Hello Steve Frost I have visited the NER war memorial in York opposite the old NER headquarters and as you say it is magnificent and very thought provoking, you can see the original transcripts to the war dead in the old NER building itself. Unfortunatley the building was closed when I visited, but I do have a visit on my list!.
Women must have worked pretty hard when their husband”s etc were away fighting in both World Wars. My Great Grandmother worked in the munitions factory in WW1 and my Grandmother worked in the foundry in Stockton as a moulder”s helper. She was only 5ft and crippled with arthritis, but she managed. Perhaps we “don”t know we”re born” after all.
The uniform certainly looks like WW1 as the same happened again in WW2. Mam was a Signaller on the LNER (Norton Junction East) but her uniform had a shorter skirt and the jacket hem was rounded at the front, not cut square. Dad was a signaller too, but in the Royal Navy. Later an uncle of mine became a signaller (Norton Junction South) when he was demobbed from the Navy and Mam used to tease him about doing “women”s work”… 😉
It is most likely that this is a Great War photo, as before then women did not have the opportunity for such work. However, the War took many railway employees to the slaughter at the front and women did their bit by taking such jobs. The corollary to this photo is the NER”s magnificent war memorial just inside the walls of the city of York.
A woman porter at Stockton Station.
This looks very much like Mary Jane Clinton.
Hello Steve Frost I have visited the NER war memorial in York opposite the old NER headquarters and as you say it is magnificent and very thought provoking, you can see the original transcripts to the war dead in the old NER building itself. Unfortunatley the building was closed when I visited, but I do have a visit on my list!.
Women must have worked pretty hard when their husband”s etc were away fighting in both World Wars. My Great Grandmother worked in the munitions factory in WW1 and my Grandmother worked in the foundry in Stockton as a moulder”s helper. She was only 5ft and crippled with arthritis, but she managed. Perhaps we “don”t know we”re born” after all.
The uniform certainly looks like WW1 as the same happened again in WW2. Mam was a Signaller on the LNER (Norton Junction East) but her uniform had a shorter skirt and the jacket hem was rounded at the front, not cut square. Dad was a signaller too, but in the Royal Navy. Later an uncle of mine became a signaller (Norton Junction South) when he was demobbed from the Navy and Mam used to tease him about doing “women”s work”… 😉
It is most likely that this is a Great War photo, as before then women did not have the opportunity for such work. However, the War took many railway employees to the slaughter at the front and women did their bit by taking such jobs. The corollary to this photo is the NER”s magnificent war memorial just inside the walls of the city of York.