We try to blog about fairly typical cases found in our project database – like our post two weeks’ ago, on a 1922 shunting accident…
In yesterday’s blog we outlined what we knew of two of the men involved in the Holywell Junction accident, Richard Jones and Alfred Jones. Today…
Yesterday’s blog looked at the accident at Holywell Junction on 1 September 1922. The next blog posts will look at the men involved. To be…
Alfred Henry Jones. Josiah Jones. Richard Jones. Daniel Roberts. Once again we start a blog post with the names of multiple men killed…
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…
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…
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…
Yesterday we looked at William Bonehill and his family – another small family, though no less devasting an impact via the death of a husband…
Following on from yesterday’s post, looking at Lewis Washburn and his family, today we focus on another of the men who died in the 1922…
In yesterday’s post we looked at what happened in the days following the 1922 Wilmcote accident. This included some of the community impacts, seen through…