Inquest Reports Accidental Deaths At London Sights
An inquest at Dr Stone's Clifford Street records William Wilkinson's fatal fall from a skylight on a Red Lion Square project with a verdict of accidental death. A second inquest in Wisle-end found Joshua Denning dead in a Whitechapel well after gas exposure. Hydrophobia claims Robert Wilson at London Hospital inquest. Reddy Dieud? man ends in mental derangement at St George's Hospital. Another drowning near Horsleydown, Thames yields accidental death verdict.
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Stone
Clifford-street
Bond-street
Higgs
New Bond-street
Foun Air
Sir John Barleycorn
White’s-row
Wisle-end
Baker
Joshua Denning
George Agent
North-street
Clapham
Graham
Whitechapel
John Cole
Cole
Burchell
Hitechapel-Road
London Hospital
Robert Wilson
James Adams
Plaistow
Essex
Win
Adams
Mr. Young
Marquis of
Byers
Young
R. FE. Brown
St. John’s
Horsleydown
George Frederick Savage
Thames
Custom House
Billingspate
Billingsgate
Blackfriars Bridge Repair Progress Near Completion
The greater part of Blackfriars Bridge repairs is finished with six of eight piers completed. Work includes cofferdams around central piers, granite revetment, new cragleith parapets, lowered pavement, and smoother approaches to improve strength and safety.
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Thames
London Bridge
Waterloo Bridge
Blackfriarsbridge
Common Council
Messrs. Walker and Burgess
Portland
Blackfriars Bridge
Old London Bridge
Roche Portland
Surrey Arch
Cragleith
Edinburgh
Rotherhithe
London and Greenwich Railway Bridge Construction Details
The article notes coffer-dams filled by barges for embankment work, with 30 000 cubic feet of timber and 10 000 cubic feet of granite per pier. Repairs cost about £90 000, including £30 000 for coffer-dams and foundations. The bridge began 1760, took ten years, spans 1 035 feet, carriageway 28 feet, footways 7 feet each. The central arch apron is 100 feet, max height 68 feet. Mylne designed it.
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London and Greenwich
Mylne
Thames
Five Children and their Mother Die by Arsenic Pudding
The Preston Chronicle reports a tragic Goosnargh case in which Edward Sanderson his wife and their five children all became gravely ill after eating pudding believed poisoned by the mother. Five children Eleanor 12 Daniel 9 Margaret 6 Robert 4 and William 3 died while the mother died later between 9 and 10 pm. the mother confessed to arsenic poisoning due to debt and neighborly alienation. An inquest is planned with post mortems and pudding analysis, and locals are shocked by the calamity.
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Preston Chronicle
Fairhurst
Goosnargh
Garstang
Edward Sanderson
Sanderson
John Brewer
Little Inglewhite
Messrs. Smith and Clarkson
Eleanor
Daniel James
Margaret
Robert
William
Mr. Gradwell
Claughton-hall Chapel
R. Palmer
Farington
William Whittle
Lancaster
Lord Bishop of Exeter to visit Scilly Islands
The Meteor steamer under Lt Pritchard was ordered to attend the Lord Bishop of Exeter who plans to embark for the Scilly Islands on Thursday morning. The prelate will be joined by his lady, two chaplains, the registrar and Archdeacon of Cornwall for the consecration of a new church at St Mary’s. he plans to depart Scilly on Monday. The Birmingham Railway entrance at Euston square is praised for its grandeur from close but appears poor from afar. A tragic accident near Rutherglen involved a farmer’s child found dead in a boiler with bones later recovered denuded of flesh.
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Pritchard
Exeter
Scilly Islands
Falmouth
Plymouth
Cornwall
St. Mary’s
Scilly
Cornwall Royal Gazette
Birmingham
Euston Square
Antis
Yorkshire Bramley
Rutherglen
United Kingdom
British Empire
Westminster
Europe
West Middlesex Assurance Company
William Ho32e
Independent West Middlesex Life and Fire Insurance Rates Reduced
The Independent West Middlesex Assurance Company announces a thirty percent annual rate cut on fire life and annuity premiums, claiming a public saving of about £500,600 per year. Rates are shown for life assurance and life annuity arrangements with example premiums and annuity grants.
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West Middlesex Assurance Company
Bazaar
Baker-street
Portman-quate
London
Abbey-street
Dublin
Albany-street
Edinburgh
Saint Vincent-street
Glasgow
i _ Aunhers
Samuel Eyre
John Wilson
G. E. Wiliams
Resspeny SceneTany
William Hole
Bankens—Cashiers
Bank of England
Patsiersa- Misnhall
Beancharte Square
Ohn Ogle Ese
Manchester-street
Beacrexs
James
Devereux Hustler
Park-street
Sunveyver
Simon Thurston
Southampton-street
Bloomsbury Square
SobiciTons
Messry
Williams and Som
Hart-street
Bloomabury Square
West Middlesex Assurance Company Tey
Middlesex Assurance Company
Weat Middlesex Assurance Company
Sooiery
England
Fire Department
Uea
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Thos
Bedford
Dromwond
Sarmuel Eyre
Robt
Ferguson
Thos. Hope
Thos. Knowles
H. R. Perkins
Thos. Price
Wm. Reid
E. W.taylor
Wm. Whittaker
Whiting
Chancery Court
Queen’s Bench
Common Pleas
Exchequer
Messrs. Hannay & Co
Oxford Street
Morison
British College OF Health
New Road
Kidd
Tavistock-street
Covent-garden
Warwick-lane
Paternoster-row
Bancks and Co
Manchester
Philip
South Castle-street
Liverpool
W. G.stafford
Doncaster
J. Riches
Norwich
J. Norton
Bristol
R. Loder
Brighton
J. W. Hawthorn
Nottingham
Mr. Kidd
Amire
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IDD
George
Robert Cruikshank
Seymour
Bonner
Rica
Morning Post
W. Kipp
Boulogne
Cruikshank
France
Paris
Calais
Ido
Coast Journal
Turkey
Monsieur Haauienjambes
Hotel du Roi
Literary Gazette
Cour Journal
Lapy
Caroline C
Robert Seymour
Thompson
Kc, &c
Kipp
Price
New Monthly
Atheneum
Casey
Archer
Aimwell
Metropolitan Magazine
Nruikshank
Cruixshane
Morocco
Cruikshane
Buikshank
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J. Nennis
Fetterlane Holker
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