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THE GATHERER

... The Queen has granted a pension often shillings week to the widow of the late James Blake, the workman who was killed by falling from scaffold in Osborne House. The two children are also to be placed school in London. A company Spanish comedians, singers ...

Published: Saturday 01 May 1847
Newspaper: Leamington Spa Courier
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1507 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

TERRIFIED residents watched in stunned amazement as tons of scaffolding collapsed outside their homes and ..

... turn had sub-contracted Norbet Scaffold Co Ltd of Cambridge Street, Coventry, to erect the scaffolding. The roofin%l contractors had left the site mintues before the accident but returned immediately along with the scaffolding firm to clear the .debris. Workmen ...

Published: Friday 21 June 1985
Newspaper: Leamington Spa Courier
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 361 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Two Steeplejacks Killed at Regent Hotel

... Two Steeplejacks Killed at Regent Hotel. CATAPULTED FROM A COLLAPSING STEEL CHIMNEY. JURY’S RIDER AS TO HOW ACCIDENT COULD HAVE BEEH AVERTED. The mistaken impression that a steel chimney, weighing 4* tons, was supported a substantial loundation as well ...

Published: Friday 15 June 1934
Newspaper: Leamington Spa Courier
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1079 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Sixteen children were killed, and six others more less injured, by a panic which occured in the German Roman ..

... Sixteen children were killed, and six others more less injured, by a panic which occured in the German Roman Catholic School at New York, through an alarm of fire. The King of Havana went to Wagners’s sepulchre on Monday at midnight, arriving special ...

Published: Saturday 24 February 1883
Newspaper: Leamington Spa Courier
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 818 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Patrols to crash and

... their car insurance is invalid,” he said. “Men are working on scaffolding and in open trenches. If a car was to bump into scaffolding or drive Into an unseen trench then workmen could be killed.” ...

Published: Friday 23 June 1967
Newspaper: Leamington Spa Courier
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 118 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

NUNEATON

... The position of the scaffolding had been altered few minutes previously. The man who assisted the deceased was about two yards from the scaffold at the time, and had a very narrow escape, as he had only moment before left the scaffold for the purpose of ...

Published: Saturday 30 October 1886
Newspaper: Leamington Spa Courier
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 540 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

APPALLING ACCIDENT

... Graham Holmes, joiner, of Broad-street, for the erection of the scaffolding. The portion of the roof immediately over the original scaffold is nearly finished, and a few days ago a fresh scaffold was put immediately adjoining the first, order that the. painters ...

Published: Saturday 13 September 1862
Newspaper: Leamington Spa Courier
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1391 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

Did you know ..

... 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

special meeting the General Synod of the Church f Ireland,held at Dublin nn Tuesday, resolutions were passed ..

... Rome, comer a six-storey- house in course erection way, and falling on the scaffolding immediately below it,seven masons who were there were dashed to the ground Two were killed, and the others were more law injured. The contractor, another whose buildings ...

Published: Saturday 27 March 1886
Newspaper: Leamington Spa Courier
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 109 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Mr Fennell, a gentleman residing im the Queen's County, Treland, has been murdered by a ticket-of-leave convict ..

... some massive picces of iron-work, for a zasometer at the Imperial Ges Works, Bethnal-green, the scaffolding upon which they stood gave way. One man was killed and the other dangerously wjured. A beg of gold-dust, value about £240, was lost at Southampton ...

Published: Saturday 02 May 1857
Newspaper: Leamington Spa Courier
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 287 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

EXECUTION FOR MURDER

... murder. My Ann to kill was intent; I shot her on that fatal evening, I took her precious life away; At Isleworth I was determined. My darling wife that I would slay. Oh yes, I had the pistol loaded, 1 determined was my wife to kill In the dark lanes of ...

BIRMINGHAM

... crash upon the scaffolding. At that time there were seven or eizht men employed upon the ironwork and scaffolding. Fiveof them managed to escape without injury, but the remaining three were not so fortunate. The ironwork fell upon them, killing one instantaneously ...

Published: Saturday 04 March 1876
Newspaper: Leamington Spa Courier
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 800 | Page: 3 | Tags: none