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Asbestos took away a friend of mine far too early. The post mortem revealed it many years after she stopped working at TBA Hindley Green

My favourite cousin died from asbestosis while working at Turners,a truly disgusting place.

The city of Wittenoom in the Australia outback was once prosperous by exporting Asbestos, it is now a ghost city, there was a Blue Asbestos mine there and it killed everyone mining it and almost everyone living there by giving them lung cancer, even though the owners knew that it was dangerous and deadly material they never gave their workers the safety equipment they should have been wearing, nor sheltering the city's occupants from the miniscule fibres blowing everywhere, as always the money men just want more money, even when it is killing the people doing the dirty work. Video on YouTube.
https://youtu.be/PaHw_bGI2ME

I don't know if Turner's used the Blue Asbestos, I remember coming across a sheet of it once in a building and was admiring the colour and didn't know that it was even Asbestos let alone Blue Asbestos, I put it down very gently when told what it was.

Went to Cyprus once and went on a tour ,the coach stopped for us to look at the view and the place was covered with asbestos,we legged it and got back on the coach.

I'd imagine that would have been a great shock to see Pw, though I too wouldn't have associated Cyprus with asbestos, but I've had a google and it's naturally occurring there and has been extensively dug and used from Roman times who gave it the agreeable name of Cotton Rock. https://www.visitsolea.com/amiantos-asbestos-mine/?lang=en

Sadly on Cyprus cancer health problems associated with asbestos fibres are prevalent too. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2545615/

It's also found occurring naturally in parts of Corsica with ancient pottery being found showing asbestos fibres having been mixed in with the clay, sadly cancer health problems from asbestos fibres are reported to be there too, as also mentioned in the above government website, the travel operators don't mention the fact that asbestos fibres may well be in the air do they, I've never heard of it ever being mentioned in advertisements, and not even by the popular TV cooks that have done TV cookery programmes from these Islands, though hopefully the tourist spots are okay.