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... worked lying on his back on scaffolding high above the chapel floor! . .. the longest living animal on record was a tortoise from the Seychelles? A French officer found it in 1766 and it died 162 years later in 1928. It was killed accidentally when it fell ...

Published: Friday 27 February 1987
Newspaper: Leamington Spa Courier
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 125 | Page: 58 | Tags: none

A ' iN‘ \\*.\\ @ Roger McGough’s (left) play, the “Commission” is currently showing at the Belgrade Theatre, ..

... McGough’s (left) play, the “Commission” is currently showing at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry. Roger is a member of the popular Scaffold group, pictured with him John Gorman and Mike McGear, R/2/162 2 R ™ TRV Puay =~ 47 o | YV ) Y a il b 7 S g 7 AY M e ™ 5\ ...

Published: Friday 28 February 1969
Newspaper: Rugby Advertiser
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 274 | Page: 24 | Tags: none

EXPLOSION OF FIRE.DAMP,

... Benjamin Ellis, and Edwin ‘Walton, who were killed at an explosion of fln-dun“g ‘ on Thursdny night, the Ist inst. The inquiry lasted until late At night. It was elicited that the rzwtued were vorkin% on a scaffold fixed about 17 yards from the bottom ot the ...

Published: Saturday 10 July 1875
Newspaper: Bedworth Times
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 699 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Fire mystery unsolved

... fire tragedy. Mr Mills, who moved to Brighton from Rugby, is the only person not accounted for after the seafront blaze whigh killed four people. Police and demolition experts met at the site of the firewrecked hotel earlier this week as the hunt for a fifth ...

Published: Friday 06 February 1976
Newspaper: Rugby Advertiser
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 285 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THE CINEMA FIGHT

... determined to kill this trust. We are carefully maturing our plans to this end, and we are entering into the fight with an absolute certainty of winning it. ANOTHER HEPWORTH. Those who have seen the sensational film, “At the foot of the Scaffold,” by Hepworth ...

Published: Saturday 05 April 1913
Newspaper: Coventry Graphic
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 350 | Page: 23 | Tags: none

e Th two, 2od e Lldam tobe got. Feery wp .rO ‘Tz Scurvy, and putrid Fevers, the Confequence of kiling

... had 17 killed outright, and 113 woanded. The Thetis came up with the Bouffon at Seven in the Morning and the A&lion lafted 36 Minutes. The Bouffon hud 3z Men killed, and 38 wounded, wany of whom are fince dead: The Thetis had no Men either killed or wounded ...

Published: Monday 24 August 1761
Newspaper: Coventry Standard
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1143 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

TERRIBLE COLLIERY DISASTERS. GREAT LOSS OF LIFE,

... was believed that a large number of men wore in the workings at the time of the fatality. Sabjiined a list of the killed and injured : Killed—Thomas Evans, married ; Elwin Hinder, boy, of New Tredegar ; George Williams, lad ; Georgs Sanders, single man ; ...

Published: Saturday 11 December 1875
Newspaper: Bedworth Times
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 774 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

A WHOLESALE MURDERER

... comrades from gouging out the eyes of their children. A few years afterwards, Aliano, suspecting that one of his friends had been killed by a peasant called Di Noja, avenged himself by stabbing his wife and uhoodfihcuuc . Not content with this, he returned to ...

Published: Saturday 28 August 1875
Newspaper: Foleshill & Bedworth Express
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 408 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Part of Thurfday Morning’s POS T

... and bartered for their R i dad e visgsdie B !Ej - Bows and Arrows of their own, by fuoddenly attacking our Fithermen, they killed eleven on the Spot, and wounded fixteen or feventeen more, before they could get to their Boats and makeoff. The whole of ...

Published: Monday 28 December 1761
Newspaper: Coventry Standard
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 920 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

L O ND O N, Deember 16

... and Graziers, that he would take Care they fliould be paid for all the diftempered Cattle, provided they weré immediately killed and buried: In | the mean Time that Nobleman wrote to the Privy-Council on the Subjeét 3 and, we are affured; that his Majefty ...

Published: Monday 18 December 1769
Newspaper: Coventry Standard
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 639 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES

... a slight wonnd. The executioners then quitted the scaffold ’or fear of the stones, and the criminal’s head continued for some minutes bound to the block. The chief executioner again mounted the scaffold, and the knife fell twice more without success The ...

Published: Sunday 02 October 1831
Newspaper: Coventry Standard
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1615 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BLISHED BY ROLLASON AND READER, HIGH-S

... of speedily throwing out itsplllom.P The. ceiling of the green-house has been partly cut away to make room for it, and a scaffolding is being erected to afford an easier and more minute inspection of this curious production of Flora. Upon the descent of ...

Published: Sunday 19 August 1827
Newspaper: Coventry Standard
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1154 | Page: 1 | Tags: none