Monthly Archives: June 2021

Rhodia’s Pestilence cannot be buried that easily

I recently did a double take when passing the infamous turquoise gates to find a couple of familiar landmarks conspicuous by their absence. Here below is the spot the difference picture. And on closer inspection…… These signs on the only … Continue reading

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Albright’s toxic archives #33 The wartime seaman saboteur

  If you read accounts of “local history” of this company in the 1980’s and early 90’s you would think that Albright and Wilson the company had won the Second World War single handed. Accounts of their Home Guard, the … Continue reading

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The crooked Tividale “builder”

  This is another post about the “non-bino” wino from Lower City Road- Mr Sydney Sheldon- the man whose dubious brickworks enterprise following on from the Barnett family ruined the area around Rattlechain with the sell off of large parcels … Continue reading

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