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Surname
CONNELL
Forename
Nicholas
Day
02
Month
01
Year
1935
Age
15
Occupation
Clay Mine Worker
Mine/Quarry Name
Milnquarter Fireclay Mine
Mineral Worked
Fireclay
Owner
John G. Stein & Co.
Location
High Bonnybridge
County
Stirlingshire
Details of Event
2 January 1935: High Bonnybridge Works Tragedy - The resumption of work after the New Year holidays at the Milnquarter Brick Works, High Bonnybridge, yesterday, was marred by a fatal accident. Shortly before the lunch interval a 15-year-old pithead worker, Nicholas Connell, Waverley Place, High Bonnybridge, was engaged at a powerful clay crushing machine, when he was drawn in between two pinion wheels forming part of the crushing, apparatus and fatally injured. [Scotsman 3 January 1935]