In memory of Sean McGill
Lep Recorn has investigated a tragic piece of local history. He writes:
In the Brockley sorting office public area where packets and parcels are collected, there is a plaque “In memory of Sean McGill died 30. 10. 92. Aged 22.”
The 30th October 1992 was a Friday. Sean McGill was a postman and gave a colleague a lift home to Nunhead. He was driving a post office Bedford van with sliding doors, and was not wearing a seat belt. As he returned from Nunhead driving over the railway bridge on St Asaph’s Road he lost control of the van on the bend. He was thrown from the van and crushed to death by it as it rolled over him.
11 comments:
Ah, I have always read that plaque in the sorting office when I'm waiting for a parcel, and always wondered about it. So young! Thanks for investigating.
Sean's parents still live locally, I understand. Very sad.
God bless him.
Yes they do. I rented my first place in Brockley from them. A lovely family.
I remember Sean very well, he was always happy and friendly, everybody liked him. It was a terrible incident, such a waste.
Thank you for letting us know, I also always wondered about the plaque, how awful.
I wondered what that plaque was all about... Poor chap. I did a fully supported bike ride from London to Paris in the summer, we had support mechanics following the peleton in vans, they were to be in the back of the van fixing bikes with the sliding doors open and at 1 point our mechanic fell out of the van as we rounded a corner and slammed up against a wall... Amazingly he was only a bit bruised...
Was a sad day for all us postmen he is still remembered at this time of year especially.
His family does still live locally - last Sunday's 11.30am mass at St Mary Magdelenes Church was deidcated to his memory.
His family were in attendance.
Thanks for posting this - I too had seen the plaque. When I asked in the sorting office, the staff member I spoke to didn't know anything other than what was said on the plaque, and I couldn't find anything on the web.
I always wondered about this as well. I have a cousin with the same name so each time I see I think of him.
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