Monthly Archives: December 2017

  Albright and Wilson as a company and as two families engaged in chemical production making profit from an industry which poisoned animals and birds with their industrial pollution effluent. What is less well known about the founder families was their love … Continue reading →

So to the inevitable Sandwell cabinet head nod to their planning officers ludicrous “garden city” proposals, part of which includes building more houses next to rattlechain lagoon on  land still heavily contaminated itself as part of a housing allocation scheme. … Continue reading →

  A great man visited Sandwell  last Tuesday, The West Midlands Mayor Andy Street. The free event at the now festively decorated Oldbury Kremlin offered “A chance for residents of Sandwell and the wider West Midlands, to come and ask … Continue reading →

    Another in the continuing saga of “The Oldbury smell” – you just can’t keep that kitty down! I have previously outlined how this had all started in The Albright and Wilson Oil additives plant. This ongoing social menace … Continue reading →