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Correspondence and papers re National Health & Safety conference organised by Essential Safety, Southend-on-Sea, 8 November 2002.

Includes copy of Nancy Tait's presentation slides on asbestos-related health and safety risks.

Correspondence re presentations by Nancy Tait at two NASUWT meetings in Birmingham, 10 June 1996 and 14 November 1996.

Includes SPAID flier and leaflets and NASUWT booklet on bullying in the workplace (1996), also correspondence re NASUWT donation to OEDA 2004.

NASUWT (National Association of Schoolmasters / Union of Women Teachers) is the career teachers’ trade union.

Copy of program and a few other papers relating to the xixth International Congress on Occupational Health ‘Organisational and Social Aspects of Occupational Health’, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, 25-30 September 1978.

Includes abstract of joint presentation by Nancy Tait and patient activist Jean Robinson on the inadequacies of then present methods of compiling statistics for occupational disease and on how regulations governing the award of industrial injury benefits inhibit the investigation of occupational risks that affect workers and their families.

Jean Robinson (b. 1930, née Lynch) was one of the original SPAID trustees. She was a patient activist and had been a member of several patient groups when she became the chair of the Patients Association in 1973. In 1979 she became a lay member of the General Medical Council (GMC).

Copy of brochure, originally comb-bound, containing the following seminar papers:

• William Evans (partner at Dibb Lupton Broomhead) 'The future for claims covered by insurance'
• Phil Bell (liability insurance manager, Sun Alliance) 'Lessons learned by underwriters?'

Two further presentation - Prof. Julian Peto on 'The future incidence and causes of asbestos related disease' and Prof. Andrew Newman-Taylor on 'The increase in the incidence of asthma and implications for the future' - are missing.

Papers and correspondence (including telephone memoranda) re Westminster Council's management of the Elgin Estate (Chantry and Hermes Points), in particular whether the Council took appropriate action in response to information about asbestos at the blocks and complaints from people who lived in them. Includes

• documentation of local campaigning subsequent to the Barratt report (see below), including a discussion between former tenants and Dr Julian Peto, February 1997
• copy of John Barratt (24 January 1996) ‘Report of a documentary review into the use by Westminster Council of Hermes and Chantry Points, Elgin Estate, Westminster, for housing purposes, given the presence of asbestos' ("Barratt Report")
• copies of Westminster Council papers (including minutes), relating to the management of the estate 1983-1991
• copies of 'WECH [Walterton & Elgin Community Homes] News', 1996 and earlier

The Barratt report coincided with a press conference to launch the 'Asbestos hazards handbook', at which Nancy Tait was one of five invited speakers.

Correspondence with and papers and correspondence relating to Sir Richard Doll and his research.
Richard Doll was a doctor and pioneering researcher with a particular focus on lung cancer. Doll published the first research showing the link between smoking and lung cancer. Nancy Tait and SPAID did not always agree with Doll's research findings and sometimes disputed his calculations in relation to the environmental risk from asbestos.

Papers include:
-copies of Richard Doll articles and research
-copies of some articles by Richard Doll and Julian Peto
-reports and papers about SPAID's comments on Doll's research
-correspondence and copies of correspondence with Richard Doll about his research
-handwritten notes commenting on Doll's research
-statistics on asbestos-related deaths
-copies of press clippings mentioning Doll's research
-correspondence about interactions with Richard Doll
-a transcript of 'smoke gets in your eyes' 'Brass Tacks' BBC programme, 17 November 1987
-correspondence about US and Canadian research on asbestos
-correspondence with newspapers about misleading articles
-correspondence contradicting Doll's research into asbestos in break linings
-correspondence discussing the shortcomings of Doll and Peto's report: 'Asbestos- Effects on Health of Exposure to Asbestos- the Risk from Asbestos in Buildings', 1985.

Response to a request for information from Mr B Zapata, 1987.

Includes copy minutes, agendas and correspondence of the trustees of the Proposed University of East Stirlingshire Trust Fund, and the first report of the Academic Planning Board of Stirling University.

Recording and transcript of Rebekah Russell in conversation with Mary McAleese on 8 October 2014. Mary (May) McAleese was born 7/08/33 in Townhead, Castle Street. She grew up in Provanmill. she attended primary school in Provanmill and the St Enoch Secondary School. She worked in a tailors after leaving school; a pub and in 2 hospitals as an Auxiliary nurse. her husband was an electric welder and lost his job. At time of interview May lived in Riddrie in sheltered housing.

