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A short introduction to the Avenue Carbonisation and Chemical Plant

Our July 2022 meeting heard about how the Avenue Carbonisation and Chemical Plant, Wingerworth, was decontaminated in the 2000s. As a background this post looks at the opening of the works in the 1950s, through to closure and decontamination. A slightly edited version of this account is available to download as pdf form the page […]