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Just a quick return to the original subject, L&B. I passed the site today and of course it's just clay and mud now. The roads are being marked out and drains laid ready for the building to commence.
Whilst I am deeply sad at the old place's demise, at least it has prevented more of our countryside being given over to new housing estates, something that is dear to my heart.
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And now houses are beginning to appear. Just a few close to the Wheelton Lane side of the site about 30 or 40 yards away from Golden Hill Lane.
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Who would buy a house on that site adjacent to Fishwick`s garage? The sound of engines running at all hours will not be pleasant. Maybe they have planned some sound screening?
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Most of the houses are well away from any Fishwick's noise. I would rather say who in their right mind would buy a house where asbestos, cyanide, and various toxic chemicals have been dumped? Not that I am suggesting they have been dumped there , of course.
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Noel, Having worked in the asbestos industry, and seen the subsequent furore about the presence of asbestos in the community - has anyone considered that every time the car driver applied his brakes, he released a minute quantity of asbestos into the atmosphere, as his brakes wore away. The garage mechanic blew out the "dust" from the brake drums, (asbestos and resins) the housewife with her asbestos pad on her ironing board, fire blankets etc. The Industry took steps in the 1970`s to reduce the content in their products - but far too late. Don`t talk about it and it will go away - it will not! It can lie dormant for thirty years or more before it rears its ugly head, the killer in our midst. We talk about burying nuclear waste and forgetting about it for the half=life span - but we also have buried asbestos in old mine workings, to be discovered in years to come, it cannot be destroyed. Sorry for the "band-wagon" approach, but we did our best in the late 70`s to produce "asbestos free" friction material, successfully I hope. But our European colleagues were still producing friction material material using asbestos, lead and antimony, whilst issuing Directives to us saying its use was to be stopped. Those products came here in prestige cars without question. I took part in a study in Germany on the Production methods there versus British methods, the brief was to discover why they were better than we were. The conclusions reached jointly were that they were prepared to work harder, scant regard for safety at work, employed "Turkish" labour for cheapness, with an attitude that there were plenty more where they came from who were happy to work under those conditions. Our reward for the study - transfer of our work to Germany, with redundancy for all. Sorry I`ve gone on a lot, but the mention of asbestos raises my hackles very much, anyone with the time should study the history of the Industry and reflect on what has been done about it. W.R.
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Times have moved on and we are much more conscious of health aspects and safety at work.
But what about the unregulated workers in sweat houses or dare I say it cockle picking in Morecambe Bay.
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Noel, I have had experience of the working practices in some of our technically developed countries, which, being out of sight were deemed to be acceptable. Their products are first class, their care for the "hidden" worker was abyssmal.
These countries in their wisdom, are trying to pass on other practises such as early morning exercise sessions, furniture arrangements, food preparation and the like, but go beneath the surface and be horrifed.
We copy Scandinavian countries and hold them as an example of good living, But go there and see the way the "hidden" workers are treated, go below the surface, and be ashamed. A lifetime of experience has given me an insight into way the lower classes are treated, by people we regard as " a good example". Been there and seen it. W.R.
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I worked at l&b in the face piece department, making gas masks.
about 1969. it was very hot, we were on the top floor
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my brother did he was a electrition
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