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, […]
Liverpool Weekly Courier – Saturday 21 September 1872 HORSE THEFT BY A BOY. On Tuesday, at the Halifax Borough Court, a boy, nine years old, named Andrew M’Intyre, was charged with stealing a horse and cart belonging to Robert Womersley, farmer, of Lighthcliffe. Womersley was in Halifax on Saturday, and he left the horse and […]
Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper, 22 June 1879 The Murder at Rotherhithe (From our later editions of last week.) The adjourned inquest on the body of Robert Collins, a telegraph messenger, who was found stabbed about the body under a railway arch at Rotherhithe, and who died in Guy’s Hospital, was resumed on Friday at the latter […]
Norfolk News – Saturday 05 December 1896 BRIGHTON RAILWAY OUTRAGE.ATTACK ON A SUFFOLK WOMAN. At the Sussex Assizes on Monday, before Baron Pollock, Alfred Lock, 18, described as a gardener, of East Grinstead, was indicted for feloniously assaulting Louisa Clarke, a middle-aged woman, with intent to murder her, in a third-class railway carriage on the London, Brighton, […]
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 […]
Coventry Evening Telegraph – Wednesday 30 May 1945 Birmingham Trip in Stolen Motor Lorry Receiving a telephone message from the Birmingham police that a lorry from Coventry had collided with a trolley-bus pole there, and they were detaining a youth who was in the lorry at the time, Detective Dickens went to that city to […]
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 […]
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. […]
Runcorn Weekly News – Wednesday 24 December 1913 KNOCKED DOWN IN THE DARK AT DITTON. TWO MEN INJURED IN MOTOR VAN ACCIDENT. STRANGE AFFAIR IN STEWARD’S LANE. The somewhat serious injuries sustained by two men by being knocked down by a motor van in Steward’s Lane, close to the Ball of Ditton, on Monday night, […]
Family notices in old newspapers are important because they provide essential details about individuals, relationships, and communities, offering a rich resource for genealogical research and insights into social history. Here is an example: Gloucester Citizen (Thursday 8th December 1927): BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. Notices of Births, Marriages and Deaths, In Memoriam Notices, Acknowledgements of Sympathy, […]
FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT ON THE NORTH KENT RAILWAY. Also on this page: The State of Rail Safety in the UK During the 1850s Importance of Historical News Articles for Historians and Genealogists Free to use British Newspaper Research Service COLLISION OF TRAINS. Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard – Saturday 04 July 1857 A frightful accident occurred a […]
