FATAL ACCIDENT. - Dr. E.M. Grace held an inquest at the Royal George Inn on Tuesday evening on the body of William John King, of Crossways, near Thornbury. Deceased, who was 25 years of age, died the previous evening from injuries received through being knocked down by a horse and cart on Saturday evening. Dr. Williams, who attended deceased, attributed death to a fractured skull, and the jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death", exonerating the driver of the trap, who was present at the enquiry from any blame.
[Gloucester Citizen, Thursday 25 April 1901]
THORNBURY. A serious accident happened to Mrs. J.C. Smith, of Porch House, Thornbury, on Tuesday afternoon. When out riding on horseback between Kington and Oldbury-on-Severn, her horse, which was somewhat fresh, became restive, and threw Mrs. Smith to the ground. When she was discovered in the roadway her face was badly cut. She was conveyed to her residence, severely shaken and injured.
[Gloucester Citizen, Wednesday 22 April 1903]
Thornbury, 6th January 1905:
On Tuesday, before Admiral H.C.St. John and Mr. William Cullimore, Henry Jahn, a seaman, on tramp, was charged with stealing a tame fowl, value 3s, the property of Herbert James Watkins, at Rudgeway, in the parish of Olveston, on the 6th inst. Defendant, who had the fowl in his possession, was offering it for sale in Thornbury for 6d. Mrs. Watkins, prosecutor's wife, stated the fowl was hers. He was convicted and ordered to be imprisoned for 42 days with hard labour.
[Gloucester Journal, Saturday 14 January 1905]
Inquest into death at Grove's End tunnel, 9th August 1913:
"Accidental death" was the verdict returned on Saturday evening at the inquest on Edgar James William Ware, a Bristol boy, who was spending a holiday at Grove's End. He had been walking on the parapet of the wall at the mouth of Grove's End tunnel, and falling on to the railway fractured his skull.
[Gloucester Journal, Saturday 16 August, 1913]
COLLECTING BOX STOLEN AT ALVESTON. "It was a despicable thing to do," declared Supt. A.H. Carter at Thornbury Police Court, when prosecuting two soldiers for stealing a National Institute for the Blind collecting box, valued at £2 10s and 7s 3d in money from the bar of the Ship Hotel, Alveston, on March 4. There was a further charge against them of committing damage to the box.
Bdr. Ernest Edward Solca was fined a total of 10s and £1 16s 6d expenses and Bdr. Christopher Jack Gordon was fined 5s and £1 16s 6d expenses. Pleading guilty, both stated that the offence was due to their having too much to drink.
[Western Daily Press, Friday 17 April 1942]
Thornbury Castle to let, 24 April 1946:
Representatives of the health, education, mental hospitals, and the mental deficiency committees of the Bristol Corporation paid a visit of inspection to Thornbury Castle yesterday to see the possibilities of the place for their purposes. This ancient manorial home of Sir Algar Howard, Garter King of Arms, is to be let, and may become an institutional annexe of one or other of Bristol's social services. There is no question of purchase, so far as the city is concerned. It is not the first time that the castle has been to let, the previous occasion having been in 1935.
Sir Algar Howard said yesterday that he had no intention of selling the castle, as suggested in a report circulated by a news agency.
[The Times, 25 April 1946]
TWO CONVICTS FOUND IN HAYSTACK. Eight hours after they had escaped from "the prison without bars" at Leyhill (Glos), two convicts were recaptured by Thornbury police as they emerged from a tunnel they had made in a haystack.
The men were Reginald Burt (32) and William Patrick (41). One of them had called at a cottage for a cup of tea and the other asked a farmer for money to get to Newcastle to see his wife.
[Gloucester Citizen, Wednesday 16 April 1947]
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