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Central Coast · Accidents

Accidents, 1921

37 stories in Central Coast's papers · page 1 of 2

Shocking Motor Fatality

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 6 January 1921 · page 19

A shocking fatality occurred at Raymond Terrace last week end, Mr. Arthur Hampton, a hotelkeeper at Cessnock, his son, four years of age,…

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Bathing Fatality at Woy Woy

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 6 January 1921 · page 8

A sad accident happened in the, Woy Woy Public Baths on Monday afternoon, December 27, when a boy named, Robert Leslie Hamilton Pascoe, aged…

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fearful Railway fatality. Four Persons Killed. Cut Down by Train on Woy Woy Bridge

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 6 January 1921 · page 6

Gosford was horror-stricken on Monday night last when the news was telephoned through that Mrs. McKenzie, wife of Mr. Victor J. McKenzie, one…

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Woy Bridge Disaster. Coroner's Inquest — Accidental Deaths — Railway Officials Exonerated

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 13 January 1921 · page 8

On Monday morning last, at Gosford Courthouse, the District Coroner, Mr. W. E. Kirkness, J.P., held an inquest regarding the recent Woy Woy Bridge…

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Bathing Fatality at Restwell

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 20 January 1921 · page 12

Victor Mullens, aged 13 years, was drowned while bathing on the Restwell Beach, Woy Woy, on Saturday morning last. Shortly after 11 o'clock…

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Woy. Another Drowning Fatality

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 10 February 1921 · page 17

On Sunday morning last, about 10.30, a man named Sydney Spencer Davies was fishing from the rocks at Big Box Head, when he was seen to fall about…

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Woy Fatality. Body Recovered

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 24 February 1921 · page 12

A few weeks ago a returned soldier named Sydney Davies, aged 24, fell from Box Head cliff into the sea, and although every effort was made the…

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Drowned at Terrigal. Washed Off the Rocks

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 17 March 1921 · page 20

Mr. Alfred H. Lawson, aged 51, a member of the firm of Messrs Lawson Bros., Ltd., furniture auctioneers, of William Street, Sydney, went to…

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Singular Accident

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 31 March 1921 · page 20

A singular accident happened in the woodchop at the recent Coff's Harbor Sports. One of the contestants named Connelly was just finishing his block…

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Accidentally Killed

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 7 April 1921 · page 9

Mr. Thomas Alexander Watt, late of Springfield, Gosford, was accidentally killed at Turramurra, near Hornsby, at 9 o 'clock on Thursday morning, 31st…

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Drowning Fatality. Brave Efforts to Recover Body

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 21 April 1921 · page 16

On Sunday, 10th instant, a man named Percy Albert Rice was drowned at Patonga Heads, Broken Bay. The body was subsequently recovered, and…

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Burning Accident

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 21 April 1921 · page 10

Miss Mary Jopson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Jopson, of Gosford, was the victim of a severe burning accident on Tuesday evening. She was…

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Painful Accident

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 5 May 1921 · page 16

While competing in the local Woodchop on Saturday last, 8. Kelly, of Sydney, a returned soldier, had the misfortune to meet with a very painful…

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The Comet. No Collision Likely. Intense Meteor Shower

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 12 May 1921 · page 14

The Journal of the British Astronomical Association of January last refers to the "Extravagant statements about the approaching return of Pons…

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Fortunes by Accident

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 26 May 1921 · page 6

It was the burning of a starch factory that first revealed the adhesive qualities of scorched starch and introduced cheap gum…

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21 Horses Drowned

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 2 June 1921 · page 5

A draft of 81 horses consigned from Queensland to the Maitland saleyards were on their way to paddocks at Melville, when a number rushed into the…

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Painful Accident

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 2 June 1921 · page 10

Mr. W. Beveridge, of Erina, met with a painful accident on Friday, being thrown from a vehicle. He had a close call, indeed, the wheel just…

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Painful Accident

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 16 June 1921 · page 1

Mr. Charles Kay, of Terrigal, a Council employee working in Pateman's Gang, while engaged felling trees on the side of Matcham road, met with a…

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Railway Fatality. Young Man Commits Suicide

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 4 August 1921 · page 5

The body of John Adams, aged 19, was found on the up passenger line near High-street station, Maitland, on Friday morning at about seven o'clock…

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The Axe in Accidents

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 4 August 1921 · page 8

The rapid increase in the number of motor cars will soon necessitate educative measures for public safety. In America wonderful results have been…

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