Professor Paul Salveson is a historian and writer and lives in Bolton. He is visiting professor in ‘Worktown Studies’ at the University of Bolton and author of several books on Lancashire history Lancashire, during and after the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century, was a dirty and polluted place to live. We’ll never know the true toll on people’s lives as a result of atmospheric pollution but it must have been enormous. There was no NHS. If you were ill you had to pay, unless you were lucky enough to be protected by a friendly society or trade union (which of course you had to pay contributions to). Working in mill, mine or factory didn’t just expose you to physical injury from machinery, but more insidiously the long-term risks to health from airborne pollution.
Before the NHS, Bolton could rely on its community doctors
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they were caused not by an earthquake, but by the eruption of this massive volcano, which the entire island vaporized in a matter of seconds which created such an enormous hole in the sea which was then filled with water, which instantly flashed into steam and that caused these pulses, afternoons this techtonic episode did in japan the other day, and that sent on the a huge wal much water. it killed 40,000 people in the immediate proximity with this 110, 115 foot wall of water, but it prop gated all over the indian ocean. it hit sri lanka, zanzabar and then went across africa and was recorded in west africa and nigeria all the way up to the english channel. simon, it is fascinating listening to you. i want to get back to a historical perspective.