8th March 1891: A derailment on England’s Great Western Railway. The locomotive is photographed after being caught in a blizzard in Cornwall, near Camborne.
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England Forty Years Ago
This photograph was taken in January, 1978, and shows the village of Bray Shop in Cornwall, England blanketed in snow.
Bray Shop is in the east of the county, near the border with Devon.
On this day: the SS Mohegan sank in 1898
The steamer the SS Mohegan sank off the coast of the Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall on the 14th of October, 1898. 106 of the 197 on board died, including Isadora Duncan’s father, stepmother and sister.
The Mohegan wrecked on the Manacles
Because all of the officers on board died in the wreck, no definite answers were ever given for why they had veered so far off course.
Recovered bodies are buried in a mass grave.
In Times Gone By... 
