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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 

INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS

... filled with concrete. leaving a well, faced with brickwork, about eight feet in diameter. and.21) teet in depth, in the centre. Above this were the seven floors, the two lower ones being lined with brickwork, and used as nore rooms, and the upper ones, lined ...

Published: Saturday 16 February 1850
Newspaper: Hampshire Telegraph
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 521 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE LATE BOILER EXPLOSION AT SOUTHSEA

... to perform the work. In cases of boilers r enclosed in brickwork, it was necessary, uiter a boiler had se been in use three or four years, that every part should be tl examined, even if the brickwork should have to be re- bt moved. He thought the opinions ...

Published: Saturday 23 April 1870
Newspaper: Hampshire Telegraph
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 6326 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

GOSPORT

... to get away from it. The deceased took hold of the wall in getting down, and fell, pulling a portion of the brickwork with her. The E brickwork fell upon her and produced suno internal in- juries as to cause death, which took place on Tuesday moin- ing ...

Published: Saturday 17 August 1872
Newspaper: Hampshire Telegraph
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 551 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

GREAT THUNDERSTORM

... shafting, tearing the con- ductor away from the brickwork, and twisting it in all directions. A portion of it was broken off t and thrown into a neighbouring yard. Frag- ments of the stone coping and brickwork from t the top of the shafting were thrown into ...

Published: Saturday 03 July 1897
Newspaper: Hampshire Telegraph
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 631 | Page: 6 | 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 

POSTSCRIPT

... 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