Time-coded summary

[00:00:00] Introductions.
[00:00:25] Talks about place of birth and where she grew up.
[00:01:01] Tells where she went to primary and secondary school and that she enjoyed school.
[00:01:22] Informs that first job was in a tailoring works for children’s wear.
[00:01:42] Tells that during the period 1960 - 1990 worked first in Robroyston Hospital and then in Stobhill hospital as Auxiliary nurse and had 2 children, working part-time as a working mother.
[00:02:36] Remarks on taking time off to have children and thereafter working part-time.
[00:02:58] Mentions also having worked for a time in a bar at Townhead.
[00:03:18] Briefly mentions balancing home life with part-time working hours, not starting work till 4pm.
[00:03:38] Comments that managed to move job to another public house when the one they were working in closed down during this period. Tells that income from 2nd job in family allowed for holidays.
[00:04:15] Tells that husband lost job as welder in shipyards as younger employees entered workforce with additional skills and training such as undersea welding.
[00:04:48] Anecdote about husband’s relationship to employer upon redundancy.
[00:05:18] Remarks that after redundancy husband took unwell with heart trouble and retired.
[00:05:27] Describes average day in family home. Would go out to work when son came home from school, then later husband would return from work.
[00:06:07] Remarks that there were no health problems in family during period in question.
[00:06:19] Describes that area seems more depressed now than when husband lost his job. That she both enjoyed working and the financial benefit it brought family.
[00:07:12] Agrees that there is an idea that women are mothers first and workers second.
[00:07:23] Explains had always worked before getting married and having children so going out to work as a mother was not new.
[00:07:49] Describes convenience of living in parent’s home when first married.
[00:08:11] Tells that she does not live in Springburn but in Riddrie in sheltered housing not far from Alive & Kicking project.
[00:08:48] Tells of being taken into hospital early towards end of 2nd pregnancy.
[00:09:22] Remarks that worked part-time as mother to also be at home with children.
[00:09:44] Tells that was still working when husband retired.
[00:09:55] Comments that had to adapted to retirement when she and husband no longer able to work.
[00:10:03] Remarks that feels situation for people in Springburn seems more depressing now than in period when factories closed down.
[00:10:56] Mentions she feels for the impact of factory closures on others in Springburn and families.
[00:11:31] Tells of how she sees a deterioration in Springburn as a community.
[00:11:51] Comments that she considered her family better off than some as husband had good job and she contributed an additional income.
[00:12:28] Tells that husband was well paid as an electric welder before losing job. Comments that 17 years old grandson cannot find employment as electrician.
[00:13:35] Tells that children were fortunate in finding employment in area and considers it harder now even for people with degrees.
[00:14:25] Tells of enjoying the personal and social benefits her additional income provided. Praises Alive & Kicking project for providing social life after feeling depressed following being widowed in 2007. Considers it harder for younger generation to bring up families now.

Recording and transcript of Elaine Allison in conversation with Rory Stride in 2018. Elaine worked at Templeton’s carpet factory from 1968 to 1973 and Fraser & Borthwick from 1974 to 1975. She worked at Charles Buyers and Company [Inverness] from 1993 to 2017.

[00:00:02] Introductions.
[00:00:14] Describes early childhood.
[00:00:57] Describes skills for her job at Templeton’s, different roles within the company, staff camaraderie and wages.
[00:08:55] Describes factory working conditions, health and safety, breaks, staff canteen, staff contentment, training.
[00:13:45] Describes staff camaraderie, relationship with management and overtime.
[00:18:19] Describes trade unions, injuries and medical treatment.
[00:21:06] Discussion about staff social events and day trips, the different factories owned by Templeton’s.
[00:25:38] Describes staff friendships.
[00:28:35] Summarises reasons for leaving Templeton’s.
[00:31:30] Describes role at Templeton’s supermarket and at Fraser & Borthwick.
[00:33:01] Describes role at Charles Buyers and Company, public perception of the company, differences between Charles Buyers and Company and Templeton’s, and retirement.
[00:39:12] Reflects on the closure of Templeton’s in 1981, reasons for the closure.
[00:41:27] Discusses the modernisation of the Templeton building, companies using the building in 2018.
[00:41:54] Summarises final thoughts about working for Templeton’s and staff pride.
[00:45:53] Discusses the study of Glasgow’s industrial history with regard to women.
[00:47:35] Discusses commemorating the building and the workers.
[00:50:39] Describes medical problems and treatment at Templeton’s.
[00:53:32] Interview concludes.

