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    The Armley asbestos disaster is a public health problem originating in Armley, a suburb of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Described by Dr. Geoffrey Tweedale...
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    Armley in a programme beginning in the 1950s and finishing in the early 1970s. From the 1870s until 1956, Armley was home to the J W Roberts asbestos...
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    Museum, Kirkstall Abbey, Abbey House Museum, Leeds Industrial Museum at Armley Mills, Thwaite Mills, Lotherton Hall, Temple Newsam and Leeds Discovery...
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    the latter half of the nineteenth century, population growth in Hunslet, Armley, and Wortley outstripped that of Leeds. When pollution became a problem...
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    and the Asbestos Diseases Society was formed to represent the Wittenoom victims.[citation needed] In Leeds, England the Armley asbestos disaster involved...
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    committed to continue fighting for justice for the victims of the Armley asbestos disaster and their families. In a series of questions in Parliament, she...
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  • James Hardie Industries (category Asbestos disasters)
    exchange that the MRCF was fully funded. Asbestos and the law Australian Blue Asbestos Armley asbestos disaster Hamlyn (publisher) "Locations: Corporate...
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  • worship Schools Tourism Events Chapeltown riots 1975 1981 1987 Armley asbestos disaster Battle of Leeds Battle of Seacroft Moor Leeds Blitz Dripping riot...
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    1835. The parish and borough included the chapelries of Chapel Allerton, Armley, Beeston, Bramley, Farnley, Headingley cum Burley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Leeds...
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  • Turner & Newall (category Asbestos)
    United Asbestos Companies and several asbestos insulation companies in the UK. The company operated a plant in Leeds where the Armley asbestos disaster occurred...
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    and Lower Wortley. New Wortley is the area closest to Leeds city centre, Armley and Holbeck and close to HM Prison Leeds. It is largely made up of 1960s...
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    discussions of the Armley Asbestos Disaster for financial assistance in surveying local housing in the Armley area for residual asbestos, Young responded...
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    worship Schools Tourism Events Chapeltown riots 1975 1981 1987 Armley asbestos disaster Battle of Leeds Battle of Seacroft Moor Leeds Blitz Dripping riot...
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    Yorkshire. Buses go from Pudsey to various parts of neighbouring Leeds, such as Armley, Bramley, Chapel Allerton, Cross Gates, Farsley, Horsforth, Headingley,...
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    National Statistics. Retrieved 26 February 2016. "Place name: Bramley in Armley, Yorkshire Folio: 318r Great Domesday Book ... | The National Archives"...
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    built at this time. In March 1941, the Luftwaffe launched attacks on Leeds, Armley, Beeston and Bramley. Leeds New Station was one of the primary targets,...
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    (class action environmental lawsuit) Armley asbestos disaster § Chase Manhattan Bank v T&N Armley asbestos disaster § Margereson v J.W. Roberts Ltd. and...
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  • Federal-Mogul (category Asbestos)
    asbestos-related products, including those made with blue crocidolite asbestos mined in South Africa. Turner & Newall was responsible for the Armley asbestos...
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    worship Schools Tourism Events Chapeltown riots 1975 1981 1987 Armley asbestos disaster Battle of Leeds Battle of Seacroft Moor Leeds Blitz Dripping riot...
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  • world record J. W. Roberts Ltd., a defunct company involved in the Armley asbestos disaster This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title...
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    the area, although there are also Roma communities living in Beeston and Armley. The area has at least eight places of worship, indicative of the changing...
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    instrumentation equipment. In the 1990s the company moved to offices in Armley. The Forensic Science Service had a laboratory in Wetherby on Sandbeck Way...
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  • to long term health presented by the airborne asbestos fibres from this site." Armley asbestos disaster Corby toxic waste case Agriculture Street Landfill...
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    closed on 22 March 1965, along with other stations on the Airedale line: Armley Canal Road, Kirkstall, Calverley & Rodley and Apperley Bridge. The town...
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  • (01/04/1987) [1] Too Close to Home (6 December 1988), about the Armley asbestos disaster The Wigan Hold (1989, filmed 1988), about wrestling at Riley's...
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    later, in 1879, it was sold and presented to St. Bartholomew's Church, Armley. In keeping with its grand design, the house was built with tall chimneys...
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