BRIDGEND 1881
BRIDGEND 1881
( Photo 1 ) . Park Street , Bridgend
THE GOOD OLD DAYS.
A year in the life of Bridgend town.
It was a time when, The then prince of Wales ( Albert, Prince of Wales, who became King Edward VII, the second child and first son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha) stopped off at Pyle railway station, and biting someones ear in a fight would cost you £4, and the result of being found in the road, drunk with no money and a broken leg would get you carted off to the workhouse.
Bridgend 1881
4th June 1881
BRIDGEND
Charge OF embezzlement.—
A man named Matthew Hopkin, in the employ of Mr J. Yorwerth, leather manufacturer, was charged with selling a quantity of leather and not accounting for the full value of the money received. It appeared that a man named Hughes bought leather at the shop and paid 7s for it, but accused only accounted for 5s. The Bench ordered him to pay a fine of £5, or one mouth's imprison meat.
12th August 1881
BRIDGEND.
The Bridgend Flower and Dog Show this week was well attended, but the number of the exhibits and the quality were not so good as last year.
17th December 1881
George Evans Taylor, Bridgend, was sent to gaol for seven days for being drunk and disorderly in Nolton-street, on the previous Tuesday evening.
29th December 1881
BRIDGEND.
TIIF. RAILWAY ACCIDENT-
An inquest was held at the police-station, Bridgend, on Wednesday, before Mr R. LI. Grover, on the body of Walter Howell, an examiner employed by the Great Western Railway, who was killed by a train passing over him at the Bridgend Station on Saturday. The jury returned a verdict of Accidental death.
3rd January 1881
BRIDGEND. ASSAULTS.-
Charles ratford, Bridgend, labourer, was charged by John Howell, of Newcastle, with assaulting him by biting him on the ear. The case was adjourned for the production of a witnesses, and the defendant was fined £4 including costs.
31st January 1881
BRIDGEND. POLICE-COURTS.
Walter George Parker was summoned by Catherine Watts, of Bridgend, to show cause why he should not contribute to the support of her illegitimate child. Defendant, who lives in Hertfordshire, did not appear, and an order was made for 28s 6d a week.
20th September 1881
BRIDGEND. SERIOUS INJURIES.—
On Sunday morning last a compositor, named M'Dermott, casually employed in the town, was found lying on the Rhiew in a very exhausted condition. On a medical man being sent for, it was found that the man had broken his leg in two places, and no money being found on him he was removed to the workhouse. It is stated that the man had been drinking, and had probably fallen through the window of his bedroom. He was too ill to give an account of the affair himself.
31st December 1881
SHOCKING FATAL ACCIDENT AT BRIDGEND.
A MAN'S LEGS CUT OFF.
On Saturday night a dreadful accident occurred at the Great Western Railway Station at Bridgend. A goods train had been shunted on to the up line to make room for a London passenger train which arrived about half-past eight (about I &n hour and a, half late). Walter Howells was engaged in examining the passenger train, and a, boy with a, grease-box stood near him. Both stood in the six-foot waiting the passing of the goods and passenger trains. The buffer of the guards' van attached to the passenger train knocked the grease-box from the boy's hand, striking Howells with such force that he fell with his legs under the goods train, and several trucks passed over him. He was conveyed home on a stretcher, and Dr. leahy (the company's doctor) and another doctor were at once sent for. They found that amputation was necessary, and while proceeding to take of the left leg, which was in a shocking condition, the poor fellow expired. The deceased had a wife and five children, and on Christmas- day the bereaved widow was confined of a sixth child. The deceased was a civil and obliging man, and much sympathy is felt at his untimely death and with his bereaved family.
31st December 1881
ESCAPE FROM BRIDGEND ASYLUM.
The Press Association" Bridgwater correspondent telegraphs on Thursday evening a man named Pawley was today found in the railway carriage on the Great Western Line Bridgwater, travelling with out a ticket. On being detained. He stated that he had escaped Iron Glamorganshire County Lunatic Asylum. His strange demeanour confirmed this statement, and the asylum authorities, being telegraphed to; replied that Pawley escaped last Monday, and they would send an attendant for him.
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22nd November 1881
BIGAMY AT ABERKENFIG.
Henry Williams, labourer, Aberkenfig was taken before Mr, H, J. Randall, at Bridgend, on Monday, and charged with feloniously intermarrying with Eliza Jacobs, widow, his wife Ann Williams being then alive. Prisoner was first. married at the Registry Office, Bridgend, on the 15th of March. 1880, and Last May he left his wife at Pontypridd and went to Aberkenfig where he obtained work, there became acquainted with Mrs, Jacobs and was married to her at the registry Office, Bridgend, on the 17th of October last, his Wife came down from Pontypridd last week, and, discovering that Williams was married to another woman, she gave information to, the police and he was arrested. He was committed to take his trial at the assizes.
23rd September 1881
BRIDGEND.
THE GUARD OF HONOU'R.—
The guard of honour, composed of the Bridgend and Cowbridge Rifle Volunteers, will be formed at Pyle, and not at Bridgend, Railway Station, on the occasion of the Prince of Wales's visit to Swansea. It is understood that his Royal Highness, who intends visiting Mr. C. R M, Talbot, M.P., will alight at Pyle Station, and will be driven from there to Margam Abbey.
CARDIFF TMES
October 1881
FATAL ACCIDENT NEAR BRIDGEND.
On the night of the 29th a fatal accident occurred at Bryncethin Works, near Bridgend, where the Barrow Company have been engaged some years. in sinking operations. A shift of eight men were engaged in walling a shaft when a fall of masonry took place, which carried the scaffold and the men to the bottom of the pit. Four dead bodies were recovered from the debris. Three men are badly injured, and a fourth escaped miraculously with on only a slight hurt.
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