and hit this … Continue reading

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Peter Bloore- CIMAH, CIMAH CIMAH CIMAH CIMAH COMEDIAN…..

…..he lies and nose, it grows and grows, it grows and gro.oh.oh.oh’s   The semantic snake and phosphorus pork pie projectile vomitter known as Peter Bloore was something else of the night. Throughout the 1980’s and early 1990’s his name … Continue reading

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White phosphorus misadventures #19 Who spiked The Baron’s Brew?

  This early misadventure concerns another 19th Century crime involving this notorious easily obtainable poison. To Germany then with the story, as the 5th October 1861 Kent Times, Tonbridge and Sevenoaks Examiner explained. It is stated that the case had received popular … Continue reading

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Pondering an old Bugle Barnett’s brick works query

  The above picture and article below appeared in the 12th August Black Country Bugle in 1999. It was a query sent in by a descendent of a brick worker thought to be Barnett’s brickworks in Dudley Port. The photograph … Continue reading

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Out of time- The Black Country Living Museum visit and review

  This site is one of the most well known tourist attractions in the region and offers a fascinating window into the soul of an area that has since perhaps lost its identity. I say this obviously because of the … Continue reading

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A man that time forgot- Dugdale Houghton- A chemical arm mystery solved

  The ghastly “chemical arm” at Trinity Street for decades served as a waste graveyard for Albright and Wilson’s toxic trade as well as that originally for Chance and Hunt which later became ICI. I have looked at some of … Continue reading

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Albright’s toxic archives #45 1981- an annus horribilis for Trinity Street

Or Pratt Day’s year off  The context of Albright and Wilson’s cheapskate cost-cutting, see last post, is revealed in the Hugh Podger Book “The last 50 years”. The Thatcher Government began to privatise industries and the economic recession bit hard. … Continue reading

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Albright’s toxic archives#44 The costcutters aka The Albright cheapskates

You would have thought that with a string of accidents at Trinity Street that the works management would have pulled out all the strings with spending more on processes to ensure the safety of workers and the outside public- but … Continue reading

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Albright’s toxic archives #43 Another fatal blow- AND COVER UP

And so to another Trinity Street Albright and Wilson fatality, showing that this is not something that only happened in the  late 19th or early 2oth centuries. The Birmingham Mail of 21st October 1982 reported the death of Tom Tolson, a … Continue reading

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