https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2025/10/asbestosis.html [jd] jack of diamonds Life viewed from London E3 diamond geezer >> email me Monday, October 20, 2025 >> follow me on twitter >> follow the blog on This monument popped up in the Twitter middle of Barking recently. >> follow the blog on RSS I thought it was very recently but it was actually unveiled in April >> my flickr photostream 2022 and I'm just not very observant. twenty blogs our bow [asbesto] arseblog ian visits It says "In Memory of those who lost londonist their lives because of exposure to broken tv asbestos". blue witch on london And it's here because Barking has the great wen one of the highest rates of edith's streets asbestos-related deaths in the spitalfields life country. linkmachinego round the island In 1913 the Cape Asbestos Company wanstead meteo built a huge asbestos factory beside christopher fowler the River Roding in Barking. The the greenwich wire company mined asbestos-bearing rock bus and train user at several sites in South Africa, ruth's coastal walk then shipped them in sacks to a round the rails we go private quay in Barking for london reconnections processing. Hundreds of people were from the murky depths employed to mill the ore into usable fibres and then process these into quick reference features lagging, packaging, pipes, resins, Things to do in Outer boards and all forms of insulation London widely used in the building trade. Things to do outside London They worked without masks or other London's waymarked walks protection, the dangers of asbestos Inner London toilet map either unknown or not thought worth 20 years of blog series bothering about. And hundreds of The DG Tour of Britain workers died, often many years London's most... later, of insidious chronic respiratory disease. read the archive Oct25 Sep25 I found a 32-page booklet published Aug25 Jul25 Jun25 May25 by Cape Asbestos in the days before Apr25 Mar25 Feb25 Jan25 blue asbestos was recognised as Dec24 Nov24 Oct24 Sep24 dangerous and banned, which was as Aug24 Jul24 Jun24 May24 late as 1985. It shows workers with Apr24 Mar24 Feb24 Jan24 rolled-up sleeves and women leaning Dec23 Nov23 Oct23 Sep23 over unshielded machines, all Aug23 Jul23 Jun23 May23 potentially inhaling enough fibres Apr23 Mar23 Feb23 Jan23 to ultimately kill them. I read Dec22 Nov22 Oct22 Sep22 reports about the local school in Aug22 Jul22 Jun22 May22 Barking, barely 100 metres away, Apr22 Mar22 Feb22 Jan22 saying that the playground was often Dec21 Nov21 Oct21 Sep21 covered in fine dust which children Aug21 Jul21 Jun21 May21 rolled up and played with as if it Apr21 Mar21 Feb21 Jan21 were snow. I read that mesothelioma Dec20 Nov20 Oct20 Sep20 was so common in the area it was Aug20 Jul20 Jun20 May20 known as the 'Barking Cough'. These Apr20 Mar20 Feb20 Jan20 were different times, but times that Dec19 Nov19 Oct19 Sep19 linger on. Aug19 Jul19 Jun19 May19 Apr19 Mar19 Feb19 Jan19 Cape Asbestos's plant eventually Dec18 Nov18 Oct18 Sep18 closed in 1968 and in its place was Aug18 Jul18 Jun18 May18 built the Harts Lane council estate, Apr18 Mar18 Feb18 Jan18 which is still not the loveliest Dec17 Nov17 Oct17 Sep17 corner of Barking. It included two Aug17 Jul17 Jun17 May17 tall tower blocks called Colne House Apr17 Mar17 Feb17 Jan17 and Mersey House, both of which Dec16 Nov16 Oct16 Sep16 Barking & Dagenham council would now Aug16 Jul16 Jun16 May16 like to demolish. This is chiefly Apr16 Mar16 Feb16 Jan16 because they're old and covered in Dec15 Nov15 Oct15 Sep15 combustible cladding, but the Aug15 Jul15 Jun15 May15 additional complications of Apr15 Mar15 Feb15 Jan15 potentially disturbing polluted land Dec14 Nov14 Oct14 Sep14 puts any remediation out of Aug14 Jul14 Jun14 May14 financial reach. It's always the Apr14 Mar14 Feb14 Jan14 insulation you have to watch out Dec13 Nov13 Oct13 Sep13 for. Aug13 Jul13 Jun13 May13 Apr13 Mar13 Feb13 Jan13 [asbest] Dec12 Nov12 Oct12 Sep12 Aug12 Jul12 Jun12 May12 The memorial in Barking Town Square Apr12 Mar12 Feb12 Jan12 comprises a polished chunk of blue Dec11 Nov11 Oct11 Sep11 pearl granite and was unveiled on Aug11 Jul11 Jun11 May11 Workers' Memorial Day 2022 in a Apr11 Mar11 Feb11 Jan11 ceremony attended by several trade Dec10 Nov10 Oct10 Sep10 unionists and representatives of the Aug10 Jul10 Jun10 May10 London Asbestos Support Awareness Apr10 Mar10 Feb10 Jan10 Group. The emphasis is partly on Dec09 Nov09 Oct09 Sep09 remembrance and partly on the Aug09 Jul09 Jun09 May09 importance of standing up for Apr09 Mar09 Feb09 Jan09 workers' rights to make conditions Dec08 Nov08 Oct08 Sep08 better for all. As the inscription Aug08 Jul08 Jun08 May08 says, "Remember the Dead and Fight Apr08 Mar08 Feb08 Jan08 for the Living". Dec07 Nov07 Oct07 Sep07 Aug07 Jul07 Jun07 May07 