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==Stolen dynamite==
From the Kidderminster Times and Advertiser for Bewdley & Stourport of Saturday 20 May 1876. "On Sunday afternoon a number of lads, who ought to have been at a Sunday school, visited the tunnel now in course of completion on the loop line to Bewdley, and abstracted from a box they found there, some dynamite cartridges used in blasting the rock. They then adjourned to the Sutton Common cricket field and while experimenting with the cartridges, an explosion took place, thereby a lad named Bradford lost two fingers and a thumb, and probably the sight of one of his eyes. He was conveyed at once to the Infirmary, where the amputation has been performed. The fright the other lads received ought to be taken advantage of by their parents, and their attendance at a Sunday school insisted upon."<ref>[https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001785/18760520/090/0005 Kidderminster Times and Advertiser for Bewdley & Stourport on the British Newsaper Newspaper Archive]</ref>
==Fundamental dishonesty==
The case of ''Creech v Severn Valley Railway & Ors'' was heard at Telford County Court on 25 March 2015. Creech, a security guard, claimed to have suffered a fractured shoulder in 2011 after tripping on a pile of matting left after an ice rink was dismantled at [[Kidderminster]]. District Judge Rodgers found that the rink was fully intact at the alleged time of the accident and the claim was dismissed. The judge made a rare finding of 'fundamental dishonesty' based on the impossibility of Creech having an honest belief in the events forming claim, and awarding the SVR costs of over £11,500 against the claimant.<ref>[http://insurance.dwf.co.uk/news-updates/2015/04/qocs-protection-lost-after-finding-of-fundamental-dishonesty-at-trial/ DWF Solicitors] (Retrieved 16 November 2019)</ref>
==Fire at Bewdley==
At 4am on Wednesday 15th May 1867, a wagon loaded with charcoal caught fire "through carelessness in loading it with a piece of lighted charcoal". The fire spread to the two adjacent wagons and resulted in two wagons being destroyed.<ref>[https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0000150/18670518/106/0008?browse=False Worcester Journal on the British Newspaper Archive]</ref>
Charcoal production was a significant industry in Bewdley and the Wyre Forest at this time.
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