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On Cross Gates Road, by the roundabout at the Ring Road are 3 small stones with a simple inscription. Around them on the ground are metal tiles, each bearing the name of one of the women. In February 2025, a blue plaque was unveiled in Pontefract commemorating Barnbow munitions worker Mary Lucy Turner who died of TNT poisoning.
Cross Gates (often spelled Crossgates) [1] is a suburb in east Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. The area sits between Seacroft and Swarcliffe to the north, Whitkirk and Colton to the south, Killingbeck to the west and Austhorpe to the south east.
Barnbow in Cross Gates was a large ammunitions factory producing ten thousand shells per week by August 1915. The worst tragedy ever to happen within Leeds (in terms of fatalities) happened at the Barnbow tragedy of 5 December 1916.
Male friend driver, who later said he'd been blinded by dust in an eye, went off-road and over a 75-foot (23 m) embankment, she was crushed under the car. Norman Brookman: 1884 1949 65 years Australian politician car South Road, Noarlunga, South Australia: Head-on collision with 4t truck. Herb Brooks: 1937 2003 66 years American
Two men are killed, including driver John Axon, who is awarded a posthumous George Cross for his actions in staying with the train after control had been lost. [97] [98] March 15 – Finland – Due to a failure in the transmission of train orders, two expresses collide head-on at Kuurila, about 30 miles (50 km) south of Tampere. There is a ...
July 6 – Argentina – Tragedy of Alpatacal: A trainload of Chilean army cadets were traveling from their school in Santiago, Chile to attend the dedication of a monument in Buenos Aires. At Alpatacal in Mendoza Province , the special was signaled with detonators to stop and wait for the Internacional coming from Buenos Aires.
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The 48-year-old royal hairdresser was found shot dead in his car on 9 November 1970. A motive is not known, but a private detective who spoke to him over the telephone three days earlier said Mizelas told him he wanted him to keep tabs on two men whose names he would disclose at a meeting scheduled for 10 November. [13] December 1970: Margaret ...