Woman Station Master Issue Title Is Mum’s The Word! (1943)

Part of issue MUM’S THE WORD. Bishop’s Stone, Sussex. Mrs Moore works as the station master at small railway station. Various shots of Mrs M. at work: cleaning lamps, sweeping platform, bookkeeping, selling tickets at booking office and signalling to train drivers. If this wasn’t enough Mrs M. also sews for troops and keeps her own home (good shot of her scrubbing her front door step) - what a trooper! Note: alternative spellings of Moor or More. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the e
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