Selside Signal Women

Undated monochrome photograph of first three signalwomen to take charge of Selside signal box.

Unknown

1940

1939 - 1945

Signal box, Selside

Horton History Group

HHG/026/003

Horton station community room

War (61)

WW2 (104)

Reply

The woman in the centre is (Mrs) Edith Sedgwick who was my paternal grandmother. At the time of this photograph, it was wartime and she had joined the railway in response to manpower shortages caused by the war. Her husband, Christopher (Kit) Sedgwick also worked here as a signalman. They lived in Selside with their two sons; Gordon and Kenneth.

By Jennie Sedgwick (14/05/2019)