Poster at Loughborough station advertising the "fantastic product that is asbestos"

During the 1950's and 1960's the consumption of asbestos in the UK continued to grow as companies introduced more and more products that contained asbestos, and those companies were more than happy to advertise how versatile the products were as can be seen from this poster at Loughborough station.

What is particularly amazing about this poster is that the UK authorities knew since the early 1900's that asbestos caused lung disease and death, but we as a nation refused to ban the product until 1999.

Just think how many lives would have been saved if we banned it earlier.

Northerntrack becomes our first trade advertiser

Since starting the Demolish and Dismantle website we have never taken advertising from demolition companies or equipment suppliers as we have prefered to feature companies that we deal with in news items on the site. However times have changed!

Following extensive negotiations we are pleased to announce that Northerntrack Limited will be featured on the site going forward.

We feel that having seen their products on the majority of the sites we are involved with it is a good fit. Their extensive range of demolition attachments are seen in many of the videos on the site and we will be bringing you new video as they have it.

So thank you to Northerntrack for being our first (of many we hope) advertisers on the site.