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Author Archives: swanny
Albright’s toxic archives #50 A conference for dummies
This toxic archive is a gift. It is taken from The Sandwell Chronicle of 26th October 1996. As always with this company, and not that many years before their demise, they are about desperately trying to promote themselves as safety … Continue reading
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White phosphorus misadventures #22 Some kids do av em!
Most mothers are loving and kind, but some like the one in the story below are coercive Mrs Bates figures of reality and not fiction who fear their offspring leaving them behind and not having any part in their adult … Continue reading
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Meet the mayor the sequel- Landfill Homes- You can’t Parker, there mate!
Back in 2017, a fresh faced Andy Street had not long won his first term as metro mayor of The West Midlands. At that event held at Sandwell council house, I quizzed him about Rattlechain and the then plans … Continue reading
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Former Albright and Wilson/Rhodia employee- “The Rattlechain lagoon is our Chernobyl”
One former employee Jim Gull got in touch with us to highlight how he was affected by the very chemical white phosphorus delivered, stored and handled, and of course dumped in ludicrous claimed “small amounts” in the lagoon according … Continue reading
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Rattlechain Lagoon 2005
POST 500 A MILESTONE MOMENT. For this 500th post, I wanted to capture the essence of why I started this blog, to tell the story of the victims of industrial pollution. A very interesting find from the Dave Bagnall … Continue reading
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The Gower Tip cover up works commence
It has been some time since I wrote about this satellite waste dump of Albright and Wilson connected to The Birmingham Canal navigations in the same way that rattlechain lagoon received waste originally by boat. In early 2022, following … Continue reading
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Dust and not so good vibrations
Back in 1990 when Lineker and Gazza were “expressing themselves” in Italia 90, in Tividale a different type of game was starting to unfold. Messrs Hurst and Hurst were carving up land on a former tip on tips with … Continue reading
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Landfill Homes- an ugly blank canvas for fiction writers
CAN YOU SPOT WHERE YOUR HOUSE WAS BUILT? The area bordering three sections of canal and The Tipton and Dudley Road was once an agricultural marsh land punctuated only by The Rattlechain brickworks. When the crooked conman Sydney Sheldon … Continue reading
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We’ve been watching you- “Rattlechain Redevelopments Limited”
WLBRL INVESTIGATION- A COMPLEX WEB OF DIRTY BUSINESS DEALS For some time, I have been aware and monitoring two companies by the name of “Rattlechain Redevelopments Ltd” and “Coneygre Redevelopments Limited”– these directly relate to land interests off site of … Continue reading
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Residential victims of “reclamation”
WLBRL EXCLUSIVE Those living on The Temple Way estate have had a very rude awakening of how dubious outfits backed by Sandwell council do not care about ripping out views that were bought with the home, views that cannot be … Continue reading
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