This month the Railway Work, Life & Death project once again has an exciting new set of data being entered into the project’s database. With…
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In last week’s Disability History Month blog post, we looked at a case which showed staff with hearing loss were employed by the railway companies.…
As part of Disability History Month, our recent blog posts (here and here) have focused on physical disabilities caused by railway work. But what about…
Last week’s blog looked at shunter Frederick Potter, and the way his railway work continued, in a different role, after his 1913 accident which led…
In last week’s blog, starting our contributions to Disability History Month, we considered where we might see learning disabilities in our project work. This week…
When we think of railway accidents in the past, we probably immediately conjure images of the (thankfully rare) big passenger train crashes. Our project has…
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…
Following Monday’s blog post, previous blog contributor Rosie Rowley was inspired to do a bit more research into Frederick Webb, the man at the heart…