Whilst having lunch in The Fleece we met Mike and Pat Fowler who were visiting Burgh from Bedfordshire. We were talking about family tree history and websites and when I mentioned our Burgh website Mike and Pat said that they own a seat which was once on Burgh Railway Station and they have kindly sent a photograph of it to add to our “History of Burgh”.

From Mike Fowler:

I acquired the seat in 1970 not long after the station and line closed. Since then it has been restored and for the last 12 years has been inside our conservatory. It would have been on the platform from a few years after the opening of the station in 1848 though the cast iron name plate would have been fixed in after 1923 when the LNER took over from the GNR. Initially I had a name plate only and later sold that when I had the opportunity to buy the seat. I think there would have been three or four seats though they may have been in a rotting state as I had to replace some of the timber in my example.

Burgh le Marsh Railway Station