Some months back I was looking through the microfilm in alnwick library -the Alnwick Mercury or perhaps Alnwick Gazette for something and came across another very tragic death of a child; year was 1903.
I didn't write it down but a girl in a house in Amble had leant over the fire (I assume to reach something on the mantelpiece), unfortunately her dress and petticoats had passed into the fire and caught alight. The girl panicked and ran out of the house and into the street and was then apparently engulfed in flames and died from her injuries.
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