Tyne and Wear HER(13203): All Saints Cemetery, grave of John James Lightfoot - Details
13203
Newcastle
All Saints Cemetery, grave of John James Lightfoot
Jesmond
NZ26NE
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Grave Marker
Gravestone
POST MEDIEVAL
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Structure
Monument of an angel to John James Lightfoot (1877-1897), apprentice joiner. John James was crushed to death aged 19 during restoration of the 200 year old Green Tree beerhouse in Robson's Entry, Sandgate.The building collapsed killing 4 people and injuring 12. The disaster was sketched by the Chronicle's artist and published on 6 March 1897 the day after the accident. The article describes the scene - 'in the house to the east there was a yawning space where the wall had tumbled in; behind the hole a staircase stood, but seemed, like the sword of Damocles, to have no more than a hair-strength to support it'.
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565840
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Alan Morgan, 2004, Beyond the Grave - Exploring Newcastle's Burial Grounds, page 72