Monthly Archives: August 2023

A man that time forgot- Dugdale Houghton- A chemical arm mystery solved

  The ghastly “chemical arm” at Trinity Street for decades served as a waste graveyard for Albright and Wilson’s toxic trade as well as that originally for Chance and Hunt which later became ICI. I have looked at some of … Continue reading

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Albright’s toxic archives #45 1981- an annus horribilis for Trinity Street

Or Pratt Day’s year off  The context of Albright and Wilson’s cheapskate cost-cutting, see last post, is revealed in the Hugh Podger Book “The last 50 years”. The Thatcher Government began to privatise industries and the economic recession bit hard. … Continue reading

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Albright’s toxic archives#44 The costcutters aka The Albright cheapskates

You would have thought that with a string of accidents at Trinity Street that the works management would have pulled out all the strings with spending more on processes to ensure the safety of workers and the outside public- but … Continue reading

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