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“Let My Quick Fate a Warning Be”………Fatal Transport Accidents in the West Midlands 1820 -1920.
  • Erasmus Darwin House,
    Beacon Street,
    Lichfield,
    Staffs
    WS13 7AD
Lecture presented by Quintin Watt at Erasmus Darwin House.

This illustrated presentation deals with various accidents that involved the region’s stage-coaches, canals, railways and trams. What ‘Health & Safety’ lessons were learnt from these many tragic mishaps?

Tickets £10.

Tickets include Tea and Coffee.

Quintin taught History at a high school in Bromsgrove for 39 years. He has completed two Masters Degrees, in West Midlands Regional History (1993) and Britain and the First World War (2022).

Quintin has written several articles for local history magazines. He has also edited two books:

  • ‘The Bromsgrove Guild – An Illustrated History’ (1999)
  • ‘Wolverhampton’s Great War, 1914 to 1921’ (2020)

Quintin served as secretary and chairman of the Bromsgrove Society’s Local History Group and the Wolverhampton Society, and is currently minute secretary for the Black Country Society.

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