This image which features in several collections of East Cleveland images; is of Hannah Laverick. She is portrayed on her way too or from work at the Skinningrove railway station (just off Kilton Lane); Hannah was the first lady porter on the North Eastern Railway in 1914 and since first featuring the image the Archive has now researched and more information is available. Hannah was born at Low Borrowby (near Roxby) in 1894 but by 1911 was living at 3 North Terrace Loftus with her parents (John and Mary) with her younger sister Mary. In 1916 we can trace her membership of the National Union of Railwaymen at Carlin How, she married Frank K. Storry in 1916 and lived for many years in Redcar; she died in 1990. She must have witnessed many changes in both the railways and the whole of East Cleveland!
Image (courtesy of Jack Robinson) featured in a collection compiled by Derick Pearson, additional information courtesy of Ancestry and Find My Past.
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