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MRS. THOMPSON WAS CARRIED TO THE SCAFFOLD

... that she could have walked with assistance. he had her carried and she was supported on the scaffold. Apart from this, nothing unusual occurred. forces killed by Cyprus terrorists. Earlier. terrorists - blew up a culvert over which British Army patrol ...

Published: Wednesday 28 March 1956
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 357 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Miner killed

... Miner killed NUNEATON.—Fitty-two-yearold Mr. Solomon Wright of 64, Grove Road, here, was killed by a roof fall at Coventry Colliery yesterday afternoon. Killed by fall Mr. Samuel Rickus, aged 52, of 20. Chingford Road, Kingstanding, Birmingham, was killed ...

Published: Thursday 17 February 1955
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 54 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

8 killed by fall

... 8 killed by fall SITTARD (Holland). Friday.— Eight workmen were killed and seven injured when part of a concrete bunker and scaffolding fell at a building site today. - Reuter. Jamaicans sailing KINGSTON, Friday. Another 120 Jamaicans sailed today for ...

Published: Saturday 31 December 1955
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 46 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

WORKER KILLED AS LOAD CRASHES

... WORKER KILLED AS LOAD CRASHES ABUILDING worker was killed and his workmate seriously injured yesterday when nearly four hundredweight of boards crashed 40ft. from a hoist at the Salford flats building site, Aston, Birmingham. Gerrard Joseph McSweeney ...

Published: Saturday 26 February 1955
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 121 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

strike for loyalty

... were killed when they hurtled 180 ft. down the inside of a chimney at Portishead electricity power station, near Bristol, yesterday. The platform on which they were working gave way. One man managed to jump and grab another piece of scaffolding and saved ...

Published: Wednesday 08 December 1954
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 210 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Feet first

... grab hold of the scaffold again—my knees had gone a bit watery. Then my mates gathered round. They seemed to find it hard to believe that I was still alive. That's how I feel about it too. By all the rules I should have been killed as soon as I hit ...

Published: Tuesday 22 June 1954
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 160 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

BIRMINGHAM TAKES LEAD IN SAVING HOMES

... Street, Bordesley. erects scaffolding around the tower of Birmingham Cathedral. Below, Colmore Bow stretches away towards the Council House where the clock tower of Big Brum rises above the surrounding buildings. The scaffolding is for use by workmen ...

Published: Thursday 24 July 1952
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 320 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

ONE MAN. PRAYS-AND IS LEFT ON PERCH 30ft. IN THE AIR

... The scaffolding I was on did not go down %rah the rest. ROAR Mr. Michael Pinad, aged 29, of Westminster Road. Handsworth. Birmingham, was taken to hospital with lett infuries but later discharged. He said: - There were three tiers of scaffolding around ...

Published: Friday 27 April 1956
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 510 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

GOTHIC IN SIX-HOUR SEARCH. FOR SAILOR

... that the seaman was Boxer killed missing. But the searchlights NOM to show any trace of him Jean Romera, feather-weight in the choppy sea. boxing champion of Oran. Hope was abandoned at mid- Algeria, fell from a scaffolding night but the hunt went on ...

Published: Monday 14 December 1953
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 232 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

RIOT STARTS ON CYPRUS RACECOURSE

... reinforcements from the city of Nicosia. Scaffolding crashes . 80 feet SIX men working in the main hall of St. George's Hall, one of the landmarks of Livgrpool, escaped serious injury today when thousands of feet of scaffolding fell. They had noticed a bulge in ...

Published: Monday 02 July 1956
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 465 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

RETAILERS ANXIOUS OVER NEW

... RETAILERS ANXIOUS OVER NEW Second death fall at power station A SECOND man within four months fell to death froM scaffolding at the new electric power station at Nechells, Birmingham. yesterday. During the week-end the National Executive of the Constructional ...

Published: Saturday 25 February 1950
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 253 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

3 STOREYS CRASH IN STREET

... 3 STOREYS CRASH IN STREET A DRAPERY shop assistant, Miss Amy Hardwicke, of Windermere Road, Blackpool, was killed last night when a three-storey shop building collapsed in a busy street. She was on her way to catch a bus home when the building fell and ...

Published: Saturday 30 June 1956
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 176 | Page: 1 | Tags: none