"Dear Kathleen, Many thanks for card it makes me wish to be there. You must come and tell us all about it. I hope you will have fine weather we have it cold night and morning. Your other P. C. arrived safely. Much love Grannie." 

Posted: 10th September 1908

History:

In 1873, the Essex Newsman printed this headline: 'SHOCKING WINDMILL ACCIDENT AT CHADWELL-HEATH' and reported. 'On Thursday afternoon a fatal accident occurred to a groom named Joseph Rutledge, through incautiously driving beneath one of the three mills on the heath. The poor fellow, who was 48 years of age, and had been in the employ of Mr. Moss, miller, Chadwell-heath, about two years, was driving a horse and cart towards the central mill, and went too close to the sails. John Killingback, a miller, called out to him, but at the moment the point of the sail struck him on the forehead, knocking him out of the cart. When picked up he was found to be dead.-An inquest was held on the body at the White Horse Inn, Chadwell-heath, before Mr. C. C. Lewis, coroner, when these facts were deposed to by John Killingback and Mr. H.A. Moss, and the jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death."' Expressing his regret the coroner said: "in this age of progressive science some means were not invented to prevent such a dangerous occurrence". The deceased was the brother of Inspector Rutledge of the Essex Constabulary.

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