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Display board with reproduction of floor plan of the SPAID Electron Microscope Research Unit (EMU), November 1987, and colour photographs of EMU equipment. Also features the EM technician, presumably Lawrie Hawkins.

The board is labelled 'OEDA', which would date it 1993 or after. However, it looks as if this was not the original labelling.

Board showing mainly fibres under the ?electron microscope, from crocidolite, amosite, anthophyllite and chrysotile asbestos to glass micro-fibre, aluminium silicate, ceramic fibre, rock wool, glass wool, slag wool, carbon fibre and human hair.

Photocopy of letter to SPAID from Cleveland Constabulary, 1983, re asbestos free brake linings and pads. Mounted and captioned 'Asbestos free brakes'.

A4 size address book of cases (name / address / disease).

Marked up using the following colour code:

• red: SPAID/OEDA asbestos-related case register
• green: claim no longer proceeding
• brown: pre-employment medical taken little notice of
• blue + pink: claim started + settled – length of time taken

Red notebook, previously used to list history of science literature c.1900-1960. Repurposed to record names, occasionally also addresses, of individuals with some asbestos affiliation (suffering from an asbestos-related disease, related to a victim, worried about asbestos in the home, etc.). It is unclear whether the compilation is based solely on SPAID clients or whether it also includes cases that came to the organisation's attention solely through media reports and similar.

Ordered by first letter of surname.

Board bearing this caption, with four black and white photographs arranged to reproduce one single view through the microscope.

'UICC chrysotile standard' presumably refers to Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) reference chrysotile. Not all types of chrysotile appear to have the same capacity to cause mesothelioma.

• Cases, 1982-1988: incidental case correspondence

Mounted drawing of ground floor office space at Mitre House, 66 Abbey Road, Enfield, with photographic documentation.

This appears to have been produced by Architects' Co-Partnership (ACP) of Potters Bar, the architectural firm commissioned by SPAID.

Photocopy of Federal Register (30 October 1987), EPA, 40 CFR Part 763. Includes a note by Nancy Tait to L Hawkins and J B Kirkham, 17 December 1989, and heavy annotations re "counting of environmental monitoring samples by TEM".

Brian Kirkham, an expert on electron microscopy, was based at the Biological Electron Microscope Unit, Queen Mary College, and at the London Chest Hospital. In the early days of the SPAID Electron Microscope (EM) Unit, SPAID retained Kirkham as an EM consultant. He also trained SPAID's subsequent EM expert Lawrie Hawkins.

'TEM' stands for Transmission Electron Microscopy / Microscope.

Correspondence with GMBATU Health & Safety officers (in particular David Gee), and papers. Includes:

• questionnaire for survey of health hazards and chemical substances in the food industry 1986
• typescript summarising GMBATU's take on R Doll & J Peto (1985) ‘Asbestos: effects on health of exposure to asbestos - the risk of asbestos in buildings’ (Doll/Peto Report)
• typescript summarising GMBATU's view of the consultative document (1985) ‘Control of asbestos at work: draft regulations and draft approved code of practice’
• typescript article ‘How self-regulation fails to protect workers – the asbestos story’ (1984)
• GMBATU (1984) ‘Progress report on fibrous dust campaign 1980-1984’
• drafts of HSE leaflet on asbestos brake linings, 1984
• draft GMBATU guide (1984) ‘The extent and characteristics of asbestos diseases – a guide for doctors, solicitors, union officials & exposed workers’ (1984)
• draft GMBATU 'TIE pamphlet', 1984; TIE being thermal insulation engineers, also known as laggers
• typescript GMBATU (1984) 'Draft TUC leaflet on asbestos'
• press coverage
• a little case correspondence

Display board featuring colour photographs of diseased organs: mesothelioma, lung cancer, asbestosis - pleural thickening.

Table of cases 1-411 (2 January 1986-21 March 1986) and 1-58 (2 June 1987-6 September 1987), largely in chronological order.

Capturing name, disease, date contacted SPAID, solicitor (name and date contacted), SMB (Special Medical Board) decision awarded/refused, notice to appeal given (ACK), appeal papers received, SPAID's submission sent, hearing date, comments. Of these, columns chiefly used are the first 3-4 and the last.

Includes inscription (on cardboard backing): 'Overseas cases on the back of sheet one' and 'Donations to be invited also 1986-1987'.

Photocopy of Federal Register (25 February 1987), EPA, 40 CFR Part 763.

Copy of the publication, by the Asbestos Institute / Institut de l'amiante [1986].