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NEED FCR FIRE GUARDS

... cotton, and there was a fender to the fire. The Coroner: Don't you think it would have been better if you had had a fire guard when 8o many children are in ghe house Witness: It is not very often that T have a fire upstairs, and it was the first time deceased ...

Published: Saturday 20 January 1906
Newspaper: Accrington Observer and Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 531 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

Observleviations

... of guardless fire victims. But although here, as in so many other cases, there was no protection for the child, one’s sympathies went out to the distressed mother, who told the Coroner that the only reason why they had not used a fire guard was that they ...

Published: Saturday 05 March 1910
Newspaper: Accrington Observer and Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 1576 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

JOEN BUNKALL'S GRAND X.MAS WHOLESALE SHO“'ROOM is Now Open at 2, LODGE STREET. ACCRINGTON, with a Large ..

... legs had given way and she had fallen against the fire. Deceased was e wearing a woollen frock and muslin pinafore, 2 wg,y Asked by the Coroner if there was a fire —— coanlet FUoh guard in front of the fire, Mrs. West replied | THE LUXURY OF A BATH ls.inonovll ...

Published: Saturday 15 December 1906
Newspaper: Accrington Observer and Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 780 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

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... wives in Croft-street She left small light burning and fire which provided guard was candle on the dresser About half hour later the door neighbour John William Bailey the boy shouting he on fire He once open the found unfortunate child standing on bed ...

Published: Wednesday 27 December 1916
Newspaper: Accrington Observer and Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 5218 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE CIVIC GUARD

... THE CIVIC GUARD. Mr. R. A. Westwell, major in command of the Civic Guard, prior to introducing the lecturer, explained the circumstances under which the Civiec Guard came to be formed in Accrington, and also outlined the objects for which it existed. ...

Published: Tuesday 09 March 1915
Newspaper: Accrington Observer and Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 591 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE CIVIL GUARD. * A Night March

... members of the Accrington Civil Guard. Several other new members have joined this week, and the Corps lis row almost up to the full strength re\quired. For the convenience of the trades'men drills in connection with the Guard ‘are Dbeing held on Wednesday ...

Published: Saturday 23 January 1915
Newspaper: Accrington Observer and Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 333 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

SERIES OF FIRES

... SERIES OF FIRES. Mr, ¥Fuller, of Boston-avenue, Southend, gives a ‘‘Star” representative this story:— “I was awakened at dawn by a series of loud explosions and, looking out of the window, 1 saw three houses burning within a radius of 500 yards, and what ...

WRECKED CARRIAGES ON FIRE

... WRECKED CARRIAGES ON FIRE. How the epeed of forty miles an hour came to mean the wreck of the great train is quite clear. Two hundred yards to the north of Grantham Station there branches, in a curve to the left, a line to Nottingham, and the points to ...

Published: Saturday 22 September 1906
Newspaper: Accrington Observer and Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 1961 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

SHOTS FIRED OVER CROWD,

... in conseqaenpe.uf this reply he is resigning his. commission of the peace. At night the soldiers fired shots over the crowd. One of the soldiers on guard ab Mountjoy was shol 1t 1s believed aceidently, The wound is severc. —_—a X Chaplain Captain Dexter ...

Published: Tuesday 13 April 1920
Newspaper: Accrington Observer and Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 367 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE FIRE BRIGADL DISCUSSED

... THE FIRE BRIGADL DISCUSSED. Mr. Cook drew attention to the resolution of the Fire Brigade Committee, with reference to a gift of £8 ss. for the Fire Brigade, and said it gave him an opportunity to express an opinion which he had neld for some time. The ...

Published: Tuesday 13 March 1906
Newspaper: Accrington Observer and Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 1216 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Fire Follows Explosion £B,OOO Damage at Baxenden

... body, An alarm was given from Baxenden railway station to Accrington fire brigade at 9-40 and to Haslingden fire brigade at 9-45, in the latter case by a train guard. Accrington.fire brigade attended under Assistant-superintendent Barnes, with steamer ...

Published: Saturday 17 July 1920
Newspaper: Accrington Observer and Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 1192 | Page: 12 | Tags: none