Payout for asbestos poster girl

Manchester Evening News 12th February 2008, reported that the family of a Turner and Newall poster girl have won a five figure settlement from the company after she died from asbestos related cancer.

Martha Charlson, from Rochdale, helped promote the acceptable image of T&N in its heyday, when her photo appeared in a booklet detailing the firm's history.She was pictured working at a spotless-looking asbestos spinning machine on the factory floor at Turner Brothers premises in Rochdale in 1957. But the photo was hardly a reflection of the real conditions she and hundreds of fellow workers endured.

Mrs Charlson, who died aged 64 in 2002, just months after retiring from the company, where she had been employed from the age of 16, handling asbestos treated yarn.

In a witness statement she was never able to give, Mrs Charlson said: "I clearly remember silver bits from the asbestos yarns sticking on my hands. The dust given off when the yarn was being unravelled went everywhere: in my hair, up my nose, my hands, on my clothes and all over the floor." She added: "The picture, of course, does not represent my working conditions, because all the dust was brushed up just before the picture was taken."

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