The Lady with no hands - Page 4

katex · 21-06-2011, 19:14

We have discussed this gentleman before, but don't think we came to any conclusion :

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...s-42315-3.html

#52 onwards.

Wynonie Harris · 21-06-2011, 20:03

My mum told me he'd been in some sort of industrial accident at Bulloughs, I think.

jaysay · 22-06-2011, 09:52

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Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris

My mum told me he'd been in some sort of industrial accident at Bulloughs, I think.

Ya know Wyn I think my mum said he had some form of Cancer, but we're very unlikely to find out the truth now

magpie · 30-07-2011, 18:14

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Originally Posted by maxthecollie

Simon Entwistle the ghost story teller tells a tale of this when he does his talks on murders and mysteries

yes he does... however I think he shows people round the wrong house... because the house where this happend was knocked down many years ago.... and he talks about standing in the yard where it took place and so on.... I did email him to tell him his facts were wrong ( he never got back)

Alan Varrechia · 30-07-2011, 19:21

Never let the facts get in the way of a good story. Journalists do it all the time.

Retlaw · 30-07-2011, 20:33

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Originally Posted by magpie

yes he does... however I think he shows people round the wrong house... because the house where this happend was knocked down many years ago.... and he talks about standing in the yard where it took place and so on.... I did email him to tell him his facts were wrong ( he never got back)

He is pig ignorant, and a liar, I've challenged him on a couple of his tales about Accrington's past, like you I got no reply. There are still some that believe in Santa, and that the moon is made of Green Cheese.
Retlaw.

Jim Procter · 31-07-2011, 10:56

With regard to the man with no face--I wonder if he was the same man that I knew.Iserved my time at Howard and Bulloughs just after the war and as part of my training I spent some time in the Turning Shop learning about Lathes etc. The man with no face worked there and I worked with him for a while.He used to chew Tobacco,I remember he cut me a plug off and told me to chew it as it would keep the smell of the coolant off. Like the young mug I was at the time I did as I was told. It was the most horrible thing that I ever tasted in my life.But I will always remember tha man with no face. Has as been said before he had no nose or lips and his eyes were just sockets, How he came by his injuries I never knew and I dont remember his name.

Bee · 10-09-2011, 12:30

That is a very scary, dirty story.

Gordon Booth · 10-09-2011, 13:02

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Originally Posted by Bee

That is a very scary, dirty story.

Please choose your words more carefully, Bee.
The most likely explanation is that his face was burned off in an aircraft or a tank during WW2,fighting for us. It happened to a lot of men, they didn't have any face protection from fire.
If you're refering to the lady, that's also a tragic story, not a dirty one.

Bee · 10-09-2011, 14:44

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Originally Posted by Gordon Booth

Please choose your words more carefully, Bee.
The most likely explanation is that his face was burned off in an aircraft or a tank during WW2,fighting for us. It happened to a lot of men, they didn't have any face protection from fire.
If you're refering to the lady, that's also a tragic story, not a dirty one.

Well Gordon Booth it's dirty by blood and razors (which was used to cut her hands off) and being scary by her hands being cut off.

Bob Dobson · 10-09-2011, 17:47

I too think that 'dirty' is an inappropriate word for this story. The word 'sad' comes to mind.

Bee · 16-09-2011, 21:29

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Originally Posted by magpie

does anyone remember or have any information on:

Agnes Rhodes Wildman... she lived in the Barnfield area of Accrington:

This is the lady that had her hands cut off by her step-father ( John Whalley) 1923 at the time they lived on Victoria Street Accrington:

Her mother was called Maud:

thank you:

That stupid moronic man. He should've been put on the electric chair for doing that

. Also, the child should've been taken off him, he's not fit for being a stepdad

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Bee · 16-09-2011, 21:32

Such a sad, scary story.

groove · 22-10-2011, 12:29

Groove thinks that if such an event happened today with the media coverage etc, the perpetrator would have been as notorious as Ian Huntley or Brady etc.

Eric · 26-10-2011, 19:07

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Originally Posted by Tealeaf

Apart from the Lady with No Hands, do any of you lot remember the man with no face? Going back to the 1960's I would see him occaisionally walking along Blackburn Rd, dressed in a brownish raincoat and a trilby hat; he had no nose, no eyelids or eyebrows or lips. At some time, he'd been horribly burnt but because of his injuries it was impossible to put an age on him, so whether he was a vet. of WW1, 2 or a had suffered industrial injuries, I don't know.

I remember this guy ... used to see him where the buses left for Clayton ... even earlier than the 60s 'cause I remember my mom giving me a good talking to for staring at him ...