Tag Archives: Accidents

The Bottomless Tram

Posted on April 15, 2019 by Roger Pocock

Quick Quotes 25.  The following quote is from a newspaper report in the Western Morning News, from 14th December 1898: Between nine and ten o’clock last evening a very usual and rather alarming mishap occurred in Devonport. As a tramcar was … Continue reading →

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Hot Air Balloon Crash

Posted on April 1, 2019 by Roger Pocock

Snippets 194. The Crystal Palace was a famous London landmark, built for the Great Exhibition of 1851.  After the Exhibition it was relocated from Hyde Park to Penge Common, where it stood until it was destroyed by fire in 1936.  … Continue reading →

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