Re: News extracts: July 4, 1828: Dreadful catastrophe in 'High Life' [Langham and Kenyon, in Sussex]

Alison Kilpatrick wrote:
Ian Goddard wrote:
Alison Kilpatrick wrote:
Transcribed from the 11 July 1828 edition of The Newry Commercial
Telegraph, by permission of The British Library:
%>< Sun, July 5.

We have authority to state that the paragraphs ... are almost totally incorrect.

As is the dateline:

ian:~cal july 1828
July 1828
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28 29 30 31


!!!
Might've been a slip on my part, keying in a "5" versus a "4". Might also been a slip on theirs! I'll have to check (sometime).

It's possible Newry had its own timezone ;)

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