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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp
Well there's a coincidence. My maternal grandfather was a stationmaster too! And his father before him. My Granddad was born in Railway Cottage at Mildenhall.
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No continuity before my grandfather, Willow.
His father was a bank manager and his elder brother was a solicitor. When my "rebel" granddad joined the railway (as a booking clerk but he had to wear the LMS uniform) he was not allowed to use the front door when he came home from work but had to go round the back to the servants' entrance as they were ashamed of him.
Incidentally the family lived, and my granddad was born in 1867, on King St. in Blackburn. Along with Montague St it was a very posh area then.
