G.R.O delivery times

[Girl Guide]

That's great to hear Boo.     Sounds like the GRO are catching up with the orders.  Perhaps more staff are now working at their offices so they can get through them faster.

[Christine53]

I've yet to hear about the incorrect certificate which I received. I sent the email form last Thursday and , apart from the automated response , I've heard nothing. I feel a bit miffed as it was a complete error on their part .

[ugo]

Wow it a bit  hit and miss

[Tickettyboo]

I've yet to hear about the incorrect certificate which I received. I sent the email form last Thursday and , apart from the automated response , I've heard nothing. I feel a bit miffed as it was a complete error on their part .

Even back in 'precedented times' (remember those?) the GRO reponse time to queries/ complaints was long. The usual standard within official depts was 10 working days - lord alone knows what that has stretched to at the mo.
(I have had a query lodged with DWP for 3 months now, despite being told when I lodged it that I would get a reply within 10 working days)
Boo

[Darnity]

Just to add to the recent impressive delivery times I ordered two pdf deaths at half past eight on the evening of the 23rd.

Expected delivery when I places the order was Wednesday 30th.

They were ready for me to download at twenty past three on the afternoon of the 25th :-)

What is annoying - but my fault as I should have thought this through before deciding to get the cert - is that one of them shows his place of death, which I already knew as documents relating to the 1890 inquest have survived and I've had a copy for many years, but doesn't tell me where he was living when he died.

He died in Birmingham General Hospital after an accident on New Street Station.

[chiddicks]

PDF's in roughly 24 hours is an amazing level of service.

[Tickettyboo]

Just to add to the recent impressive delivery times I ordered two pdf deaths at half past eight on the evening of the 23rd.

Expected delivery when I places the order was Wednesday 30th.

They were ready for me to download at twenty past three on the afternoon of the 25th :-)

What is annoying - but my fault as I should have thought this through before deciding to get the cert - is that one of them shows his place of death, which I already knew as documents relating to the 1890 inquest have survived and I've had a copy for many years, but doesn't tell me where he was living when he died.

He died in Birmingham General Hospital after an accident on New Street Station.

IF his name was George Simpson and he died in Sept 1890 at New St, there are reports of the inquest in the Birmingham papers - but, as you probably already know, they don't mention where he lived.
However there is also a small report of the accident in the Leamington Spa Courier on 13 Sep 1890 which describes him as a Leamington Man, though he had been 'recently removed to Birmingham' to work on the Stour Valley line, he was aged 47 and a widower. Again doesn't mention an address for him, but that may help to put him into context (if I have read the right inquest report)

Boo

[Darnity]

Thanks no, it's Benjamin Bissell, death 21st January 1890.

He was a railway carriage cleaner and like I expect many workers took a shortcut when sent to clean carriages on a distant platform. He was "hard of hearing" according to the inquest and was crossing a track when a train he obviously hadn't heard coming came into view. He appears to have tried to squash himself up in the space between the train and the platform edge but his ribs were crushed and he died of his injuries in hospital

[Tickettyboo]

Thanks no, it's Benjamin Bissell, death 21st January 1890.

This looks like the right one ?

25 Jan 1890 Birmingham Daily Post, page 7

[within the reports of inquests, previous one ruled as accidental death]

 
A similar verdict was recorded in the enquiry into the death of Benjamin Bissell (40), carriage cleaner, of 10 Belvedere Place, Great Francis Street.
The deceased who was in the employment of the London and North Western Railway Company, was knocked down by an engine at New Street Station while crossing one of the lines on Monday last. He was slightly deaf, and apparently did not see or hear the engine approaching, He was fatally injured, and died at the General Hospital, where he had been removed to.


Boo