My grandfather worked for another Apr07 Mar07 Feb07 Jan07 Cape Asbestos plant on Tolpits Lane Dec06 Nov06 Oct06 Sep06 in Watford. Originally it had been Aug06 Jul06 Jun06 May06 run by Universal Asbestos Apr06 Mar06 Feb06 Jan06 Manufacturing but in 1967 the Dec05 Nov05 Oct05 Sep05 factory was acquired by Cape as part Aug05 Jul05 Jun05 May05 of a diversification into Apr05 Mar05 Feb05 Jan05 cement-based products. They made Dec04 Nov04 Oct04 Sep04 corrugated roofing, flat sheets, Aug04 Jul04 Jun04 May04 decorated sheets, slates, soil Apr04 Mar04 Feb04 Jan04 pipes, decking for flat roofs and Dec03 Nov03 Oct03 Sep03 reinforced troughing - that kind of Aug03 Jul03 Jun03 May03 thing - the asbestos moulded into a Apr03 Mar03 Feb03 Jan03 multiplicity of shapes for the Dec02 Nov02 Oct02 Sep02 benefit of the building trade. back to main page [uam] the diamond geezer index 2024 2023 2022 To him Cape Universal was just a 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 convenient place to work, a short 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 walk across the moor for a day's 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 shift and then home again for tea. 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 He worked there for many years, from the 1930s to the 1960s, rising my special London features through the ranks from a labourer to a-z of london museums a machine operator on the factory E3 - local history month floor. On his death certificate his greenwich meridian (N) occupation was listed as 'Asbestos greenwich meridian (S) Moulder', and it was very much a the real eastenders premature death because this didn't london's lost rivers end well. olympic park 2007 great british roads I don't remember very much about my oranges & lemons grandfather because he died when I random boroughs was 8. I know he was there when I bow road station took my first steps in his back high street 2012 garden and I can remember sitting at river westbourne his dining room table and hoping trafalgar square nobody would force me to eat the capital numbers celery. My final memory is being led east london line up to his bedroom, I suspect not lea valley walk long before his death, to see an ill olympics 2005 old man laid out in bed and regent's canal struggling to breathe. I don't know square routes what was said, nor how short a time silver jubilee I stayed in his presence, indeed my unlost rivers strongest recollection is of the cube routes room itself with its austere Herbert Dip cupboards and the curtains drawn. metro-land And then at the age of 67 he was capital ring gone. river fleet piccadilly My family fought for asbestosis to bakerloo be recognised as his cause of death but were not successful. I've read ten of my favourite posts recently of fellow workers working the seven ages of blog at the Tolpits Lane factory now my new Z470xi mobile getting six figure payouts in five equations of blog compensation, indeed it's hard to the dome of doom research this topic without ending chemical attraction up on legal websites with popups quality & risk urging you to make a claim. Even london 2102 four decades after the factory's single life closure there are still employees boredom severely affected, and many more april fool already passed, as the toxic legacy endures. The factory site is now a ten sets of lovely photos rather cleaner industrial estate and my "most interesting" business park, indeed it's where the photos National Lottery's been based for london 2012 olympic zone the last 30 years because risk and harris and the hebrides loss are still in play. betjeman's metro-land marking the meridian [allwy] tracing the river fleet london's lost rivers Today my Dad reaches the grand old inside the gherkin age of 87, a full 20 years more than seven sisters his father lived. Science has moved iceland on a long way since the 1970s, also educational opportunities and also just surfed in? workers' rights. Health and safety here's where to find... is sometimes much derided but it can diamond geezers genuinely save lives, even much flash mob #1 #2 #3 #4 extend them, rather than everyone ben schott's miscellany continually moaning about additional london underground costs and annoying procedures. If watch with mother someone had shouted earlier and cigarette warnings louder about the dangers of asbestos digital time delay I might have known my grandfather wheelie suitcases better, my grandmother could have war of the worlds had many more years of married life transit of venus and my father could have had a top of the pops father for much longer. old buckenham ladybird books My Dad lost his Dad at the age of acorn antiques 34, which is no age at all in the digital watches grand scheme of things. 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