Author Archives: swanny

  The document below is a must read for anyone who lives next to or had their homes built on a historic landfill site. Unfortunately, what you will read in the file has probably already been deleted by the powers … Continue reading →

  Have you seen the Environment Agency dealing with a pollution incident in the last six months? From personal experience, I believe that they have gone Covid AWOL, and are now more concerned with deferring events onto private water companies … Continue reading →

One of my favourite TV shows as a kid was The Incredible Hulk- a story of a man with a secret who hid a monstrous creation of his own making, but travelled around from place to place picking up  casual … Continue reading →

    Chris Adams got in touch on reading recent posts about the area West of Rattlechain Lagoon off Rose Lane. She vividly recalls the agricultural land shown above, and fills out further information before it was turned into a … Continue reading →

This area of land forms quite a complex challenge to describe and also define visually  in terms of what it used to be and what it has now become. It is the middle part from which the land changed use … Continue reading →

William Blake   Rattlechain lagoon Rattlechain brickworks Birmingham Mainline Canal Tividale Sewage Works The new rattlechain brickworks pit that would become “The Duport’s tip”. Dudley Road allotments Brades Hall farm (Monks farm) The Gower Branch Canal. Rose Lane in red.  … Continue reading →

In the case of the now little known Rose Lane of Oldbury, “invisible worms” came by lorry under the guise of some “transport” haulage company or “waste disposal” operation and left the land saturated with chemical sickness. Rose Lane ran in … Continue reading →

Swearword box at the ready. This Conservative Government is increasingly becoming worse in its policy decisions. The recent outlined changes to the planning system, which have been progressively watered down over the years to the benefit of Tory party political … Continue reading →

  There are very few documented cases of the environmental release of white phosphorus on a large scale, (apart from its misuse in war….oh sorry “smokescreening”), but one such instance occurred in Ohio in the US in 1986, and yes … Continue reading →

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 →