What Lies Beneath Rattlechain Lagoon?

All of Albright and Wilson’s manufacture sites had accidents and poor health and safety, bar none. I have detailed the catalogue of issues at Trinity Street, where phosphorus and chlorine were by far the biggest dangers to workers and the public. An incident where several workers were gassed by Cl2 occurred in 1974  , but I have found another at one of the dirty buggers lesser known sites in London called “Canning Road”.

Situated in the East End of London in Stratford, not the better known Midlands beauty spot of Shakespeare by the Avon, I have little information on this place as it occupies a very brief mention in both of the AW propaganda books about the company. The Hugh Podger book reveals that it was to close in 1984 “because of adverse trading conditions and declining sales.” 

It further however states that this was the site which produced phosphorus acid, where AW were the largest producers in the world. This may be a boast, but it is clear that they were potentially also the biggest cancer manufacturers on the planet with this ghastly substance being used in Monsantos round up.

This process site  eventually closed and the lucky people of Oldbury got it instead. FFS! 😥

I digress however as this toxic archive shows that chlorine was handled irresponsibly at this site and from the Daily Mirror of 11th August 1967 we find out more.

Sixteen workers required hospital treatment, with a further seventeen affected after a leaking cylinder exposed them to the toxic chemical. We see that it was the fire service who were called again to deal with the incident. In peacetime, there is no doubt that this company posed more of a risk than the Germans did in war to the civilian population with chemical weapons. Germany never used used them. 

The “babbles” that Albright and Wilson blew were never a “pretty babbles in the air.” 😆 😆 😆

For those more astute, you may have noticed that there is now an https prefix to this website, well at least it’s now “secure” 😆

I’ve been using WordPress now for ten years without that many issues but unfortunately it appears that like with most things, someone decided to screw up what wasn’t broken with the new default block editing- which is fucking horrendous to put it mildly.

Thankfully, at least for now, I have the option of continuing with classic editor and not having to create text boxes like some 1990’s crap Mac. Another issue is that the comments on the pages have disappeared from public view, but are still there in draft, and over the next week or so I will reinstate them all with original post and text so that they appear in search engines.

I will also be assigning tags to pages and posts which I have wanted to do for some time as subjects eg #whitephosphorus. Another thing I will be doing is creating PDF breakdowns of the main issues surrounding this site, the history, the pollution story and other matters. This website now has well over 200 pages and over 400 posts, and so can be daunting for anyone to get a bitesize appetite for to know the facts of the case. These PDF’s will have the relevant links for further reading and evidence base. Some pages I am keeping deliberately from public view until such time as they may become relevant. 😎

To start as an appetizer, here are the facts concerning the site history.

site history

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Third world Britain of the 1970’s.

This article from the Sandwell Evening Mail of 23rd April 1977 shows how the control of substances hazardous to human health were not being dealt with by any reliable form of legislation but instead the safeguarding of communities unlucky enough with Bad neighbours like Albright and Wilson were reliant on the “early warning” system of one woman’s nostrils.

Of course, at this point in history, the stench from the Langley stink panther was the stuff of legend, and I do not mean myth. “The Oldbury smell” I have chronicled in several posts, and an overview of these can be read HERE.  

1974 had seen The Flixborough disaster  where 28 people died in a chemical explosion in Lincolnshire leading to the Health and Safety at Work Act , and two years later in Italy, the Seveso disaster.  More kneejerk reaction followed this, and yet in 1984 we would see The Bhopal disaster as well. Living near to any chemical factory puts your health and life at greater risk, and that is a fact, whatever the chemical industry tries to lie otherwise. 

We know of course the form for the works management scum at the Langley factory and their semantics and distortions of the truth, and this article appears to show the type of gaslighting that continues to the present day with this industry about health and safety. We know that Day’s successor, the ludicrous “Dr” Bloore, had a nose like Pinnochio. 

Cissie Jones , I assume she is no longer with us unless you know otherwise, should be commended for her community spirit, like that of the terrier Mrs Gunn who took the fight to these phossy buggers back in the 1950’s over the blight to the local area. Unfortunately, it is fairly clear to me that an article like this was a propaganda piece for this company rather than a serious or credible story about the continued risk posed by the works. At this time, phosphorus and chlorine were still being delivered by rail, and there had been leaks and fires. A chlorine leak in 1974 for example had hospitalised several staff. 

