Monday, 14 March 2011

Name that spells tragedy

Article appeared in Rochdale Observer dated 12th March 1983

The name Mitchell Hey has spelled tragedy twice in one hundred years for a Rochdale family.
Mr George Ashworth, 44 a weaver at Mitchell Hey Mills, died 1n 1884 when a loom and part of a collapsing wall fell on him. His Granddaughter Mrs Dora Stocks aged 83, died of head injuries last December after a window fell on her from the seventeenth floor of Mitchell Hey, College Bank.

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  1. How spooky is that.Is that just.a strange coincidence or something more sinister or supernatural?

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