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Station Road 3
Mirfield Station Rd

Someone beat me to it!
Both these views of BRITANNIA MILLS in Station Road are taken from the loading door of Crowthers Maltings. The first picture was probably taken around the turn of the century and the second in the mid- 1920's.
The true name of the canal bridge in the foreground is Bull Bridge, rumored to have taken this name from days long ago when bull baiting events were held near by.
The modern picture isn't from exactly the same position but since the maltings burned down in the 1960's it not too bad an attempt!

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19th March 1862

MAN KILLED AT M I R F I E L D .—

On Monday afternoon, Henry Byewater, painter, was whitewashing the engine-house of the Britannia Mill, belonging to Mr. J. M. Johnson, near the Mirfield Railway Station, when it is supposed, through the scaffolding giving way, he was precipitated to the floor, a distance of thirty feet, and was killed. The left arm was broken and severely lacerated, and his neck was also dislocated. He was left by Nobles, the engine-tenter, at twenty' minutes to six alive and doing his work, and on returning at six to start the engine, Nobles found him on the floor as stated. He leaves a wife and four small children.

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8th January 1862

T H E SHAFT ACCIDENT AT NEWTOWN MILL, MIRFIELD.—

An inquest was held at the Forester's Arms, Huddersfield, yesterday evening, before J. R. Ingram, Esq., deputy coroner, on the body of Christopher Smith, plasterer, Dewsbury. It appeared that the deceased, on Tuesday, week, was working in Newtown Mill, Mirfield, whitewashing over a shaft, when it caught him by his Guernsey smock and he was thrown round the shaft repeatedly. The engine was immediately stopped, the man released, attended by two medical men, and conveyed to the Huddersfield Infirmary. He died on Sunday afternoon from injuries sustained by severe bruises on his feet and a scalp wound on the forehead, resulting from his being violently thrown against a window whilst rapidly revolving with the shaft. It appears from the evidence that the deceased had been twice cautioned against approaching the shaft; that the mill had been closed four days for whitewashing purposes, and on several days only kept running from eight a.m. to four p.m. on the same account; that had there been a little management on the part of the whitewasher, the room in which the shafting was placed might have been whitewashed when the machinery was at a standstill; also, that if ordinary care had been used by the deceased himself after the cautions he had received he would not have been caught. Under these circumstances the jury returned a verdict of accidental death, and recommended greater precautions to be taken as to what rooms were whitewashed whilst machinery was in motion in future, but abstained from censuring any person in connection with the death of the deceased.

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10th July 1852

ACCIDENT.—

Yesterday week a serious accident befel one of the daughters of Joseph Sykes, of Lee Green, in Mirfield. She had been sent by her mother to Low Mill, occupied by Messrs. Day and Fox, with her sister's dinner, and while she was there went into a room in which a "Teazer" was at work, and although she had been cautioned to keep away from it, she went so near as to be caught, and both her arms were torn off above the elbows. She was removed home, and three surgeons called in to attend her, and is now doing well. Not the slightest blame is attached to Messrs. Day and Fox, or to any of the workmen, for the girl had been told to stay out of the room only a short time before the accident occurred.

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30th August 1856

MIRFIELD.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT MIRFIELD.—

On Tuesday last, an inquest was held at the house of Mr. Ernest Kindler, the New Inn, Newtown, Mirfield, before Thomas Taylor, Esq., coroner, on the body of Richard Fearnley, aged 22 years. The deceased was employed at the mill of Sir. Edward Hemingway, and, about ten o'clock on the morning of the previous day, along with a person named Crabtree, arrived to clean a carder. Crabtree threw the strap off the machine, and by some means deceased was caught and taken twice round the drum. The strap then broke, and he fell on the floor quite dead, having in his way round the drum struck his head against and knocked down a steam pipe. A verdict of "Accidental Death" was returned.

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