Article: Echo memories - The noteworthy life and times of a railwayman

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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