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TERRIFIC BOILER EXPLOSION AT TUNSTAL

... connected with which were two boilers, 86 feet in length, and 9 or 10 feet in diameter, raised upon a foundation of solid brickwork, which projected some distance across the road. One of these boilers was completed on Wednesday morning, and with the engille ...

Published: Saturday 04 August 1866
Newspaper: Oxford Journal
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 495 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

BOILER EXPLOSIONS

... throuldh aL door on the oppositc side of the room, amid all the doors were wrenched off their hinges. A portiomi of the brickwork ill the areaL wAS blowit downl, and the windows and sinsies ill the kitehenu tatd ill the room above were destroyed. Some ...

Published: Saturday 29 January 1881
Newspaper: Oxford Journal
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1037 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

RE-PLANTING OF THE TREES IN ST. GILES'S

... trunks of these trees is protected by a sloping pavement of brick-work, carried quite tsp to the bark, and about half a yard high, so that the trees rise, as it were, out of a cone of brick-work. The care with which the trees in the public places abroad ...

Published: Saturday 20 November 1858
Newspaper: Oxford Journal
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 708 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

EXPLOSION OF AN ENGINE BOILER

... pit mouth, was raised on brick-work, the base of the erection being about three feet in thickness, gradually diminishing in an upward direction, till the upper part of it formed a cap of only one brick thick. This brick-work was about sixty feethi ci ...

Published: Saturday 31 August 1844
Newspaper: Oxford Journal
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 829 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

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... and portions of roa- chinery were lying in ruins, and for a space of some 70 or 80 feet square nothing but the wreck of brickwork, rafters, and here and there portions of iron pipes and wheels, could be discovered. The upper portion of the outer case ...

Published: Saturday 08 March 1845
Newspaper: Oxford Journal
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 746 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

OXFORD, SaturDay, April 9

... bricks conitined to fall, and somie of the men refused to work erris then inspected the brick-work, and ultimately lie and his mni ivent to work at the top. T'Ie brick-work still contrinuing to give way, an attempt was iade to shore it 1up,) thle arch however ...

Published: Saturday 09 April 1842
Newspaper: Oxford Journal
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1775 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

CAMBRIDGE, Thursday Night

... are pow con- j stantly emploved. The long ind severe frosts of the past season have npessarily retarded the progress of brick-work and masonry, but not to an l in ?? extent on this line; and I am happy to find that the damage w'oh eh as been caused thereby ...

Published: Saturday 27 February 1847
Newspaper: Oxford Journal
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1495 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

We understand that the Mayor has called a meeting of the City Council for Thursday next, to take

... a University School, snd, in the process of rconstruction, the avorkmen had occasion Ot Wednesday to rensove some of tin brickwork of a cellar, which bdl beess blocked up apparentlV for some years. On Cntcriag the cellar they discovered a large number ...

Published: Saturday 24 January 1863
Newspaper: Oxford Journal
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 455 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE AQUEDUCTS OF ROME

... earlier aqueducts were generally beneath the ground. The noble arcades of the aqueducts, containing, perhaps, the finest brickwork in the world, crossed the |Canpagna, or flat open country, for the last seven miles into Rome, in two parallel lines about ...

Published: Saturday 07 June 1873
Newspaper: Oxford Journal
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 490 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE HURRICANE

... about eighty feet of the slated roof and carried it several feet northwards, tearing away a considerable portion of the brickwork. Some men and horses had a narrow escape. ...

Published: Saturday 14 December 1872
Newspaper: Oxford Journal
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 551 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS

... struck a stack of chimnueys at the Lord Stanley pablichouse, Sandriugham-roeld, yezt Hackney, displacing a quantity of the brick-work and greatly alarming the inmates. A farm labourer iamre Michael M'Gurkin, 19 years of age, while engaged sprinkling lime ...

Published: Saturday 16 August 1884
Newspaper: Oxford Journal
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 473 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

OXFORD CITY RIFLE CORPS

... of the value of 2s. (d., the property of Mr. F. Greenwood. The defelldallts had been employed under Mr. Pride to do the brick-work of two new houses being built in Prince's- street for the complainant. A quantity of bricks were missed, and, the defendants ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1870
Newspaper: Oxford Journal
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 500 | Page: 5 | Tags: News