The “good neighbours committee”- what a terrible name implying somehow that this dire company were anything of the sort, was a vehicle which they could use for pretending that they cared or were listening. As I found out when attending such meetings where I raised concerns about bird deaths, it was merely a way of gauging what you knew about their shit, and getting nothing and no credible info back in return- such as the toxicity of fucking phosphorus.

The quarterly meetings referred to would no doubt give Pat Day the vehicle to bullshit about how wonderful AW were and tea and biscuits would be served. This type of personalised meeting would also offer the biggest moaners a chance to be neutralised in isolation, rather than dealing with the press outright, as Mrs Gunn had done in the early days. All of these matters were about psychology and nothing to do with chemistry.  

Unfortunately, the gaslighting of poor Cissie is completed with believing that she is actually making a difference by reporting such smells to Day. How much had already been covered up, and not reported by those at the plants is not mentioned or delved into in this daft story. If she smelt anything bad, it was just a means of giving her some bullshit knowing that she would communicate this back to the others in her street.

What Cissie and the community did not know, and certainly not revealed by Messrs Day and Bloore was the following, sent to us by a then serving policeman in Oldbury.  The  bloodhound of the law could at least detect bullshit.

A few years ago, I started a list of former waste disposal sites within the West Midlands County; an attempt to list these before the powers that be erase them for purposes of housebuilding and conning people out of money and not telling them the truth about the shite contaminated land that their houses have been built upon or near.

We have seen a massive shift in recent times in the “brownfield building” con man trade, an axis of avarice between politicians who make policy to serve their party political donor mates from this sector, as well as their land owner mates to whom “greenbelt land” will become more profitable so long as they can sit on it for as long as possible by land banking.

We also see this trade facilitated by the snivel service, that glut of lazy still work from home public sector fucking scum who appear unaccountable to anyone if they feel “bullied”- er not doing their fucking jobs properly. They serve business and they fellate certain politicians, and my contempt for them is total. They consider themselves one step above the people who pay their wages- the public, to whom they care nothing. Many of course do not even live in this county preferring Derbyshire/ Worcestershire or anywhere else where they can presumably commute by car whilst trying to inflict their Nazi Globalist lockdown LTN 15 minute cities on those that do.

I have added dozens more sites prefixed by the SL number, but what is clear from the Environment Agencies processed Landfill site database from which I took these is that their information is not complete- there are clearly many many numbers in the SL line that are not there. I have just over 300 named and yet the SL numbers go into the 2000’s! This body or the predecessor in the useless Walsall council run hazardous waste unit further made things difficult by renumbering these with the prefix 644/—-. For example, the infamous Rattlechain lagoon SL31 became 644/60 . At some point, I will add these numbers in and also try to deduce where these are hiding. Some later ones after this also had a WM number, such as the British Waterways Blue Button Tip in Coseley.

British Waterways Blue Button Tip – one of many dredging tips used by this dire former polluter to land

Other observations emerge from compiling this decanted set from theirs.

• Many of the sites were granted to either the useless West Midlands County Council or other local authorities within it.
• The locations have been possibly lost to history, with many old clay pits and quarries filled in.
• There is scant information as to what happened to sites after WW2 and before site licensing, and yet a great deal of information about the historic nature of these sites BEFORE they were infilled with any old crap BEFORE licensing.
• This fact leads to scurrilous faked claims by environmental consultancies who leave out key information deliberately to enable their clients to escape the necessary scrutiny of those who question why they fail to find evidence of harmful chemicals- even though everyone knows that they were dumped there. This emboldens a Jackanory story board “site investigation” where boreholes can be cherry picked to find nothing- nothing that would deter development on land known to be contaminated by past use.

An example of this is a site in Coseley known as “Bourne Street” which I am looking into. notice how long periods of time are omitted between certain key events, such as 1966, BEFORE SITE LICENSING, and then 1992, AFTER THE LICENCE HAD ENDED. The operator at this site was the scandalous Leigh Environmental offshoot, Leigh Land Reclamation Limited. 

The Environment Agency noted the following priceless comment attached to this particular planning application, which is very much a part of the problem.

“Assumption” without any factual scrutiny

• The same goes for local authorities who want to offload land because they are piss poor and have mismanaged money for many years, like Sandwell Council. An example of this is the bent land deal at Friar Park where land has been bolted together with Severn Trent Water’s contaminated shithole remnants that it has not paid a penny to remediate. The land itself is a haven for wildlife and not “brownfield” in any way.

