electrocution!!!

[bobgraham]

Do we have anyone down in workington that can call in on the news and star office and search the archive?  The staff are up for it usually and may even remember the incident - some must be as old as me  ;>}
bob

[Subaru]

Pels, I don't suppose you've been watching the reports about the fire at Winscales have you?  Whenever there's bad publicity about Sellafield/Winscales, everybody starts panicking about it, and imagining us Cumbrians who live nearby with green bodies or two heads

I had the same thought about electric pylons, or maybe a railway line, could be anything really.  There are plenty of fields all around Whitehaven/Workinton with electric fences, lots of countryside.  I doubt it had anything to do with Winscales unless he was a greenpeace supporter.

[Pels.]

Pels, I don't suppose you've been watching the reports about the fire at Winscales have you?  Whenever there's bad publicity about Sellafield/Winscales, everybody starts panicking about it, and imagining us Cumbrians who live nearby with green bodies or two heads

You mean you don't? 

To be honest I was just agreeing with Ricky and meles - more to stress the safety of electric fences, having said that I wouldn't be so inclined to line up and touch one now!    I've got more sense! 

[emmsthheight]

Hi all

I could do with a look in the News & Star Archive, but I don't think it will be yet, but what I can do is look in the coroner's inquests details up here.  I don't know how late they go.

It might be in the Cumberland Pacquet as we, which we have got.

By the way, where is the Workington Archive, Bob?

Good luck with the search.

Emms.

[bobgraham]

I just called in the News and Star office which was on Oxford St. Has it moved?
bob

[Subaru]

Pels, having been born and bred ten minutes from Sellafield, I've got used to it   Also my husband and eldest daughter both work there.  His 2 brothers and their wives work there.  My next door neighbour works there, and most of the people on our housing estate.

We would be in a bad way if it wasn't for Sellafield.  There's nothing much else around here job-wise.  You could walk across the street and get knocked down tomorrow, so no I don't worry about it

[emmsthheight]

Hi
All.

No I don't know that it's moved.  I'd never been there in the first place, but when I get chance I will.  It's a case of fitting round family when you're out and about.  And parking!!

Emms.

[bobgraham]

Emms
parking? In  wookinton? i thought they had knocked down the old bus station and you could park on that!
Grandad moved from elterwater (that started this thread) to the back of the Ritz cinema (something square) with the best chippy in workington (apart from the one on john st) in the corner (Blue Dolphin?- I did say the alzeimers was winning).
For a few weeks I went to John St School but now it's a shopping centre
Subaru,
I watched the calderhall/winscale/sellafield prog and fully expected to see one of my relatives featured. i can't name him as he is not on the net but at 70 odd and an analytical chemist there, he would have been involved.
On the other side of the family, a grandparent was a busdriver, the day of the fire and he took people away. Hours later, family history says, police walked in and took him and whatever he had touched awy. Apparentley they took the grandchilds carrycot but left the grandchild!!
I'll check the veracity of this story over the weekend as although the grandparent is no longer with us all the other players are.
bob

[Subaru]

I don't have a connection with anybody involved on the day of the disaster, but my dad was one of the bricklayers who built the chimneys that were knocked down the other day

He was there when the queen came to open them.  He said she had really blue eyes - I said it must have been all the blue blood