Overturned Traction Engine Ruardean Hill (Photo Gallery)

by cmfenton , Ferndown, Dorset, Friday, March 26, 2010, 10:09 (5152 days ago) @ admin

I didn't recall this from Maurice's book (Roy Nelson was my uncle) I must look it up, but there's also the following about the same incident related by Mrs Wedley the local postwoman:

She tells of the traction engine mishap in the Hollow in 1918 when her mother cared for the driver, Mr Harry Read, great-grandfather of the present Mr George Read, of Mitcheldean, and of how Mr Read miraculously escaped without being scalded and the funnel saving the engine from turning over.

From the book 'Highest Point of Dean' by Maurice V. Bent