The scene that confronted 18-year old Harry Hardy was gruesome. Five of his workmates had been hit by a passing train. There was nothing he…
According to the Coventry Herald, it was a ‘remarkable accident near Warwick’. On 28 March 1926, a Great Western Railway (GWR) steam engine collided with…
One hundred years ago, in May 1926, Britain was in the throes of its first, and only, general strike. In an attempt to maintain profits…