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Notes in M J Sanders hands, n.d. Also product specs for Sindanyo non-asbestos heat resisting boards, including samples, and the following sets of photographs:

• black and white photographs showing details of a machine at the WSL with instructions to operate it only when the water is running
• black and white photographs of air pollution measuring equipment and extensive documentation of a suspected asbestos tip
• black and white photograph of an asbestos fume cupboard at WSL
• black and white photograph of tissue cut for analysis (wet, formalin fixed lung tissue, 1.5 grms) and nuclepore filter (pore size 0.2 microns) with gold support grid for carbon film

‘Action’ photos, 1975-1989, 107 colour transparencies; Observations, including commercially published slides, 1972-1992, 58 colour transparencies; Observations (local), 1972-1993, 74 colour transparencies; Observations (Scotland), 1976-1996, 44 colour transparencies; Observations (Torness), December 1988, 8 colour transparencies; Observations (Orkney), including commercially published slides, 1984, 20 colour transparencies; Observations (New York), 1984, 29 colour transparencies; Observations (USA), including commercially published slides, 1982-1984, 47 colour transparencies; America miscellaneous, 1984-1985, 14 colour transparencies; Quirky, 1982-1992, 22 colour transparencies; Garden [George’s garden at Gourock], 1976-1998, 48 colour transparencies; Garden sunsets and rainbows, 1984-1996, 19 colour transparencies; From the window, 1989-1998, 22 colour transparencies; Workshop, 1976-1995, 9 colour transparencies.

Folder entitled 'Press 92/93'

Proofs for book on asbestos entitled ‘We Die as Best We Can’ by Jim Burns.

Correspondence with SPAID trustee Ralph Watson.

Correspondence (some sensitive including claims support records), in response to Jonathan Leake’s article ‘Families on a slow train to tragedy’, Express and Star, 13 January 1994.

Includes

• correspondence (including telephone memoranda) with Leake
• press coverage
• overview of respondents
• correspondence with respondents in alphabetical order by surname

At the time, Jonathan Leake (b.1951) was the industrial and consumer affairs editor of the 'Mail on Sunday'. He had been a reporter at 'Express and Star, Wolverhampton' 1974-1979.

Display board on the case of ?Mr Swallow

Mounted black and white photographs of lung section and of strontium and chrysotile fibres found in lung digest examined using the transmission electron microscope. Also graph of x-ray micro-analysis identifying chrysotile.

Copies of statutory instruments relating to coroners.

Papers and correspondence in response to a call from the National Audit Office to contribute to its study on the Industrial Injuries Scheme.

Includes drafts of SPAID response with extensive attachments, containing information on how the administration of the scheme is failing those who suffered disablement as the result of an industrial accident.

In compiling the SPAID response, sensitive persona data was used, including medical records, information on individual claimants & details on progress of their cases with the Benefits Agency, Medical Appeals Tribunal, etc.

Recording, full transcript and summary of interview by Nigel Ingham, 26 January 2015, with a mesothelioma sufferer. Also 4 family photographs.

In the interview, the interviewee talks in details about the direct experience and impact of having mesothelioma. He also discusses, with contributions from his wife, his upbringing, and married and family life. In describing his work history, he highlights his exposure to asbestos as a young man, and his awareness of asbestos as an owner of a tiling business.

• Abstract of lecture and biography of speaker
• Recording of lecture

Samples of consent forms, to give Nancy Tait permission to access medical records, to represent clients vis-as-vis the Department of Work & Pensions (DWP), to request lung tissue sample for EM analysis, and similar.

Correspondence, 1977-1986, between the Medical Research Council and the Company Medical Adviser of TAC Construction Materials Ltd re a follow-up study of TAC asbestos workers at Rhoose. The study had commenced in 1978. It followed up on an earlier study of 1000 workers conducted in 1962.

Includes a cover note by Michael O'Connor, c.1993.

Correspondence aggregated by trade, namely plasterers, painters and a gas mask worker. Appears to have been extracted from OEDA Case File Series 1.

Correspondence re the legality of second hand sales of asbestos sheets, 1997-2000. Includes extensive excerpts from Hansard report of the parliamentary debate on methods of monitoring asbestos, December 1981, with multiple references to SPAID's work.