An alarming accident by which a little eight year old girl named Annie Lord had a narrow escape from being killed occurred Mount Pleasant Sunday school, Bacup on Monday afternoon. The little girl is the daughter of Howarth Lord, a weaver of Greave, and is a scholar of the 13th class, attended the Sunday school in Sunday afternoon. A number of the junior classed including the one in which Annie Lord is a scholar are held in what is known as the band room, a small room adjoining the large schoolroom, and out of which a staircase leads to the gallery at the back of the room last mentioned. In order that the whole of he scholars may join in the devotional exercise at the opening and closing of lessons, it is customary for the classes in the band room to proceed to the gallery in the big schoolroom by means of the staircase mentioned. The stars consist of about sixteen steps with a square landing opposite the doorway at the to, and protected on the outer side by wooden rails and a handrail, the whole being about three feet to three feet six inches high.

On Sunday afternoon the scholars had been assembled in the  gallery as usual the school had been closed by singing  a hymn and prayers  and the scholars were returning down the staircase and to the band room when the little girl by some means overbalanced herself over the top of the rail and fell with a heavy thud to the floor below. Immediately below the small landing was three forms and chairs which had been used for the formation of the class and one of these came into violent contact with the girls head as she fell. She was picked up by one of the teachers who was in the room  whence the screams of the  scholars brought a number of others to the scene. Among whom were Miss Christie Shepherd Miss Martha A Lord, and Miss Stapleton, all members of the Bacup Nursing Division. These took charge of the unfortunate girl and found her to be bleeding profusely from a nasty wound in the forehead caused by contact with the form or the chair They applied bandages and a messenger was sent, at once for Dr Brown,  who however was away from home, so the child was carried by a man named James Ives to the home of Dr Rigby, but he was also out. Whilst in the surgery  a message was received that Dr Browns locum tenens had arrived and he ultimately attended to the little ones injuries. The incident caused quite a sensation amongst the scholars who had not left the school when it happened. The distance which the girl fell would not be less than 15 or 16 feet and has the protecting rail is the height of the girls shoulders it is a matter of some surprise unless she was attempting to get over the rail to slide down it and fell over. We are glad to learn that the girl is making  good progress.