If it happened, it was in the news.
Taunton Courier and Western Advertiser – Wednesday 11 August 1875 RAILWAY ACCIDENT. An accident, fortunately attended by no more serious result than the detention of a large number of passengers, has occurred at the Cannon-street station, London. The 10.35 train to Hastings from Charing-cross, it appears, was entering the station, when, from some unexplained cause, […]
Berkshire Chronicle – Saturday 06 June 1835 HENLEY. On Sunday afternoon, during Service, a fire broke out in the thatch of a stable adjoining the Ferry Boat public-house at Medmenham, which was destroyed, with its contents—a stump of hay caught fire, but was speedily extinguished. The fire is supposed to have been caused by lightning. […]
Morning Advertiser – Monday 23 March 1868 THE ALLEGED MURDER ON A RAILWAY. The Surrey coroner was on Saturday night occupied for three hours at the “Railway” Tavern, Surbiton, respecting the supposed murder of James Randel, aged twenty years. The case excited great interest, it having been stated that the deceased had been murdered and […]
Hucknall Morning Star and Advertiser – Friday 22 August 1890 DEATH FROM DRINKING SPIRITS. Last Thursday night, the police at Whaplode, Lincolnshire, were sent for to arrest an Irish harvestman named Mace, aged about 35, for stealing spirits. The constable found the man lying in a corn field apparently under the influence of drink. He […]
South Wales Daily Post – Wednesday 01 January 1930 front 69 CHILDREN PERISH IN PAISLEY CINEMA PANIC INFANTS CRUSHED TO DEATH IN STAMPEDE OF TERROR Cry of “Fire” Causes Wild Rush For Picture Hall Doors CHILDREN’S LEAP FROM BALCONY Worst Disaster in History of British Cinema Industry PAISLEY, the Scottish cotton town where yesterday occurred […]
Leighton Buzzard Observer and Linslade Gazette – Tuesday, 26 August 1913 THE INQUEST. The inquest was held at Winscott Farm, the home of the deceased, yesterday (Monday) afternoon, by the Deputy Coroner for the Aylesbury district (Mr. Stanley E. Wilkins). Mr. W. F. Herbert was foreman of the jury. Evidence of identification was given by […]
Exeter and Plymouth Gazette – Tuesday 06 September 1887 DESTRUCTION OF THE EXETER THEATRE ENORMOUS LOSS OF LIFE THE DEAD LAID OUT IN ROWS AGONISING SCENES Last night, Exeter’s new Theatre Royal was destroyed by fire. Like its immediate predecessor, it succumbed to flames, but the circumstances of this destruction were far more tragic than […]
Bell’s Weekly Messenger – Saturday 15 January 1848 ACCIDENTS. Melancholy Loss of Life.—On Tuesday, a barge, the property of Mr. Moore, belonging to the port of Rochester, was seen to go down in a gale of wind, a short distance from the Nore Light. She was heavily laden with stone. The crew on board at […]
Morning Chronicle – Saturday 08 January 1859 TWO MEN POISONED BY NITROUS ACID GAS. It rarely happens that we have to record an occurrence of so fatal a character, in connection with the manufactures of the South West, as that which took place at Torpoint Sulphuric Manure works, on Monday, and by which two men […]
Gloucester Journal – Saturday 16 June 1928 Road Accident.TWO GIRL CYCLISTS KILLED. A road accident, involving the death of two young women and the narrow escape of a third, happened on the Nantwich Road, two miles from Whitchurch, Shropshire, on Monday evening. A motor-car driven by J. W. Carrie, of Heswall, Cheshire, and owned and […]
Brighton Gazette – Saturday 6 January 1900 The Keymer Railway Accident – The Verdict Brighton Gazette – Saturday 6 January 1900 Yesterday, at the Constitutional Club, Burgess Hill, Mr. H. B. Bignell, Deputy Coroner for East Sussex, resumed the inquiry into the deaths of William Durrant, rear guard of the up Newhaven boat train; Baldini […]
North Devon Journal – Thursday 22 September 1898 THE BRAKELESS BICYCLE DANGER TWO RIDERS KILLED Herbert Finnington, of Peckham, London, while riding a brakeless bicycle down a steep hill near Westerham, Kent, lost control of the machine, and failing to round a corner, dashed with terrific force into the bank. His head was fractured against […]
Portsmouth Evening News – Monday 15 June 1903 CORONER’S COURT. This afternoon Mr. T. A. Bramston, Borough Coroner, held three inquests at the Town Hall, Landport. A PAINFULLY SUDDEN DEATH. The first inquiry related to the death of Mrs. Sarah White, wife of Mr. John White, landlord of the “Barleycorn” beer-house, Conway-street, Landport. The husband, an Army […]
The Kensington Post – Friday 14 October 1927 ACCIDENTS Colliding with a motor ‘bus at the junction of Wesley Road and Shakespeare Avenue, Stonebridge, Miss Emily Cox, of 28 Pitfield Way, Stonebridge, who was riding a bicycle, was injured, and after treatment by Dr. Bateman, was taken home in the doctor’s car. Edward Low, of […]
Pictorial Times – Saturday 06 March 1847 CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. Fatal Collision in the River. A collision, involving what is supposed to be the loss of seven lives, happened early on Sunday morning in the river, off Old Haven, about two miles below Tilbury Fort. The vessel which is lost appears to have been the […]
Hendon & Finchley Times – Friday 21 December 1928 FINCHLEY TRAGEDY AGED NIGHT-WATCHMAN KILLED BY TRAMCAR NEAR CEMETERY. EXTENSIVE BODY INJURIES. William Herbert Bailey Knight, aged 68, of 54, Durham Road, Tottenham, died in the Finchley Memorial Hospital on Friday, after having been knocked down, earlier in the day, by a tramcar near the St. […]