Recording and transcript of a former worker of Templeton's & Co. in conversation with Rory Stride in July 2018. The interviewee worked at Templeton’s carpet factory from 1958 to 1967 and went on to work in various school canteens between 1983 and 2010.

[00:00:02] Introductions.
[00:00:18] Describes childhood.
[00:01:10] Describes working at Templeton’s, interview process, skills needed for the role, wage breakdown and pensions, different factory locations.
[00:11:54] Describes staff camaraderie, social events.
[00:17:14] Describes health, safety and noise levels.
[00:20:44] Describes staff working conditions, holidays and trips with fellow workers.
[00:23:07] Describes relationship between management and staff, medical team.
[00:24:44] Discusses trade unions.
[00:26:28] Describes gender divisions in factory roles and management.
[00:28:09] Describes staff friendships.
[00:30:57] Describes reasons for leaving Templeton’s.
[00:35:22] Describes life after leaving Templeton’s, casual work at a carousel.
[00:40:49] Describes role as a canteen worker in different local schools.
[00:45:58] Discusses the differences between working at Templeton’s, the carousel and school canteen work.
[00:47:30] Talks about the closure of Templeton’s.
[00:48:50] Discusses commemorating the building and the workers.
[00:51:05] Describes uniform at Templeton’s and different generations working at Templeton’s together.
[00:54:54] Summarises final thoughts about working for Templeton’s.
[01:00:22] Talks about staff pride in Templeton’s
[01:01:03] Discusses the study of Glasgow’s industrial history with regard to women.
[01:03:22] Discusses memories of working for Templeton’s.
[01:05:02] Interview concludes.

A set of course unit packs produced by staff of the University of Strathclyde and staff of the government-sponsored Scottish Further Education Unit, and funded by the Department of Education, Strathclyde Regional Council. The packs contain materials to support the Certificate/Diploma in Adult Guidance course offered in the Faculty of Education, University of Strathclyde.
The Certificate/Diploma course programme comprised 24 units (seven core units and 17 elective units) covering different areas of adult guidance. It was devised as a staff development package for those working with adults in broadly educational settings (in colleges, community education, the careers service and in secondary schools). The units were accredited, with completion of the seven core units plus a total of six elective units leading to the Diploma in Adult Guidance, awarded by the University of Strathclyde. Each unit pack consists of a unit descriptor, a delivery overview, assessment guidelines, resource materials (including information sheets and activity sheets), assessment sheets and a unit evaluation form.
Note: this set is incomplete, lacking two of the seven core unit packs (those missing are 'Counselling Skills' and 'Organisational Guidance Policy (Double Unit)').

Core Unit Packs:

• Interviewing Skills
• Information Systems
• New Technology and Computer-Assisted Guidance
• Quality Assurance in Guidance
• Guidance Networks

Elective Unit Packs:

• Guidance and Marketing
• Pre-Entry and Induction Guidance
• Pre-Exit Guidance
• Guidance and Staff Development
• Guidance for Adults with Disabilities or Learning Difficulties
• Performance Indicators and Output Measures in Guidance
• Recognition and Accreditation of Prior Learning
• Equal Opportunities
• The Management of Adult Guidance
• Guidance for Minority Ethnic Clients
• Accrediting Work-Based Learning
• Guidance and Tutoring
• On-Going Guidance and Learning Support
• Vocational/Careers Guidance
• Adult Guidance in the Secondary School
• Community-Based Guidance
• Customer Care and Student Services

• Article by Rankin Taylor entitled 'Hotel School in Scotland', in Hotel Management, volume 20, number 1 (January 1949), pp.41-43
• Article by J. Wilson Hawthorn entitled 'Learning the "Inns" and "Outs"', in Illustrated, 26 February 1949, pp.27-29
• Article by John Kerr entitled 'Scotland's School for Hoteliers', in Scotland's Magazine, volume 53, number 5 (May 1957), pp.8-12 (2 xerox copies)

Two survey forms devised by Professor Udo Schlentrich and [Senior Lecturer] Anthony V. Seaton of the Scottish Hotel School for a study on the family vacation choices of international holidaymakers. One form was designed to be completed by parents, and the other by children.

Set of three diagrams illustrating the correct placing of cutlery, crockery and other table items for breakfast service, luncheon service and banquet cover.