Author Archives: swanny

  Wherever they went, whatever town they set up a factory in, this chemical company blighted it and put local residents at risk. Their apologists can claim that accidents can happen, and these were somehow in the distant past but … Continue reading →

This is a story I stumbled upon by chance, as many of them tend to be, or I tend to believe “guided” to find. It concerns the area beyond what would have been the former Rattlechain Brickworks or Stour Valley … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

  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 →

  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 →

  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 →

  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 →