Author Archives: swanny

There is a major problem with Sandwell Council’s planning department in the way in which they are working for applicants and NOT for the public. Many examples have come to light about officers scheming with developers who just happen to … Continue reading →

    Well, this one concerns red phosphorus actually.  😛 I have looked at white phosphorus and accidents in schools in this post, when it used to be allowed in school laboratories. There was another case of misadventure where an idiot … Continue reading →

ALBRIGHT AND WILSON’S “ABSOLUTE AND UTTER SCANDAL”     Without doubt things began to unravel for this abysmal employer in the 1990’s along with their ultimate demise. The number of incidents at Trinity Street and elsewhere during this decade made … Continue reading →

  In 1951, Sydney Barratt, then vice chair of AW stated in the history of the company “100 years of phosphorus making”  ; “When at the close of the second war the company could take stock of themselves and make … Continue reading →

  It seems the berks in the Home Guard were not the only fools to dispose of P4 WMD, but whereas land was their preferred method, the regulars were at it using watery graves. A great piece from Chemistry World … Continue reading →

  I have compiled several recorded incidents of AW bomb discoveries previously, but here are a few more I have found recently which shows just what a pain they really were/still are. The first from The Spalding Guardian of 17th … Continue reading →

I have looked extensively at the production, use and ultimate abandonment of these useless but highly dangerous white phosphorus filled half pint milk bottles, manufactured by Albright and Wilson on behalf of The British Government during The Second World War for an anti-tank guerrilla warfare campaign … Continue reading →

The millennium came and went as the Coneygre site was left abandoned by Mintworth. With the dodgy recycling venture thwarted, it would be a couple of years before another housing development scheme entered the pipeline, this time on the adjacent … Continue reading →

  The Coneygre story and Mintworth’s involvement with the site in this second post is commenced with this letter from the Black Country Development Corporation to a Lindley Avenue resident in June 1992. It is noted that Clive Dutton of … Continue reading →

The former Coneygre foundry site off Coneygree Road, Tipton and land to the North of this has some inextricable links with the former Duport’s Tip area and the former Tividale sewage works area (now a housing estate), adjacent to Rattlechain … Continue reading →