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When the big vat was installed the company bought to screen it. These were planted by the Primary school children, with their names on brass plaques. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ange Gay talking about childhood memories of the works
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Joseph Barby talks about the works
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It is said that during the Gulf War, the many RAF practice flights over the area were using the Oxide works chimneys as a landmark for turning. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Once a worker fell in the and spent some time rotating around it, clinging onto the paddle. It's said that his fellow workers, on seeing a pair of yellow glasses going round the vat, ran off in fright. Happily he was finally rescued | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
often covered clothes on the washing line and even a baby in the pram in a garden. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sir Gordon Roberts talks about the works | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lesley Marshall talks about scrap metal | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lesley Marshall talks about Vat Chat | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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