Nellie Kershaw: Remembering Asbestos Victims' Legacy

Ronan Ballance in Fieldfisher's Industrial Disease team had the pleasure of attending the Nellie Kershaw 100-year anniversary event held by the Greater Manchester Asbestos Victim Support Group at the Methodist Central Hall in Manchester last week.

Nellie Kershaw developed asbestosis while working at Turner’s asbestos factory in Rochdale. She died, aged 32-33, on 14th March 1924. Nellie never received any compensation from Turner’s. Her husband could not pay for the funeral, and Nellie was buried in an unmarked pauper’s grave in Rochdale cemetery. 

To recognise 100-years since her untimely death, and to remember all victims of asbestos who have sadly died as a result of exposure to the UK's number one occupational killer, we gathered to release doves and to reflect on where we would be now had the right decisions been made following Nellie's death all those years ago.

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