(Albert) Sidney King
1902 – 1978
North Sheen Signalman
Liaising with stations and crossings he controlled train movements by pulling levers to operate signals and points.
Sidney King was born in Staines in 1902, to Florence née Switzer and Albert, a railway signalman and later a guard.
In the 1911, 1921 and 1939 censuses the family were living on Hounslow Gardens, Whitton Road, Hounslow.
In 1921 Sidney was working as railway messenger, at 18, with his brother Walter, just 14, for London South Western Railway.
Lillian Powell became his wife in 1930 and by 1939 Sidney was a signalman and they were living on The Drive, Feltham with
their daughter Audrey. During World War II Sidney operated the signal box at North Sheen. He died in Feltham in 1978.
