Impression sketch
of Little Girl Lost and the signal box - by Jamie.
In dark of a
Sunday, November night,
One travelling of
a train between
Derby and
Nottingham, had alarm
Raised by
passengers in an accident.
A curly haired girl
aged no more
Than five years,
had been seen
To fall from
carriages of a moving
Train - they
could only fear the worst.
Halting at
Beeston a volunteer,
Private John Hudson,
set out
Onto the tracks -
recovering
From being gassed,
he searched.
Used to grim
reality, he looked
For the body - to
follow Derby
And Nottingham
line until
He reached a signalman’s
box.
Filled with
delight, only to match
The signalman’s
amazement,
The little girl
Laura Wormsley,
Was safe with
just few scratches.
Laura had walked
into the box,
Explaining she
had fallen from
A train onto some
grass, on way
To her Grandmothers
at Beeston.
by Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1915. A
Signalman's Visitor - Child Fallen from a Train. The Daily Telegraph,
[online] 9 November.
P.10. Col.1. Available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11975562/Daily-Telegraph-November-9-1915.html
[Accessed: 9 November 2015].
Mann, J., 2015. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal
communication, 9 November 2015).
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