Darley Dale Train Station, Derbyshire Dales, England UK

[@stashedawayman1521]

How utterly curious that this should be in my recommendations. A few months ago while researching a distant relative, William Leslie Whitworth Freeman, I discovered that in Census of April 1921, he lived at Darley Dale Station House, Nr. Matlock, Derbyshire. In the 1921 Census, William Freeman (18yrs.) is employed as a booking office clerk, working under his father who is the Station Master at Darley Dale Station, for the Midland Railway Co. In July 1938, William married Ida Ashley 1916-2008, who was a grand daughter of Ester Hughes 1873-1955. Ester was an older sister of my great grandfather Robert Hughes 1875-1942, a coal miner hewer from Alsagers Bank in Staffordshire. Later, Ida and William Leslie Whitworth Freeman lived for some time in Tanganyika (now Tanzania) where William worked on the railways that were constructed as vital infrastructure for the British Governments colonial effort in the failed Groundnut Scheme of 1947-1951.

[@HeavensGremlin]

FFS - it's a RAILWAY STATION - not a 'train station'....!!!!!!!

[@whereisthat101]

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