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, […]
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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, […]
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 […]
Eastern Daily Press – Saturday 02 December 1905 LONDON UNEMPLOYED COLLISIONS WITH THE POLICE FIVE DEMONSTRATORS ARRESTED About 500 unemployed attended what was described as the first of a series of meetings on Tower Hill, London, yesterday. The city police had previously notified the Southwark Unemployed Committee that they would […]