Kenilworth: “Fatal Transport Accidents”

“Let my quick fate a warning be…” Fatal Transport Accidents in the West Midlands, 1820s-1920s

Speaker: Quintin Watt

This illustrated presentation deals with various accidents that involved the region’s stage-coaches, canals, railways and trams. How and why did these shocking events occur, and who was to blame? What ‘Health & Safety’ lessons were learnt from these many tragic mishaps?

Quintin taught History at a high school in Bromsgrove for 39 years. He has completed two Masters Degrees, in West Midlands Regional History and Britain and the First World War. He has written articles for local history magazines and edited two books –  the Bromsgrove Guild – An Illustrated History and Wolverhampton’s Great War, 1914-1921. Quintin served as secretary and chairman of the Bromsgrove Society’s Local History group and the Wolverhampton Society as well as the Black Country Society.