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Chemical Labourers?
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≈≈≈Jenny≈≈≈ | Report | 21 Jul 2006 14:30 |
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Moving on from the Ag Labs -- anyone got any good sources of info or any tidbits about workers in the chemical industry? I come from 5 generations of them and would be interested to find out more about their working conditions. Cheers Jen x |
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Heather | Report | 21 Jul 2006 15:59 |
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Best to try a google search Jennie. |
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≈≈≈Jenny≈≈≈ | Report | 21 Jul 2006 16:25 |
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Thanks Heather - already got some bitsn' bobs it was just a query to see if anyone else had any chem labs in their family! Apparently their working conditions were dreadful - they had to put their bare arms into all sorts of nasty burning stuff. Ouch. I'm almost beginning to wish I had Ag Labs! Cheers Jen |
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Vicky | Report | 21 Jul 2006 19:10 |
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My gt grandfather died of cancer which was most likely caused by the chemicals he was dealing with. He was 50. He was lured away from a clean but poorly-paid job as a Parish Clerk in NW Kent, to the newly set-up petrochemical works in Middlesbrough. Doesn't bear thinking about, the sorts of nasty chemicals they had to deal with. Long before Health & Safety. Although to be fair, with the petrochemical industry in its infancy in those days, the hazardous nature of much of the stuff wouldn't be known. |
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Jeannie | Report | 21 Jul 2006 19:17 |
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Hi there, I've got one! My Thomas Evans Goodchild.....oh no not him again please LOL !! died 1st April 1935 in Bow, East London aged 48 years. 'A Chemical Labourer' COD - Bronchiectasis (no PM) He was my grandfather, and my nan 'swore blind' that this was caused by being gassed in the Great War. Who's to say ? It's a bit like, cancerous growth on the inside is of the lung is lung cancer - cancerous growth on the outside of the lung can be termed as asbestosis..... Rgds, Jeanne |
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