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AN AWFUL ACCIDENT

At 3pm on Thursday 31st October 1844, Lowerhouse Mill, Barry Street, Greenacres Moor, Oldham, collapsed with a tremendous crash and killed twenty people. At the time this was the most extensive loss of life in one incident to have occurred in Oldham.

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Ann Buckley

1823 – 31 Oct 1844

Oldham, Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England

Plot info: Plot 597

William Butterworth

1817 – 31 Oct 1844

Oldham, Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England

Plot info: Grave Number 26

No grave photo

Daniel Dunkerley

1803 – 31 Oct 1844

Oldham, Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England

Dr Enoch Dunkerley

1806 – 15 May 1857

Oldham, Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England

No grave photo

Alfred Ferryman

1826 – 12 Aug 1846

Oldham, Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England

Ann Ashton Hulme

1818 – 31 Oct 1844

Oldham, Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England

Plot info: North Wall - the headstone No 13 from the left (originally at Plot 358)

Mary Ann Hussey

1817 – 31 Oct 1844

Oldham, Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England

Plot info: North Wall - the headstone on the far right (originally in Plot 596)

No grave photo

James Kershaw Flowers have been left.

1815 – 31 Oct 1844

Oldham, Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England

Plot info: No headstone remains (was laid to rest in burial plot 2171)

John Kershaw Flowers have been left.

1817 – 31 Oct 1844

Oldham, Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England

Plot info: Headstone: the West Wall - Headstone No 7, from the left (was at burial plot 2169)

No grave photo

William Mannock

1832 – 31 Oct 1844

Oldham, Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England

Plot info: No headstone remains - was buried in Plot 359

No grave photo

Ann Ogden

20 Feb 1820 – 31 Oct 1844

Oldham, Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England

Samuel Radcliffe Flowers have been left.

1780 – 23 Dec 1838

Oldham, Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England

Plot info: North Wall - Headstone No 7, from the left

No grave photo

James Ridgway

23 Nov 1827 – 31 Oct 1844

Oldham, Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England

Plot info: Grave Number F60

No grave photo

Elizabeth Smethurst

1818 – 31 Oct 1844

Oldham, Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England

Plot info: No headstone remains - was buried in Plot 754

George Taylor

1779 – 31 Oct 1844

Oldham, Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England

Plot info: North Wall - the headstone on the far right (originally in Plot 596)

No grave photo

James Tweedale

25 Mar 1831 – 31 Oct 1844

Oldham, Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England

Plot info: Plot B44

No grave photo

Joseph Tweedale

1799 – 31 Oct 1844

Oldham, Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England

Plot info: Plot B44,

No grave photo

Robert Tweedale Flowers have been left.

13 May 1827 – 31 Oct 1844

Oldham, Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England

Plot info: Plot B44

No grave photo

Rev William Fullarton Walker

1802 – 31 Aug 1857

Oldham, Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England

No grave photo

Sarah Whatmough

1811 – 31 Oct 1844

Oldham, Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England

Plot info: No headstone remains - was buried in Plot 360

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