The Times, Thursday, Aug 03, 1933; pg. 7; Issue 46513; col A Over £1,800 Damages For Injured Man Award In Sheriff's Court At Margate. In the Sheriff's Court held at Margate yesterday by Mr W H WHITEHEAD, Under Sheriff for Kent, the jury awarded damages amounting to £1,831 12s to Thomas Sidney BULLOCK, decorator of Hengist Avenue, Margate, against John Patrick Brown of Rotherhithe, for injuries received in an accident at Northdown Road, Margate last August. Fifteen hundred pounds of the damages was placed under the heading of "future loss of wages". The defendant did not appears and was not represented. Interlocutory judgment had been obtained in High Court. It was stated that the plaintiff was riding home on a bicycle at night when the defendants car, alleged to be travelling at 40 miles an hour, struck a gate post and then ran into the plaintiff from behind. He became unconscious, and among other injuries, he received a fracture to the base of his skull which caused permanent loss of sense of smell, partial loss of taste and occasional giddiness, and a permanent internal injury which would necessitate an operation every two of three months for the rest of his life. It was the first Sheriff's Court held at Margate in living memory. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.3.5/303 - Release Date: 4/6/06