Burnley Manchester Road Station Staff including Richard Dick Rawson

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iBase ID

273230

Reference identifier

EBU20170424001

Title

Burnley Manchester Road Station Staff including Richard Dick Rawson

Place

Burnley

Personal names

Richard Rawson, Dick Rawson, Nellie Parker

General notes

Information written on the reverse of the photo states "The youngest on the station platform is Richard (Dick) Rawson killed in WW1. He married Nelly Parker an actress at the Palace Theatre Burnley, She never re-married. " Richard was born in 1889 one of 9 children, whose family ran a confectioner's /eating house at 21 Plumbe Street Burnley, their home. If he is the young boy in the photo with a tray, this would date the photo to around 1900 perhaps. He married Nelly/Nellie on 9.11.1915, he landed in France 9.11.16, and fought with the Household Cavalry (foot soldiers) and went missing in action 13.5.1917 at the Third Battle of the Scarpe, aged 26.

Manchester Road station was re-opened in 1886 by Lancashire & Yorkshire Railways replacing Thorneybank Station opened 1849 by the Manchester & Leeds Railway It closed to passenger traffic in 1961 and re-opened for trains from Blackpool/Preston to Leeds/York in 1986. After the re-instatement of the Todmorden Curve, in May 2015 a direct service was launched from Manchester Victoria to Blackburn and a new station was built.

Medium

Photographic print

Colour

Sepia

Original image size

21.5 x 15.5

Year of image

1900 ca.

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Locator

N34

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