• Severn Trent Water have flogged off many of their former sewage works since privatisation, making over £49 million from the sale yet have relied on the public purse to “clean them up” after this; the days of the corrupt BCDC now merge into the corrupt WMCA- just a different acronym where they steal our money to pay for their own profit giving nothing back. They remain one of the worst environmental polluters in the country. It is even more disgraceful that they are a statutory consultee on planning matters, so may make favourable comments about applications which benefit their own avarice. THEY SHOULD BE STRIPPED OF THIS ROLE.
• A common tactic of those involved in greenwashing by selling land and pretending to increase its biodiversity is the token hedgerow or useless fucking shit like “swales”. These dead end ditches are bollocks, and serve only to collect surface water pollution from polluters like Severn Trent and  others, and probably the contaminants from places built on whose past use has not really been “cleaned up” at all.

Don’t try and tell me this has any nature value FFS. It’s a dirty fucking ditch!

This is where the fun begins………. 😛

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An obscure licence plate tucked away on an out of sight board

Weddell Wynd SL260- another former site licenced area with a contaminated legacy

Should we be concerned about how artificial intelligence may eventually control and replace our lives with that of avatars? This is a hot current debate and one which will continue to unfold as new technology emerges, only limited by the capabilities of human thought. There are now many search tools and websites which write essays, stories and alternate timelines of stories by entering text and prompts.

I am more interested however in visual art and how words can suggest images, and so with this in mind I decided to have a go and enter “Rattlechain Lagoon” to see what AI came up with.

The name itself has always had Scooby Doo connotations , even though the reality is one which probably came from the clanking of rattle chain- a type of chain which drove the workings of the brick factory works as it then was. The picture above imagines a volcanic Middle Earth type world of red mountains and a blue lagoon sea of phosphorescence. I think Bob Ross, or even Blob Phos would be proud of such a painting.  😛

This is a world of no life, of darkest nights with just a hint of breaking dawn, and maybe “a place in which nothing could live.”

Further images from a different site again show more of the phosphine waters and similar landscapes

This Rattlechain lagoon is a lake of fire and spontaneous ignis fatuus.

So long as it stays around this level, and does attempt to control us, I believe this type of thing is fine and is rather cool. There is certainly no doubt that AI provides a more realistic interpretation of Rattlechain lagoon than that of the wild imagination of Rhodia Solvay management, their environmental consultant delusions, and their paid up local political and civil service cocksuckers with their Quaker Garden 15 minute Cities.

We have seen several instances of white phosphorus being used for suicide, and also notorious murders, but the origins of it being used for weapons of war appear to have started with so called “Fenian fire”- Irish republican terrorism from the 1860’s.

In this case, and as a forerunner to the notorious AW bombs, bottles were filled with white phosphorus in a solution of carbon disulphide. When the carbon disulphide evaporated, the phosphorus would burst into flames.

There is no doubt that political terrorism is oxygenated by something which appears harmless but can explosively combust at a particular target, and like the Irish terrorists, in the early part of the Twentieth Century, a particular group of women copied such actions in order to gain the vote, but only for a certain class of women, and we will look more closely at the main protagonists of this, three of the Pankhursts, at the end of this post.

The Suffragette movement was not of one voice. Whilst on one hand there was the non militant National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, run by  “Law-Abiding suffragists” leader Millicent Fawcett, this was not good enough for Emmeline Pankhurst who splintered to pursue her own ego penis envy trip with the  Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU). 

This latter group of big hat wearing virago bints were responsible for arson attacks and indiscriminate criminal damage at targets such as Royal Mail pillar boxes, with the attacks on perceived male institutions bearing the cipher of Edward VII and then latterly George V. It is worth bearing in mind however that a woman had been on the British throne between 1867 and 1901 FFS and yet one wonders if she had lasted a few more years as to what the target would have been then?

Examples of this ill conceived action are recorded in archive newspapers, such as the one below from Guernsey Evening Press and Star 5th February 1913 edition.

Grace Burbidge had been arrested for such a crime of using liquid phosphorus to burn letters in a post box but had been burnt herself in the action- she deserved it.

A pillar box bearing the cipher of Victoria’s son’s reign, Edward VII between 1901-1910.

A George V era letterbox shown by its cipher

Another article from the same paper of 8th April describes phosphorus again being used to target letter boxes on Bournemouth, with then Post Master General Herbert Samuel being mentioned in one scrawled message on the phosphorus package. In context, it is worth noting that this coincided with the detention of Pankhurst Senior for three years on April 2nd. Pankhurst had earlier admitted to targeting the then Chancellor David Lloyd Georges house in a terrorist attack. 

