LADIES WAITING ROOM ATTENDANT
Rose was born to Caroline and Henry Harris, a shepherd near Wanborough, Guildford in 1872, one of at least eight children.
She married Richard Cresswell (or Creswell) a railway porter in 1901 and they were living in Dorking. They had a daughter Lilian and a son Richard Henry. By 1911 they’d moved to Mount Pleasant Road, Hastings and her husband was now a railway police constable. He died in 1918, aged 45, the cause is unknown.
Now a widow Rose took a job as a ladies’ waiting room attendant at Hastings Station. A job she is recorded as doing in records from 1921 and 1939, and where she and now 28 year old son Richard (a wholesale grocer’s travelling salesman) had moved to Milward Road. Rose died in Hastings in 1955 – some 37 years after her late husband. She was 82.
Research and design by:
Danny Coope / Street of Blue Plaques
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