Westwood Mine Cold War Chemical Testing Pics & PDF

[Derelict-UK]

Sooooo, I have spent the last couple of days buried in files in the National Archives in London.

Originally I went down to research a local company I plan on doing a case study on which will include my exploring pictures and other information I have gathered over the years. This small task then turned into a mammoth amount of files and reading. It is quite amazing to see the back and forth chat between a company and the secretary of state especially when the company gets pissed off with the attitude of the government lol.

The internet will never be as fun as opening a 'Top Secret' document:D

Anyway, after 1 whole day in the archives I rebooked my train tickets and went down the next day to finish off my research and to see what else is on offer.

Then I found the 'Westwood Trials' folder, documenting the chemical trials that went on in the mine during the Cold War. Something different and interesting.

I photographed the whole of the document and have now uploaded it so you can all see it for free and not have to go to the lengths I did to see it (although I would totally recommend going to the National Archives!!).

Pics in the document are below and the PDF with text is here....


http://pdfcast.org/pdf/westwood-mine-chemical-testing

Pics:

http://pdfcast.org/images/s/2488/westwood-mine-chemical-testing.jpg

Map:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7212/7357554898_063fe67a0a_o.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7097/7172339079_9842a6f91a_o.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8150/7357554428_e12c634a8a_o.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7236/7357554192_07883240f0_o.jpg

Chemical testing...

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7095/7357553232_a4a683f80f_o.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7095/7357552732_02948bd609_o.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8145/7172338033_c61b0725d1_o.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7089/7172338393_6a568e94d1_o.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7221/7172338189_5df6866e78_o.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8156/7357553438_e8c9810d10_o.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7080/7357553008_b3331e4b63_o.jpg


D-UK

[Tankman]

Looks an interesting Cold war document there! I have a document that goes one better, about Chemical testing on the London Underground. It was carried out on an unsuspecting public, back in 1964 by Porton Down. The file includes detailed maps and photos etc.

[KingElvis]

That's just excellent stuff.

Very interesting.

[BA]

Really interesting, thanks for sharing

[ERNIE99_UK]

Great find. Its cool to see that stuff!

[myke]

thanks for the hard work time and effort so we can then access this on the net.

super cool report

[Little Dave]

Nice to see some proper research on here :thumb Ive spent many an hour in the West Yorkshire Archives - Love it! Nice one :smclap

[Derelict-UK]

Thanks peeps, think I am going to look a bit closer to home in Birmingham's archives to see what they have to offer too.

[Satsukisan]

This is cracking, great since I went down and slept down there NYE a year or so ago. Some of them pics look like it never changed.