Our last 2 blog posts have taken an overview of the new project data (available here, free). This week we’re going to start looking at the individual level, taking a single case and seeing what we can find out. Or, more accurately, we’re taking two cases that occurred in the same incident: brothers Thomas and […]
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Death on the Railway in Victorian Peterborough
By Sophie Michell on May 30, 2022 in Blog, Events, Guest contribution, Local History, Suicide, Trespass, Urban History
This week’s guest post links nicely to last week’s, with its focus on Peterborough. Peterborough offers a great window onto death in the past, thanks to the survival of coroner’s inquest records – currently being used in her innovative and very exciting PhD study by this week’s author, Sophie Michell. This blog post comes from […]
The Oakworth Anti-Vaccinator’s Railway Accident
By Sylvia Valentine on June 6, 2022 in Accident reports, Blog, Family History, Guest contribution, Medical humanities, Urban History
One of the great things about this project is that it takes us in all sorts of unexpected directions. That includes the research and topics we’re exposed to – as in today’s guest blog post: another surprise that the apparently mundane topic of railway accidents has thrown up. There’s another aspect to the directions the […]
Railway Accident at Ivybridge Devon 1917
By Sandra Gittins on May 16, 2022 in Accident reports, Blog, Explore your Archives, Family History, Guest contribution
We’re delighted to welcome Sandra Gittens back to the project blog this week. Sandra is known for her research on – amongst others – the railways of the First World War. In the course of that work she’s uncovered a number of accidents to railway staff on military duty overseas, many of which she’s already […]
James Spridgeon, Railway Platelayer: Accidentally Killed in 1880
By Rosie Rowley on May 23, 2022 in Accident aftermath, Accident reports, Blog, Family History, Guest contribution, Local History, Urban History
This week’s blog post came about following a talk Mike gave at the U3A Family History Conference in Buxton in September 2019. Mike had a number of interesting conversations, including with this week’s guest author, Rosie Rowley. They discussed a case Rosie had found from her family history, also notable for the fact that the […]
An Irish works accident
This weekend the 175th anniversary of the Inchicore Works in Dublin will be marked by an open day at the Works. The actual 175 was reached last year, but … well, you can imagine why things were postponed. Opened in 1846, the Works remains operational to this day; as we might expect of such an […]
Steel and steam
This weekend, I did what any self-respecting person would naturally do on an April Saturday: head to Lincolnshire to have a trundle around a steel works’ internal railway network. I visited the fascinating Appleby Frodingham Railway, which operates on selected dates around the British Steel Scunthorpe internal railway system. That got me thinking … about […]
Wilmcote: George Booker & his family
By Mike Esbester on March 24, 2022 in Accident aftermath, Anniversary, Blog, Family History, Linking sources
On the day of the centenary of the Wilmcote accident, we turn to the fourth and final family to be affected: the Booker family. This follows on from our previous blog, which looked at Edward Sherwood and his family. Of all the families to be affected by the accident, George’s has probably been the […]
Wilmcote: Remembering those affected
Over the last six days we’ve been blogging about 1922 Wilmcote accident (see yesterday’s post here), in the lead up to the centenary on 24 March. We’ve also been writing for different audiences – including a piece for the Stratford Herald newspaper and a blog post for The National Archives of the UK. We’d also […]
Wilmcote: Edward Sherwood & his family
By Mike Esbester on March 23, 2022 in Accident aftermath, Anniversary, Blog, Family History, Linking sources
Yesterday we looked at William Bonehill and his family – another small family, though no less devasting an impact via the death of a husband and father. Today we see the other end of the scale: Edward Sherwood and his large family. Edward was the only of the Wilmcote men to have travelled some […]