The Brighton Gazette of a day later shows how this campaign was growing around the country- probably because of agitation caused by the WSPU. In Eastbourne, several attacks had been made, with some letters addressed to prominent figures like then Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith as well as Lloyd George again.

As Christmas eve of 1913 dawned, a Brighton Gazette piece noted that the WSPU had cancelled Christmas for some people by destroying letters in Nottingham by phosphorus tubes again being put in boxes. It also shows how innocent individuals just doing their job had been burned by the stupid suffragettes.

The Pankhursts – hypocrites and the establishment

If you think that Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughter Christabel were heroines, then you have a warped and misinformed view of history. THEY DID NOT WIN THE VOTE FOR WOMEN. 

It is a strange thing that those who claim to fight perceived injustices inflicted by the establishment appear to eventually become canonised by that establishment with which they cut a deal. It is also surprising that those self appointed leaders who do so have a false history written for them, with statues and their importance exaggerated by the political establishment through the media. We have seen this with Irish Republican terrorists and their political friends as “men of peace” whilst their innocent victims have never received any justice, like those killed or injured by the  Birmingham Pub bombings for example.

The Liberal pre World War One leadership was obviously not that Liberal enough to allow universal suffrage to women, and most notably, though never usually cited, ALL MEN EITHER. To be clear, Pankhurst and her daughter Christabel were only concerned with the vote for property owning women, and those over the age of 21,  AND NOT ALL WOMEN. Why, because they were not of poor means and like most of a Liberal thinking mindset and champagne socialist Fabians, are complete fucking hypocrites and talk a good talk by using others to get what they really want for themselves. 

The WSPU campaign was not a votes for all women like street whores, but to attain equal rights for “Ladies” with the Gentlemen. It was also not a very democratic organisation, but a top down nepotistic one with the trio of Pankhursts at the head- like all political parties it seems.

But this is not the only hypocrisy with this narcissistic person who has had a false aura painted around her by latter day feminists and liberals who have invented their own perceived emancipation. Before the outbreak of war she deserted her tribe to evade arrest and by touring abroad to give rebel rousing speeches. She even gave an analogy in one in New York about being “a soldier”. FFS! I don’t think breaking windows or setting fires makes you anything but a petty criminal dear.

She was an advocate of The First World War and campaigned for “King and Country” in a conflict which sent millions of men to their deaths in trenches whilst no doubt her and her WSPU sisters treated themselves to a stand up piss with the aristocratic  bourgeois in stoneware urinals miles from any front line. How many widows with fatherless children did WW1 produce? For it is apparent that Emmeline and her daughter Christabel had done a deal with the Government which saw her and her terrorist harridans released from prison. From here, their misanthropy continued with the four feathers movement, shaming working class MEN of fighting age  into joining a pointless war between three Grandsons of the same WOMAN- Queen Victoria with the same type of political propaganda that had been advocated in women planting phosphorus in letter boxes bearing the King’s mark.

Her other daughter Sylvia, resigned from WSPU because of the violent action, and was also against the war to end all wars. Despite being “socialists”, it seems that Emmeline and Christabel were more on the National socialist part of the movement.

All direct action by WSPU stopped at the start of the war in August 1914 whilst their attacks on men continued. After the war the two main antagonists joined the Conservative party, thus establishing themselves as part of the establishment they claimed to be against.

Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst were  clear eugenicists and British Empire Imperialists, who toured Canada after the war spouting crap such as this.

One wonders how these two spiteful women compare with those of low social standing involved in the matchgirls strikes of 1888 and their leaders and how they were burned and disfigured with phossy jaw by the same chemical that the clan Pankhurst advocated posting with gay abandon?

One wonders how many women were burnt by producing phosphorus weapons at Albright and Wilson in WW1 and other factories only to receive some worthless tin medal for their “service”? 

One wonders why it is that the two of them have had statues and a bust erected in their memory within Westminster, and yet the pacifist Sylvia daughter has not?

WHY? Because history is littered with political and manipulative scum like Emmeline Pankhurst purely out for themselves who use a rights issue to whip up tensions until such a time that they cut a deal with their enemies to suit themselves. Historical monuments  infect the present day with the same thinking political people who use them as martyrs to serve their own warped cause and rewritten history that is not deserved. 

