Black Country (Bilston) Friends and Neighbours - more names

[judijee]

Hiya Willow

Yes, I'll contact Wolverhampton Archives and ask them if they can identify the street name.   Thanks for looking!

- judijee

[giraffe]

Any ideas how I could track down reports of William Wellings industrial accident and that of Joseph Bunce who died on 29th August 1891, although apparently the accident had happened a week or so previously? It's just conceivable that they were both mortally injured in the same "explosion". I've tried all the obvious on the internet.....but then Willow made that breakthrough where I had failed. Just goes to show that more than one working on something or taking a break and going back to a problem often results in a solution.
Thanks again.JJ

JJ, I'm sure I read an account (with photo) of the devastation when a large boiler exploded and collapsed at Bilston. I think it was on the Wolverhampton Archives website, under Bilston history. I will check through my docs and see if I still have it. I don't think it mentioned any names though.
Giraffe

[Willow 4873]

The wall above the tram line behind St Leonards has a poem about a boiler exploding on it - I wonder if it relates to this incident? (Was only put up in the last few years)

Willow x

[JDGen]

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Thanks

Jean