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Please spare a moment to post your messages of
support for the memorial or remembrance of those
lost to asbestos disease.

This memorial is for everyone: How has asbestos
affected you and your loved ones, colleagues,
neighbours?
– Please email a message for the memorial to:
SaveSpoddenValley@hotmail.com

OR

Send your written messages by post to:

INTERNATIONAL ASBESTOS MEMORIAL
c/o SAVE SPODDEN VALLEY CAMPAIGN
185 ROOLEY MOOR ROAD
ROCHDALE
OL12 7EG
UNITED KINGDOM

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Why an International Memorial in Rochdale?

• The Spodden Valley of Rochdale was one of the
  founding sites of the world’s asbestos industry.
  Asbestos was produced at Turner & Newall (T&N)
  from 1879 to the 1990’s.

• The medical term ‘asbestosis’ was first used
  on the death, in 1924, of Rochdale asbestos
  worker Nellie Kershaw. T&N acknowledged
  its first mesothelioma death was in 1936.
  

• The Rochdale factory was studied for the world’s
  first asbestos Regulations in 1931. Questionable
  findings and statistics were used in later,
  controversial, government Regulations.

• T&N’s offices in the Spodden valley of Rochdale
  were the first headquarters of its multinational
  empire. It was also the base for the industry-
  funded ‘Asbestosis Research Council’ that
  helped prolong the use of asbestos. The lives
  of countless people worldwide have been
  affected by decisions once made in the
  Spodden Valley.
  

What happened at Rochdale has been reflected in the attitudes
and tactics used by the asbestos industry world-wide. Their victims
include those exposed mining, transporting and processing
asbestos, using asbestos products and environmentally exposed
to asbestos products.

These photographs may give a small insight into the trail of death
that asbestos has caused in all corners of the world. For decades,
asbestos has killed regardless of race, class, gender or party
politics.

Asbestos, in all its forms, continues to kill -worldwide.

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