Two died when the boiler on a steam engine exploded.

 
St John the Baptist, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire
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This church was adjacent to the large town cemetery but although it covered a large area there were not many graves with readable headstones.


 
 
Thomas Scaife and Joseph Rutherford both worked for the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway and were killed when the boiler on a steam locomotive exploded at
Bromsgrove on 10th November 1840. Scaife was killed at once but Rutherford
died the next day.
 
 
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