Red Road Flats
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The Red Road Flats were a mid-twentieth-century high-rise housing complex located between the districts of Balornock and Barmulloch in the northeast of the city of Glasgow, Scotland. The estate origin
The eight Red Road Towerblocks in March 2009
Flats seen in 1979 during the application of overcladding. Blocks 1 and 2 still showing their exposed asbestos cement board cladding
Graffiti around the flats (2004)
Demolition site at the Red Road flats
Asbestos
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Asbestos or asbestus is a group of naturally occurring, fibrous silicate minerals that have been used for thousands of years to create flexible fire-resistant objects, such as fireproof fabrics. It is
Red Road Flats
…the city until then. This would create one of the estate's most significant legacies – steel construction had to be fire-proofed, requiring the use of asbestos, a legacy which blighted the estate in later years. Bunton argued for the steel frame in numerous letters to the Glasgow Herald in February 1963, saying…
Industrial scale asbestos mining began in 1878 in Thetford township, Quebec. By 1895, mining was increasingly mechanized.
Canada's biggest power shovel loading an ore train with asbestos at the Jeffrey Mine, Johns-Manville Co., Asbestos, Quebec, June 1944
The applications of asbestos multiplied at the end of the 19th century—this is an advertisement for an asbestos-lined clothes iron from 1906
Asbestos fabric