Recent content by Liz Gurney

Morning! I'm not sure if any of you can help me. I'm trying to find out the background of the Birmingham coroners. I'm writing a piece on what influenced coroner's decisions when ruling suicide as a side quest to my PhD and I'd like to include how their careers etc may have influenced them, but...

I'm sorry if I've not been very interactive recently. I cannot thank you all enough for you support. Please keep it up. My Prof has had me working on the literature review, but I still have an eye on the other (more interesting) bits!!

Absolutely not too late. I'm just starting to plan a chapter on prevention and rescue. This is perfect. What a guy!

Oh wow, thank you so much Steve, this is great. Definitely not to late for my thesis. I would be delighted to have more information on this if you are happy to share? I will DM you with my details. Thank you.

Morning Elaine, I'm so sorry to have just seen your post 6 years after you first posted it! I hope you are well? How did you get on with the book? I have google searched it, but had no joy. :( I am doing a PhD on fatal drownings with a focus on Birmingham canals. I have a section on the working...

That's so sad and beautiful x

Quite afew people walked into the canal in the dark or the fog. Not Birmingham but I found a record of a piermaster in runcorn drowning when trying to light the lamps at the docks. The Weaver Navigation Trustees had decided not to light the lamps after May 14th but said if he wanted them lit he...

Yes, there's several articles where road accidents and drowning are compared. I've also found quite afew articles where one person says one thing and another contradicts them throughout the century. It's made very exciting reading.

That's very much the center of my chapter ☺️

Wow, thank you again for this. Your knowledge is phenomenal! I must pull a list of questions together and maybe we can meet up and I can raid your vast brain! Thank you so much.

Following on from all your amazing responses to my previous post about my PhD research, I'm going to risk a cheeky ask! Do any of you have or know people who have stories about canal workers learning to swim? I've found one story in a book about 2 boys taught to swim by their father tying a rope...

This is Fantastic, thank you so much.

It's a bit of a soap box for me I'm afraid. ALL SHOULD LEARN TO SWIM! My mother is terrified of water as she cant swim and my father wasn't a strong swimmer in any shape of the imagination. They were adamant that we would learn, and I've found a love for it. When doing my proposal for this PhD...

As a Paramedic and open water lifeguard I can't agree with you more ❤️

Oh wow. Thank you. It still may be useful for my research. Thank you.