At the same age as David Fenn I too walked(from Rosehill) to the rubber dump fire.We could see the flames from our garden. Is anyone aware of possible effects of the prolonged fallout on their health?

We could see the massive cloud of smoke St Benets and we joined just about every other child on the estate in running down there to see what had caused it. It wasn't just tyres that were dumped there, it was other rubber items...many people were taking things, I managed to purloin a couple of inflatable beds which were ideal for laying on in the garden.

At that time I was living in Sherbourne Crescent, and a gang of us kids went down to see what was going on and to see what we could (as Ray politely puts it) purloin, and there was lots of stuff most of it army surplus. life jackets flying goggles, inflatables of all sorts sadly when we got them back home, though they looked good the vast majority were perished, and unusable. It was an extremely hot that particular day in fact I think we had quite a spell of warm weather we heard that the sun reflecting through some glass was the cause of the blaze and I wouldn't doubt it as there was all sorts on that dump.