A SWANWICK man died after years of being exposed to asbestos, an inquest heard.

George Brough, 89, died at the Countess Mountbatten House hospice in West End as a result of significant exposure to asbestos throughout his career at Southampton docks.

The former electrician, who lived at Swanwick Shore Road, eventually gave in to bronchopneumonia on October 6.

As well as working for Lancaster and Son foundry and the London Electricity Board alongside laggers, Mr Brough also worked aboard the Queen Elizabeth during the 1940s and 1950s.

Recording a verdict of death due to industrial disease, senior coroner for south and central Hampshire, Grahame Short, said: “In the circumstances there’s no doubt in my mind George Brough was exposed to asbestos for a prolonged period of his life in the 1940s-50s and he was diagnosed as suffering from plural plaques disease prior to his death.

“It’s clear from that medical report I’ve just read that he was identified as being at risk of death due to the asbestos exposure.”