Environmental Concerns are nothing new
The recycling of waste materials was regularly reported in the Council minutes, and in January the surveyor reported that the collection of waste paper for the month of December amounted to 1 ton and bottles and jars 4 tons 1 cwt.
There was also concern over encroachment into the local countryside, and Tunnel Cement’s expansion plans at Pitstone were not welcome. In March the Council protested most strongly to the extension of these workings to the land on the South East of the Upper Icknield Way. These workings were allowed to go ahead in the September
. [Recently there have been proposals to use the now disused quarry as a vast refuse tip. Another disused quarry is now the College Lake Nature Reserve. The Cement works has now been demolished and replaced by a housing estate.]|
On June 4th [the St Paul’s Youth Fellowship]
went over to Pitstone for a tour of the Tunnel cement works. Mr. Lewis,
the bell-ringers’ president, was our guide and he afterwards
entertained us with some light refreshment at his house. It was a very
interesting and instructive evening, in which we saw all the stages in
the manufacture of cement and learnt that the hot spell, that was just
ending, was a mere nothing compared with the heat in which the men
worked near the kiln.
Parish Magazine, July |
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