The Fox family at Rhyl sands (See text for Railway personnel information)"

Rhyl

1924

This photograph of my family was taken on Rhyl sands the same year as my father died. He was a Goods Clerk on Hawarden Bridge Railway and lived in 70, Brunswick Road, Buckley. He was drowned whilst bathing in the River Dee near Hawarden Bridge so as I was only two years of age I didn't get to know him. For nearly twenty years my father had been employed on the Great Central Railway as a Clerk. He commenced at Buckley Old Station under Station Master J. Phillipson. He next served for a period at the Buckley Junction Station then at Hawarden, and afterwards in the Head Office Liverpool, under Mr. T.H.Underwood Traffic Manager for the Great Central Railway. My father, William Thomas Fox, was next transferred to Hawarden Bridge Station where he was second-in-command as Goods Clerk. He was an old student at Buckley Technical Classes, where he studied shorthand and other subjects, and for a season was teacher for Pitman's Shorthand class. All his life he had been connected with the Buckley Congregational Church. He was very prominent a few years earlier in the Christian Endeavour Movement. He held several Offices at this Church and was, for a period, Sunday School Secretary during the Ministry of the Rev'd Emrys James. He passed successfully several difficult Scripture examinations. In Buckley and amongst his workmates at Hawarden Bridge he was very popular, and his unexpected death caused a shock amongst his relatives and friends. The funeral was a very large one and was headed by thirty railway Officials and employees of the L.N.E.R railway 'G.C. Section'.

Author: Fox, W Neville

The Fox family at Rhyl sands (See text for Railway personnel information)"

Rhyl

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