Monthly Archives: July 2020

White Phosphorus misadventures#4 Toebal warming

A story from The Wakefield and West Riding Herald from 27th July 1907 reveals how it got a little steamy beneath the sheets for a husband and wife who had retired to bed.  😛 It probably wasn’t the kind of … Continue reading

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Albright’s toxic archives #24 Another Albright “alarming explosion”

    I have set out previously many explosions associated with the Trinity Street site and its chemical firm fiends Albright and Wilson.   Take this example from 1899 which killed a man and seriously burnt others.  Not only do … Continue reading

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Mr Albright’s boys

  The pompous fake legacy of this Quaker chemical manufacturer became well established and cemented in the area where his company really wrought havoc, pollution and death. Civic society and libraries have disgraced themselves in promoting the philanthropic fable for … Continue reading

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