Rhydymwyn Valley

 These documents are available for download from our site in Adobe PDF format.

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(a) Rhydymwyn Valley:

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• The Birmingham Archaeology Historic Environment Management Plan - Volume 1

• The Birmingham Archaeology Historic Environment Management Plan - Volume 2

• The Birmingham Archaeology Historic Environment Management Plan - Volume 3

• The Secret Site - article from 'Heritage in Wales' - Cadw (Spring 2009)

• Rhydymwyn Valley Works - article from 'Casemate' - Fortress Study Group (Jan 2011)

• The Purcell Miller Tritton 5 Year Plan (Jun 2011)

• The Purcell Miller Tritton Condition Report (June 2011) Part 1    Part 2    Part 3   Part 4

• The Purcell Miller Tritton Security Report (June 2011)

• The Secret Valley - article from 'Britain at War' magazine (Jun 2012)

• RVHS - Proposal for Managed Access to the Central Tunnel (Feb 2013)

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(b) Other documents:

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• Report on Sensitivity to Mustard Gas at Sutton Oak (1932)

• Ministry of Supply Factory Springfields

• Trawsfynydd Testing (1939)

• Klaus Fuchs - Manhattan Project CV (1945)

• Rudolf Peierls - Manhattan Project CV (1945)

• DSTL Little Heath (Suffolk) Site Investigation - Gareth Johnson & Mark Rogers

• Instructions for Gas Alert and Action During a Gas Attack (WWI)

• The Sheathed Sword - Gas Production in World War II - Arthur Howarth

• Memoirs of a Peripatetic Technologist: Foster Neville Woodward (1985)

• Doll Report - Cancers of the respiratory tract in mustard gas workers - BJIM (1988)

• Chemical Materiel Destruction Agency - Old Chemical Weapons (1994)

• Fritz Haber, the damned scientist - Magda Dunikowska and Ludwik Turko (Aug 2011)

 

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• Preparing for War (USA Chemical Warfare Service)

• The New World 1939-1946, A History of The United States Atomic Energy Commission, Volume I (governmentattic.org)

• Chemical Weapons in Russia (Federation of American Scientist)

• Caring for Military Sites (Cadw)

• Canada and Chemical Warfare 1939-1945 (University of Saskatchewan)

• Environmental Threats posed by the Sea-dumped and Earth-buried Chemical Weapons in the Central European and Baltic Region - J Matousek

• Effects of Nuclear Weapons (Deepspace)

• History of German chemical warfare in World War II (Part I) (CARLDL)

• BW & BW Defence Field Trials - DERA (Feb 1999)

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Other Recommended Reading

 

The History of HMS Queen: A World War II Lend Lease Escort Aircraft
David Godfrey Weaver

Hardcover: 260 pages
Publisher: David Godfrey Weaver, Hong Kong
Published: 2 Dec 2004
Cost: £65 including postage
ISBN-10: 9889727218
ISBN-13: 978-9889727215

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Stations of Coastal Command - Then and Now
David Smith

Publisher: After The Battle
Published: February 2016, UK
Cost: £37.50
ISBN-13: 978-781870 067874

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"Coastal Command, created in 1936 alongside Fighter and Bomber Commands in the reorganisation of the RAF in its preparations for the coming war, was Britain’s mainstay in the battle against the German submarine. As more and more Allied merchantmen were sunk during the long voyage from North America, the Mediterranean, and points south, tracking down the U-Boats became a constant struggle against harsh weather on long-distance patrols out over the Atlantic and Bay of Biscay."