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Title: Coroner or Newspaper Report
Post by: chuffinelle on Tuesday 30 September 08 21:46 BST (UK)

William James HARRIS died in Hammerwich Hospital on the 5th Feb 1925. He was injured in an accident on the 27th Sep 1924 at the no 2 Pit of the Coppice Collery.  An inquest was held on the 10th Feb 1925.

Can anyone advise me where to find details of what happened?  Would a report of the inquest be in a local newspaper?  If so, which paper and where am I likely to find a copy?  Are any of the local newspaper archives on-line?

I live in south Bucks and am not familiar with the Hammerwich area.  Any help or advice would be appreciated.

 

Title: Re: Coroner or Newspaper Report
Post by: PaulineJ on Tuesday 30 September 08 22:09 BST (UK)

google is your friend in these cases.

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42362

http://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/leisure/libraries/lichfieldmicrofilm2006.htm

Pauline