Domestic service was a Victorian and Edwardian era social disease. One in three women are believed to have worked in this industry as servants by this time in history, and their “masters” included rogues like Arthur Albright and Samuel Barnett, as I have touched on before.

Life must have been both dire and perilous for such young women, children mainly, and we would call this “modern day slavery” and “exploitation” today. With substances like white phosphorus still being present in a works setting without any safeguards, it appears that it was not just those in the match industry who were victims of such labour.

One such tragic occurrence is recorded in the 21st September 1889 Birmingham Weekly Post and concerns a fifteen year old girl called Harriet Duncombe. 

She lived and worked in service at a farm in Wales and it appears that the family who lived there had a rat problem that they did not want to address. The girl claimed that there were “rats running over her bed” though this was denied.

Harriet is known to have bought rat poison and taken it upon herself to bait some bread, but apparently touched the phosphorus containing substance by hand and would therefore have probably been poisoned by dermal and likely oral contact if she had not washed her hands. On becoming ill she had been admitted to hospital and died one week later.

The inquest recorded death as a result of phosphorus poisoning; just another wasted life and one which we can certainly say was linked to the partnership of Albright and Wilson and their vile manufacture of this lethal substance. In public they preached “suffer not the little children”, but in capitalism they rubbed their hands with glee as they died.

This misadventure, another suicide comes from the Wakefield and West Riding Herald of 15th November 1902. 

Fanny Beck obviously didn’t like life that much in Leicester as as school mistress and took a multitude of poisonous substances including phosphorus and match heads, which would have contained phosphorus given that the sale of those containing the substance was still legal at this time.

Locked up in an asylum after downing the cocktail, she died just a couple of days later. Times were obviously much harder than today yet the obtainable ease of being able to buy this chemical cheaply sadly offered a way out for many who could not cope.

It would take another 61 years before rat poison containing P4 was banned in the UK. 

There has been recent activity at Rattlechain lagoon which may well be the supposed twice yearly “monitoring” by Rhodia/Solvay’s “environmental consultants”. Back in 2013, these were ERM, or Environmental Resources Management, who stated at an open day event concerning the proposed cover up works that they had been given a fifteen year brief with a view to 25 years. I am not sure if this is still in place, as  those who have appeared at the site appear a little coy in revealing for whom they actually work.

An example of this is the use of private cars and hire vans that have been seen at the site, and lack of high vis vest branding.

Water samples were clearly being taken on 8th March from the smaller lagoon as well as marked boreholes in a very wintery scene.

STOP THE BOATS!

Well I suppose its an improvement on those hairy blokes from Heyrman De Roeck who lost their helmets. LOL

And where are they going?

Seems to be connected to an American based firm….curious

Just a day before this however, I observed a dead gull on the causeway path.

So did the contractors remove this, or had Rhodia/Solvay swooped before they arrived?

What is clear, from my monitoring over many years, and long before theirs is that Rhodia/Solvay employees turn up a few weeks ahead of their visits, and one should be very suspicious as to why this happens. Rhodia Solvay are the masters of alchemy and changing chemistry to suit what they want to happen, and the readings that they want to present to regulators and to the gullible public using their “public resource.”

The “public resource” of this website makes me nothing at all in monetary value, is of my own time, to which I am not paid and I am not promoting myself through it for any other purpose other than exposing liars of the chemical industry, to which I have never worked and their paid shills- of which I consider anyone in the employment of this company to be. I can look myself in the mirror each day and every day of the year and say that I do an honest days work without harming anyone or the environment in the process , unlike that which this industry promotes or covers up.

So on  8th February, I noted four employees of Rhodia/Solvay on the site messing around on both the canal, using the route up to there by vehicle, (which I believe has no legal basis for this use),  and also messing around with the pier pump, from which they pump water from the main lake rather than the subsidiary smaller lagoon which has never been remediated or covered with any geotextile, because the purpose of it is to defuse toxic gases from the contents of the other side. They do not state this, but it is the case and why they do not pump from this lagoon as they used to, and where they actually built the pier.

It should also be noted of course, that the smaller lagoon itself is a manmade creation dating from around 1961, and is not separate in any way to the larger lagoon given that it was once one large clay pit to which the toxic waste including white phosphorus was all dumped. These are the type of details of fact checked history which are omitted by Rhodia Solvay because they are inconvenient to their aims and mistuths.

