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Old 14-03-2014, 01:01 PM
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Another story behind the name of a burial and a surviving headstone: "Christopher Robertson Copeland, aged 31, of Dovecote Street, Amble. Killed at Togston Colliery. Buried 8 December 1899.
Morpeth Herald, 9 December:-
"On Wednesday, a miner named Christopher Robertson Copeland, 31 years of age, employed at Togston Colliery, near Acklington, came to a terrible death by falling down the colliery shaft. His body was picked up at the bottom disfigured beyond all recognisability. Some workmen engaged at the bottom of the shaft had also a narrow escape from injury by some falling timber, which had been dislodged by the deceased in his precipitated descent down the shaft. The deceased was married, and the sad accident has caused a painful sensation in the neighbourhood."
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Old 14-03-2014, 08:04 PM
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Here's another shaft fall from Radcliffe this time:

FATAL COLLIERY CALAMITY. - On Wednesday night, as Andrew Stephenson, miner, was ascending, with a barrel of the pump, the shaft of Radcliffe colliery, Amble, it became entangled with a stancheon, and, on its release by the deceased, is supposed to have struck him on the chest. He was precipitated down the shaft, whereby his skull was literally dashed into fragments, the brain being scattered about the bottom of the shaft. His death is sincerely regretted by all who knew him, and he has left a wife and large family to mourn over their irreparable loss. The deceased was remarkable for his suavity of disposition, and great attainments in botany, chemistry, conchology, and mineralogy; and the writer will not forget his scientific elucidation of the principles upon which safety lamps for the prevention of explosions in collieries are constructed, when the subject was talked of in his own house, after the lamentable catastrophe at Haswell. –Mar 15 1845


We have another shaft fall recorded on the forum somewhere: William Douglas, Radcliffe shaft again, Feb 1841.
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Old 14-03-2014, 08:06 PM
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whereby his skull was literally dashed into fragments, the brain being scattered about the bottom of the shaft.

Those reporters really knew how to put you off your tea in those days.
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Old 15-03-2014, 03:21 PM
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Burials St Lawrence, Warkworth:

William Douglass of Amble, buried February 14, 1841, aged 35 years;

Andrew Stephenson of Radcliffe Terrace, buried March 16, 1845, aged 45 years.
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Old 15-03-2014, 03:23 PM
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Those reporters really knew how to put you off your tea in those days.
Yes, I've noticed they don't hold back. These days you get a warning on the news saying you might see dead bodies when they're reporting from a war zone.
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Here in Thailand every gory detail is seen!As soon as there is an accident the TV cameras are there and its all over TV later.No respect for the family at all.Could be because they are Bhuddists?You see road accidents as well as suicides or people who fall from balconys,its all there!!l
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Janwhin, anything in your notes for Richard Graham 1897-10-30?

Famous amble butcher.

Bit of a horror story this one I think, including drink, drownings, dredgers and body parts. [just run-of-the-mill for Amble]
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