In July 1980, hundreds of children collapsed at an annual show in a mining community
Clair, from Kirkby in Ashfield, was at the event with her grandad Ken Hughes."It was called jazz bands," says Judy Vaughan, who set up the Zingaris band.
As police arrived and began to clear the site, increasingly frantic announcements were made over the public address system. "I got the reports the following morning, there were a number of band members who had got home and then gone to Chesterfield Royal," she says. "It was the same thing: runny eyes, feeling sick and wobbly."
"They kept her there for a couple of days. They never said what caused it so I don't know what the doctors thought," says Ann. "The children wore tight-fitting uniforms and hats. The children did not all collapse together but for a period between a period of 11.15 - 13:00 BST. They were collapsing five or six at a time.
"These were working class kids and I don't believe they looked into it as meticulously as they would have done had it been at a royal garden party."Dennis Skinner felt the incident was not taken seriously by the authorities The report says the toilet block comprised of a portable structure, containing some six chemical closets."There was a very strong aroma of chlorine and ammonia present in the toilet block which was some 20 yards from where the children had been standing.""Worst-case scenario, you make things like chlorine gas, which is what they used in World War One.
Mr Wright says that while mass hysteria may have played a part in the number of collapses that occurred among the children, "there was probably some form of chemical basis".Since the Hollinwell incident, Clair Brown says she has suffered health problems throughout her adult life."I had to have my left kidney removed and now I have double breast cancer. A friend of mine who was there also had breast cancer. I don't know what anybody else has had further health problems.
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