Thank you to Charani: following your reply I contacted the Coroner's office, whose contact details were found here http://www.n-somerset.gov.uk/Community/Births+deaths+marriages+and+life+even ts/Deaths/coroners.htm and was told that if I write to them, they will search their archives, and if successful they will inform me what charge will be made to supply a transcription. (There was no questioning of who I was or why I needed to know)! At this stage they wouldn't give me any idea of how big the fee might be!! (If it's sizeable I might be satisfied to get the date of the inquest and then do a newspaper search). And thank you to Tony: those links were interesting. Regards, Jenny -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Charani Sent: 03 February 2011 14:27 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ENG-SOM] Air accident at Chew Magna in 1975 Jenny Davis wrote: > Dear Listers, > > On 07 Jun 1975 a light aircraft crashed on the outskirts of Chew Magna > and the two occupants, one a Mr.J Hamilton, died. There would > undoubtedly have been an inquest on these deaths. Can any lister > please point me to where I might find details of the inquest? I dare > say the local press would have reported, but at this stage I've no idea about the date of such inquest. Have you checked with the Coroner's Office? They wouldn't (or shouldn't) give you any details but they might give you the date of the inquest.