Quintinshill Train Disaster 100 Years Memorial Display 1 gtritchie5

Princess Ann came to Gretna for the Quitinshill Train Disaster 100 Years Memorial Commemoration & this Display was arranged by David Wilson. I ask you to watch this video from start to finish,as you might find things, you have never seen in your life before?

[exileinderby]

Hi George, great video as usual and some very interesting exhibits, as you say, there's some I've never seen before. Just a couple of points, the William Bentall machine at 7.02 looked to me like a hammer mill that made the grain into meal while the one at 9.06 was a roller mill that flattened the grain in to the silver sixpences that he mentioned earlier. The last mower looked very like one I sat on as a boy though that had been converted from horse drawn and the cutter bar was on the left. It was hard work for an eleven year old working the levers that lifted it and put it back into work!

[gtritchie]

Princess Anne came to the Qinstinshill 100 years Memorial Commemoration. 226 people lost their lives in this Train Disaster on the 22nd May 1915:) David Wilson shows me around the display:)

[boywithadolphin]

A friend of mine used to collect tractors but has now given it up. He is an Ex tractor fan.

[KuvDabGib]

Fucking hell i thought this will be about train accident, not about bloody tractor!

[cogidubnus]

It isn't, alas, the worlds worst train disaster any more...check out the Delhi disaster..but yes it was clearly tragic...