They of course constructed a new pump utilising one of the old pontoons which supported the waste pipe used to pump their deadly contents into the main lake. THEY DON’T WANT PEOPLE TO REMEMBER THIS, BUT THIS “PUBLIC RESOURCE” WILL REMIND PEOPLE OF WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED AT THIS SITE, AND NOT THE LATTERDAY WIDE EYED WONDERMENT INVENTED BULLSHIT CONCERNING “WILDLIFE IMPROVEMENTS”.

Looks like the churn has gone

Come on AL , you can carry it. LOL

I remember a time when they carried off dead birds along the causeway path.

20/4/12- 2 days after the swan had died

No one would have noticed this unless you know what you are looking for, and it is noted that water pumping from this makeshift pump restarted to the canal for several days to a couple of weeks. What is contained within the blue drum, and if there were any chemicals within this which may have altered any readings taken to the water exiting the pipe is open to question, but as I do not trust these bastards under any circumstances due to prior experience, it would not surprise me that lowering the water levels in this way would impact any imminent testing or “monitoring” which they knew was coming from their “independent” consultants.

I noted previously how operatives working for Rhodia had poured chemicals into the smaller lagoon area to change the PH of the water.  

As for the boreholes, two gentlemen were eagerly looking for them up on the canal, marking them with survey poles and even maybe aptly, bottles.

Having seen these boreholes on the canal, they look what can best be described as rather ropey, and I would not pay too much attention as to any accuracy of findings!

There has also been maybe coincidentally, some activity on the Autobase site by a company called Comex 2000, a telecommunications company, though I am naturally suspicious whenever I see any works such as this and any attempt at “masterplanning”.

The “Sandwell plan” consultation has recently ended, and no doubt there will be plenty of bullshit reading to come from that over the next few months to years. Planners at bent Sandwell council and the BCDC usually gave the activities of Albright and Wilson the nod, whilst careful to cover up anything damaging to them, but the W.M Combined Authority version of this in the 2020’s is probably “the brown eyed wink”.  😉

“Monitoring” of this site and the claimed “science” behind it comes from dishonest scientific liars and their “small amounts” of sincerity.  

It comes from a company like Albright and Wilson who lied to their own staff and the communities they despoiled with political support and “regulator” incompetents.

The very waste tipping licence application which Albright and Wilson “scientists” submitted presented a lie of “safety” and that the previous tipping longevity before licensing made it an acceptable practice. This acceptance without any challenge was a long part of the problem before I came along and challenged the lie. White phosphorus in the sediment had not been exposed to air by “natural oxidation” and diminished, it was still there and still toxic in “small amounts”.

In this lagoon, the  waste was dumped and remixed over and over again over many years, and this did not remove the toxic material from the sediment- as evidenced by the swallowed substance present in the dead birds that were systemically poisoned.  In subsequent reports that contractors of this company and even disgracefully, the Rhodia paid scum at the former Health Protection Agency with their fake “human health risk assessment”  , they took a couple of samples and analysed these to then compile “an average” quantity.  You cannot infer any average of a chemical like white phosphorus in the lagoon sediment or water based on a handful of readings taken from scattered point locations and you cannot characterise the amount still present in the lagoon by this failed method . THIS IS FAKE SCIENCE, THE REPORTS ARE KNOWINGLY MISREPRESENTATIVE OF THE TRUTH AND WILL ALWAYS BE CALLED OUT. 

That’s no way to lock the chain!

“REMEMBER PHOSPHORUS ALLOWS NO SECOND CHANCES”

These are the words issued in an Albright and Wilson propaganda video made some time in the early 1990’s, designed for its employees regarding safe handling techniques for this insidious chemical, white phosphorus,  forever linked to all of the activities and waste arisings associated with the Oldbury works, and of course more importantly, all of the bird death poisonings at Rattlechain Lagoon.

The youtube video of this suspiciously disappeared, perhaps when AW/Rhodia/Solvay realised how damaging it was to their then claims about health and safety and the present and future issues that may arise from their abandoned still contaminated sites.

I have since spoken to people who were in their employment at this time, and they tell a very different story to the one promoted in this corporate video nasty, and it seems that if any accident occurred involving this and other toxic substances, they as management could not give a shit, and that went for the union representation as well.

But by the wonders of science, that phosphorus video now has a second chance and is in two parts which slightly overlap on our facebook page .  😛  😛  😛

https://www.facebook.com/rattlechainlagoonWLB/videos/701936318351092/

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