Redditch
About Redditch
Redditch is a town and non-metropolitan district with borough status in Worcestershire, England. In 2021, the town had a population of 81,637 and the district had a population of 87,037. In the 1800s, it became a centre for the needle and fishing tackle industry; by the end of the century, 90% of the world's needles were manufactured in the town and its surrounding areas.
On the show — 3 mentions total
If you swim in Redditch in the Abbey Stadium Leisure Centre, you are being heated by dead bodies from the crematorium. They came up with the idea in, I think it was 2012 that they started implementing it, and it saves 40% on the leisure centre's energy bills because it's so much cheaper.
from 540: No Such Thing As The Three Gorgeous Dams, 2024-07-18 at 00:41:10 · read transcript
Other times Redditch came up
The town. The town. It's a Birmingham. It's relatively large conurbation. Well, there's a swimming pool in Redditch, which is heated by the local crematorium's spare heat. I love that. They voted for it in 2013, and the council voted for it, and they won an award for it from some green group. There were lots of protests at the time. Oh, really, and ironically, whenever I use deep heat, because I seem to be allergic to capsicin, I get a reddish.
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