Newlands 𝗖𝗛𝗜𝗠𝗡𝗘𝗬 𝗙𝗔𝗟𝗟, (Dec 1882). 𝟓𝟒 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐝!

𝗙𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝘂𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝘄𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗳𝗹𝘆 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗮 𝗷𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝘄𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝟭𝟴𝟴𝟮.

𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗶𝘁𝗲 - 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 - 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲𝘀

𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝘄𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟱𝟰 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗮𝘆.

𝗠𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗮𝗳𝗲𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝗩𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗠𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘀.

𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝐔𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞 𝐂𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐲, 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐭𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞.
Grave found by Christopher Lawson and Cliff Tasker.

𝗡𝗲𝘄𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘀 : https://www.undercliffecemetery.co.uk...

𝗩𝗲𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗰𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱
he inquest began on 9 January. One reporter wrote that ‘a painfully pathetic incident was narrated by one of the witnesses’, a young widow named Sarah Hancock, whose husband, John, a stone mason from Derbyshire, had recently died, leaving her with two small daughters, Margaret and Annie, and a thirteen-year-old son, James Henry. She said that as he was leaving, just before 6am to go to work at the mill where he was employed as a doffer, James had said to her: ‘Don’t let me go this morning, someone will be killed at that place before breakfast time.’ His mother had replied: ‘It’s my rent week this week and thou must go.’

When James stated that he’d seen the chimney move in the wind, she continued: ‘The masters know better than such as ye. They will never put you in danger’. The newspaper commented: ‘We trust that the persons responsible for his safety will not go unpunished.’ Despite evidence that the owners had known of the dangerous state of the chimney, a verdict of accidental death was found.

𝗦𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝘀 𝘄𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
James Henderson was the father of two of the girls killed in the accident and in 1884 he took Sir Edward Ripley, Ripley’s brothers and a Mr Taylor to court. The case appeared before Justice Manisty and jury at Leeds summer assizes. Henderson was a wool comber working for Greenwoods, a firm which rented part of Ripley’s mill. His two daughters, Mary and Sarah Jane, worked as drawers for the firm of Sugden & Briggs, also in the mill complex. Mary earned 7s 6d a week whilst Sarah Jane was a half-timer, working part of the day in the mill and spending the rest of the day in school, earned 3s 6d, though their colleague, James Nicholls told the court that their wages would soon have risen to 11s and 9s respectively.

This was an important consideration since most families at the time relied heavily on children’s earnings to support the family. Henderson also had five other, younger, children to look after. The two girls worked from six in the morning to half past five or six at night. After their death the Ripley firm paid their funeral expenses and gave seven weeks wages as compensation.

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