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toybulldog wrote:

Reminds me of this which was instrumental in bringing about Emergency Exits.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Hall_disaster

Our health and safety standards usually stem from tragedies and such. In todays age its easy to look back and wonder just what the heck they were thinking, but as in the Gillingham Fire story, these type of demonstrations were put on all around the area. They truly thought it was safe. Sadly for those killed, they were wrong. And you’d think this put an end to this type of demonstration but I have found newspaper articles which indicate that afterwards some of the surrounding communities were all set to go ahead with the same show!

[Lori.o]

Thanks for your replies its is appreciated. We have done both those things. The local Kent on Sunday paper did publish an article on July 11th and I have put tree’s for all 15 into ancestry. We have been able to contact 7 of the victims families so far. We are working towards having a memorial placed in the park where this event happened and well as having the victims graves repaired as they have fallen into serious disrepair.
The link for the newspaper is on the home page of the web site.

Thanks

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Sorry, I realize I did not spell “tragedy” correctly in my subject line. :(

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