Anon.
Anon.
- Panoramic view (three photographs) of the temple complex showing the various gopuras; 84.9 x 22.2 cm
- Gopura next to the Golden Lily Tank; 23.5 x 28.8 cm
- Central shaft and pillars of Kambattadi Mandapa at Minakshi Sundareshvara Temple; 24.1 x 29.2 cm
- Unidentified building, probably showing unfinished gopura east of temple complex; 29.1 x 24.1 cm
Recording of an interview with Alex White in October 1989. Alex White worked in the shipyards in Glasgow from the age of 14 in the 1930s and 1940s. Alex describes the work, tools and processes involved, as well as the working conditions and trade union membership.
Created in 1999, edited October 2020.
'Sir James Stewart Bart'
James Stewart Bart after Alexander Trotter.
Scale unspecified.
Pleural plaque cases from 2004, in alphabetical order (by name of patient).
Includes list of OEDA clients marked 'Pleural plaques notes sent 2005, 2006, 2007' (at front of file). The remainder is mainly information requests from individuals affected by pleural plaques (including from Germany), press coverage naming pleural plaques sufferers, solicitors' correspondence.
At the time a pleural plaque compensation claim (in England and Wales) had to be brought within 3 years from the date of diagnosis (OEDA pleural plaques note, 8 March 2006).
- copy of 'SPAID news', issue 2, c.1980. With an annotated table on how a claimant's address may play a part in deciding whether s/he receives benefits or not
- copy of 'SPAID news', January 1990
- copy of the final issue of 'SPAID news', March 1996, announcing that the organisation had changed its name and expanded its mission beyond industrial disease, to benefit anyone affected e.g. by asthma, Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI), solvents or pesticides, and so forth
Poster reporting on six of the 42 new cases handled by SPAID since October 1983:
- 48 year old maintenance fitter diagnosed with mesothelioma, after only three years occasional contact with asbestos in naval dockyards
- 69 year old mesothelioma patient who worked for Turner & Newall, Manchester, for one year, 30 years ago
- 48 year old mesothelioma patient who came in contact with asbestos during an apprenticeship with ICI, likewise 30 years ago
- 42 year old former merchant seaman and cargo inspector at Plymouth docks, on severe pain medication for his mesothelioma
- 45 year old electrical engineer diagnosed with mesothelioma
- legend explaining two photographs (marked D11 at the back)
- two photographs, mounted (marked B 36 at the back): (A) thin section of lung tissue as seen in the Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM), (B) asbestos fibres inside the nucleus of an interstitial cell
Display boards visualising the rise of mesothelioma deaths 1968-1979 and 1968-1982, including the proportion awarded industrial death benefit.
Missing both SPAID and OEDA label.