Now! Then! 2024! - Yorkshire On This Day

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On Sunday evening last a fatal accident happened in the suburbs of the city of York. Mrs Douglas, a widow residing in Tanner Row, was walking on the city walls near North Street postern, in company with another elderly female. A sudden gust of wind arising, she slipped from the path and fell on the mound below, which caused her death in a few minutes. She was upwards of eighty years of age. It is a singular circumstance that her husband was killed by the sails of a mill about 28 years ago.

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Abbreviations:

• ER: East Riding
• GM: Greater Manchester
• NR: North Riding
• NY: North Yorkshire
• SY: South Yorkshire
• WR: West Riding
• WY: West Yorkshire

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On Sunday evening last, a fatal accident happened in the suburbs of the city of York. Mrs. Douglas, a widow residing in Tanner-row, was walking on the City walls near North-street Postern, in company with another elderly female; a sudden gust of wind arising, she slipped from the path, and fell on the mound below, which caused her death in a few minutes. She was upwards of eighty years of age. It is a singular circumstance that her husband was killed by the sails of a mill about 28 years ago.

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