Saturday, 7 December 2024

Robert Hollingworth - Wadsley Bridge Station Sheffield January 1890

 I have just posted an article to the site relating to the life and death of a Sheffield banker Mr William Wild of Pentonvillle, 23 Northumberland Road Sheffield. The newspaper reports are just prodigious in the detail they contain and the tone they set.

Just below the report of his death in the Evening Telegraph and Star dated 21st January 1890 was this report of an inquest into the death of Mr. Robert Hollingworth at Wadsley Bridge railway station.


It appears from the report that Robert was an experienced platelayer but he obviously lost concentration for just a moment and that cost him his life.  


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