Grave of Thomas Port, Church Hill, Harrow, Greater London
This grave is in the parish church of St Mary. It has the inscription "To the memory of THOMAS PORT Son of John Port of Burton-on-Trent, in the County of Staffordshire, Hat Manufacturer, who near this town had both his legs severed from his body by the railway train, with great fortitude he bore a second amputation by the surgeons and died from loss of blood, August 7 1838 Aged 33 years." Train travel at this time was still a relatively new form of transport and these types of accident would have been new and even more shocking to most people.
Location
Greater London HarrowPeriod
Victorian (1837 - 1901)Themes
