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Recording of White Lung Association ‘We have a right to breath’.

Recording of Yorkshire Television documentary transmitted 20 July 1982.

2 copies.

Recording of 'First Tuesday: the legacy of asbestos’, reportedly a Yorkshire Television documentary six years after 'Alice - a fight for life'.

One of the copies is inscribed 'Armley | First Tuesday. | The Legacy of Asbestos (Refers to Alice - A Fight For Life, six years ago) | 19'.

May be the same as or a sequel/prequel of 'First Tuesday: too close to home', broadcast 6 December 1988, which told the story of the Armley community where mortality from mesothelioma was unusually high due to exposure to asbestos dust from J W Roberts factory, which had closed in 1958.

2 copies.

Correspondence. Somewhat sketchy.

Containing 4 pp. of manuscript notes and diagrams by Patrick Geddes on occupations.

Paper and correspondence. Includes

• correspondence with HSC/HSE and press releases, 2000-2001, re guidance on controlling risks from exposure to asbestos, launch of proposals & initiatives to protect workers at risk from contracting asbestos related disease, etc
• correspondence 1993 re authentication of Factory Inspectorate letters on ‘asbestos insulation aboard ships’, 1945
• correspondence re and lists of contractors for asbestos removal 1991-1992
• HSE consultative document on personal protective equipment, ?1992, and guidance notes on protective equipment c.1981-1990
• HSE news release ‘The British approach to control of health hazards in the workplace’, 4 April 1979
• typescript of Miss L A Pittom (formerly HSE) ‘Legislative control of toxic hazards: the approach in the UK’, address given at the BOHS annual conference 1979, dated 4 April 1979
• photocopy of ‘British Standard Specification for canister respirators (‘gas masks’) and dust respirators (‘dust masks’)' 1954 and some subsequent amendments

Letter in support of Mr Lawrie Charles Hawkins.

• printout of digital inventory of medical reports, A[...]-D[...], 2005, capturing case number, surname, date of medical report, author of report, diagnosis (pleural plaques, D1, D3, D8, D9)
• typescript inventory of medical reports A[...]-L[...], c.1991, capturing full name, doctor's name, date of report, summary of opinion, smoker, comments
• copy of medical glossary notes (Blesovky's syndrome, Denver shunt, fibrosis), extract from a report by Dr Robin Rudd on the risk following pleural plaques
• correspondence and papers on access to medical records and data protection
• specimen medical reports

Correspondence and papers, itemised, re new shipbuilding regulations. Includes many draft versions of the regulations. Also covers asbestosis statistics and meetings of the Scottish Insulating Engineers' Association.

Continues a similar series (1944-1950) that forms part of the Nancy Tait - Michael O'Connor correspondence. See link below.

Correspondence and papers re continuation of grant through the London Boroughs Grant Scheme and London Boroughs Grant Unit (LBGU) decision that SPAID must undergo a management review.

Includes

• correspondence with SPAID trustees, agenda of meeting of SPAID trustees 26 April 1990, minutes of meetings of SPAID trustees 5 December 1989 and 1 June 1989
• summaries of problems in interactions with LBGU

Correspondence and papers re continuation of grant through London Boroughs Grant Scheme.

Correspondence and papers re continuation of grant through London Boroughs Grant Scheme.

Correspondence and papers re continuation of grant through the London Boroughs Grant Scheme, decision to terminate the grant, appeal against the decision.

Contains letters in support of SPAID / OEDA, correspondence and papers re SPAID / OEDA campaign March 1995 to get support from MPs to solve the organisation's funding crisis and to renew their efforts to highlight asbestos problems through Parliamentary Questions. Nancy Tait also considered using BBC South's programme ‘First sight: a handful of dust' (16 March 1995) in support of her appeal against LBG's decision to terminate the grant.

Includes photocopies of press coverage on women 'who fight the dust that kills', 1976.

Correspondence and papers re continuation of grant through the London Boroughs Grant Scheme. Includes copy of 'Business plan E.M. Project 1996-1999', which proposed an expansion of the extant Electron Microscope Unit.

Correspondence and papers re continuation of grant through the London Boroughs Grant Scheme. Includes anonymised printout of special interest cases from OEDA case database, 1 July 1997, and copy of grant application, 1 November 1996.