179 Powis Street (Edward Street 1832)
Woolwich
020 8854 0259
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Dover Telegraph and Cinque Ports General Advertiser, Saturday 25 August 1849.
Final accident on the North Kent Railway.
The half-past eight o'clock train from London arrived on Sunday
evening safely at Woolwich, the station of
which place was much crowded on both sides. The entrance to the
platform debouches on the down train. This
train has just begun to start for Gravesend when a frightful scream
was heard - a woman have fallen from the
platform between the carriages. The last two carriages passed over
her chest. For a moment the concourse of
people seem too horrified to pick her up. She was, however, conveyed
into the station, but soon died. As the
wheels of the carriage went over her, they were distinctly seen to
rise and fall. On Tuesday, Mr. C. J. Carttar,
Coroner for Kent, held an inquest at the "Castle Tavern," Woolwich,
touching the death of the deceased, Hannah
Murphy, who, it appears, was the wife of a labouring man.
From the evidence that appeared that the deceased, with her husband,
and three or four friends, natives of the
Emerald Isle, had been enjoying themselves at Woolwich during the
afternoon, and, after paying visits to half a
dozen different public houses, were returning to the railway station
in order to proceed to London, when, by
some accident, they got separated. The deceased, imagining that her
husband had taken his tickets and gone
through the station, hastened after him, as she supposed, and
finding a train alongside the platform, she
grasped hold of one of third-class carriages, in order to obtain a
seat within it. The train was in motion at the
time, and the deceased, continuing to hold on, was dragged along a
few paces, and then fell between two
carriages, in such a position that a part of the train passed over
her chest, and caused instant death. It
appeared that the train deceased attempted to get into was going to
Gravesend from London, and just in the
opposite direction to that in which deceased wanted to go. Evidence
having been given to show that every
proper precaution was taken for the preservation of the passengers
from injury, the Coroner remarked that the
accident appeared to him to have a risen entirely through the
woman's own negligence. The poor creature
appeared to have missed her husband, and without knowing whether the
carriage alongside the platform
belonged to the up or down train, she had run forward and attempted
to get into one of them whilst it was in
motion. No regulation of any railway company could possibly avert
acts of this kind on the part of headstrong
passengers, and he felt it due to the South Eastern Company to say
that, as far as his experience went, he
believed their regulations were equal to those of any company in the
kingdom; they carried, he believed, over
the Greenwich branch, more passengers than any other railway in the
kingdom, especially at Easter and
Whitsuntide, and, as far as he knew he believed they had never
before had a fatal accident to a passenger upon
their line. Mr Finnegan, the Superintendent of the company, who was
in attendance, said it was quite true, they
never had. The jury expressed themselves satisfied, and returned a
verdict of "Accidental Death.
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Kentish Gazette, 10 January 1854.
A coroner's inquest was held Friday at the "Castle Tavern," before,
C. J. Carttar, Esq., coroner, to inquire into the
circumstances attending the death of John Hayes, aged 40, in the
employ of Mesers. Kirk and Parry; and a youth named
James Elias Jarratt, about 14 years of age, who were drowned by the
upsetting of a boat on the Thames, near the North
Woolwich Pier.
From the evidence of three of the men who were in the boat with the
deceased. it appeared that seven men and the lad
Jarratt got into the boat, belonging to the barge, to disembark on
the Essex side of the river, and were hastening towards the
shore, when one of the witnesses fell down on the side of the boat
and upset it, and the whole eight persons were immersed
in the river, and Hayes and Jarratt were unfortunately drowned.
Verdict:— Accidental Death. |
LICENSEE LIST
THUNDER William 1823-40+
RICHARDS William Joseph 1852-58+
BICKERSTAFF H A 1862+
SMITH William Horrocis 1866+
HARRIS Ann to May/1869
HARRIS Richard May/1869+
HINE Henry 1874+
KEEBLE William Henry 1882+
DANIELS David 1891-1901+ (age 45 in 1891)
FOSS Charles Thomas 1904-11+
NAYLOR George John 1913-21+
BATLEY William James 1934-44+
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From the Pigot's Directory 1823
From
the Pigot's Directory 1832-33-34
Census
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