It’s not often there’s the chance to tell the story of an ordinary railway worker’s accident on a national platform. James Welland’s 1898 injury offered…
2024 marks the 50th anniversary of three organisations important to the Railway Work, Life & Death project. The Hampshire Genealogical Society (HGS), Leicestershire & Rutland…
This blog post was produced by University of Portsmouth History student Jenny Leng, as part of her work on the ‘Working with the Past’ module.…
This week’s blog post comes from project friend and champion, Catherine Clarke. Catherine’s support has been tremendously helpful – so we were really pleased when…
At the moment, there’s a really interesting event going on – called ‘All About That Place.’ It marks the 10th anniversary of the Society for…
One of the main causes of injury or fatality frequently recorded in the RWLD database is by ‘misadventure’. However, as anyone who has explored the…
In this guest post, Francis Howcutt recounts the accidental death of Arthur Bott, a brother of his great grandfather. Arthur’s history is an example of…
Every so often someone gets in touch with us to say they’ve found an ancestor in the project database. Despite the sad nature of the…
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…