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25 years ago

Potentially dangerous asbestos cladding is flaking from the girders of a Birmingham city centre car park used by hundreds of motorists daily. Yesterday the Health and Safety Executive began an investigation after Aston University scientists revealed cladding at the National Car Parks Ltd multi-storey car park, off Hill Street, was amosite (brown) asbestos.

The Birmingham Post, November 1979

50 years ago

The Duke of Edinburgh, making his second visit to the Midlands within a week, referred yesterday to 'suspicion, friction and sometimes open hostility' to new ideas in industry. He was opening new laboratories at the Research Association of British Rubber Manufacturers in Shawbury, Shropshire.

The Birmingham Post, November 1954

100 years ago

An accident occurred yesterday at Rounds Green Primitive Methodist Day School in Oldbury. Children were gathered around a stove in the classroom, when a lad placed a stick of dynamite on top of it. This caused a loud explosion and a number of children were injured, suffering from bruises, burns and shock. They were treated at West Bromwich District Hospital. The dynamite cartridge had been found in a local brickyard.

The Birmingham Daily Post, November 1904