Utterley Utterley Utterley is the name of the small fictional town in Lancashire, England that was the main setting for the 1980s and 1990s Granada TV series "Brass". Utterley was portrayed as a typical Lancastrian mining and mill town in the 1930s. The town was controlled by Bradley Hardacre who had risen from a childhood spent in the town's workhouse (which later became the Cottage Hospital) to owning through his company Hardacre International most of the town's industry (mine, mill, munitions factory, shipyard, crutch factory and aircraft factory) and also it would appear all or at least most of the property
Uranium mining in Australia August 1955, processing ore from Radium Hill and Wild Dog Hill (Myponga), south of Adelaide. The complex supplied the UK - USA Combined Development Agency and closed in February 1962. Uranium deposits were found at Rum Jungle (NT) in 1949 and a mining operation run by the Commonwealth commenced there in 1954. Further discoveries were made at South Alligator River (NT) in 1953, Mary Kathleen (Qld) in 1954, and Westmoreland (Qld) in 1956. In 1954 Radium Hill reopened as a uranium mine and mining operations started at several other sites in the late 1950s. By 1964, production had mostly ended