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Originally Posted by annesingleton
Does anyone have any more information about this tragedy?
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Just found this, in the Telegraph.
'Then there was the fire in Accrington in 1867, which claimed the lives of nine children at James Duckworth’s knitting place under the railway arches of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway.
The works were on the ground floor, with a catholic school for 100 pupils above.
An inquest at the Crown Hotel gave the verdict of the children being burnt to death, but there was no evidence to show how the fire started.'
The dark side of the Red Rose county (From Lancashire Telegraph)