MS/CD Valley Works, Rhydymwyn

[David Thompson]

The new edition of Britain At War , June 2012 , has a superb 7 page article about Rhydymwyn in it written by aviation author and forum member Dave Smith and is well worth it's £4-20 cover price ! Well illustrated it covers in full the pre-war concern by the British government about the possible use of chemical weapons by the axis forces and our own response and wartime production and development of these weapons and the choice of this north Wales site due to its close proximity to the ICI plants in Cheshire who produced the mustard gas . The wartime development and expansion of the site is explained in detail and the figures for both the size of the eventual workforce and munitions produced are huge and the latter particularly chilling bearing in mind that the site has not yet been fully declared 'clean' and in most probability never will be ?
Mention is also given to the Rhydymwyn Valley Historical Society and their work on the site and organised guided tours . For more information please see ;
www.ryhdymwynvalleyhistory.co.uk .
Recommended !

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