John Pullin

Research on 19thC engine drivers at Leicester Uni. Football (AFC Wimbledon) and cricket. Once a writer on industry. Toby and Hazel’s Grandad. Cynthia’s relict

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@RWLDproject Thank you for the opportunity. I hope you didn’t frighten the children too much!!

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Abbots Ripton - an anniversary and a connection https://t.co/lV4cnuEDAj via @RWLDproject

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This gets to the nub of why some of us, five years on, won’t forget or forgive. https://t.co/u0hKxKsogU.

[Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK @CovidJusticeUK]

Our statement following the publication of the Covid Inquiry Module 2 report into Core UK decision-making and political governance:

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@ClarkeMicah @DarkSummer777 Phil Hearse? Steve Crook? Mark Hackett?

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@RHummBooks @BrianStovold https://t.co/fZlR15uZE9 We’ve missed being able to ask him how he did it by about five years.

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@RHummBooks @ovsbulleid Itchingfield Jct box was originally north of the junction: seems to have been relocated to the fork of the junction between 1910s OS maps and 1930s maps. There was an interesting accident there in 1866 in which the signalman's inconsistent evidence was crucial.

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@RHummBooks Mendlesham?

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@RWLDproject …and in Streatham. 🧐

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@RWLDproject @BNArchive Right, I’ve now found the unfortunate William Burton in a rather scruffy bit of the 1861 census. I’ll put a few words together on him and his demise over the next few days and you’re welcome to do as you will with it.

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@RWLDproject @BNArchive I only know what I’ve read in @BNArchive, and I haven’t pinpointed William (Bill) Burton in my driver database: there are others of that name, including at least one NER driver, but they appear not to be him.

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@RWLDproject @BNArchive This case is particularly rare in that the coroner’s court recorded a verdict of ‘wilful murder’, although it absolved from blame a motley crowd of gangers, locals and station staff who gave contradictory evidence, plus, of course, the railway company.

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@friendschurches 8508

[Prof. Christina Pagel - @chrischirp.bsky.social @chrischirp]

And here he breaks down while explaining the absolute trauma experienced by smaller hospitals in particular - the "healthier" ICU patients were transferred out, leaving them coping with so much death.

They felt so alone.

[Prof. Christina Pagel - @chrischirp.bsky.social @chrischirp]

Prof @Kevin_Fong giving the most devastating and moving testimony to the Covid Inquiry of visiting hospital intensive care units at the height of the second wave in late Dec 2020.

The unimaginable scale of death, the trauma, the loss of hope.
Please watch this 2min clip.

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@DrAdamChapman Frederick Smith (master baker) was in Gravesend workhouse in the 1881 census. He was dead by 1890, when wife Ann (nee Coe) got married to a horsekeeper called Whitehead at New Cross in SE London. Ann was herself in the workhouse (Strood Union) in 1912.

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@DrAdamChapman The Smiths don't have a child older than Charles in the 1861 census. They did have a servant called Ann Maria Martin in 1861.

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@DrAdamChapman Where is this (geographically)?

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@David__Osland It's the Canute legacy.