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Article: Echo memories - The noteworthy life and times of a railwayman
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- The Northern Echo
- Article date:
- September 16, 2009
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Echo Memories delves into a pocketbook kept by John Alfred Routh,
a railwayman and Anglican, and finds disaster and tragedy, and a
royal ailment that introduced a new word to the medical dictionary
THE first photo in the Routh family album shows, in Box Brownie
black-and-white, an elderly man sitting with his wife and two of
their grandchildren on a slanting bench.
Either the bench is on a very steep hill or the cameraman was a
novice.
But zoom in on the man on the bench. He's John Alfred Routh, a
Darlington railwayman and a devout Anglican, born in 1847. He's
wearing a trilby and a moustache.
He's a big man with a friendly face.
He seems quite content with life and pretty confident, judging ...
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