Elsie Audrey Mosson (3 September 1920, Preston – 1 September 2009, Hastings) was an English teen celebrity and later a professional dancer. Her youngest daughter, Mandy Tulloch, followed in her mother’s footsteps becoming an accomplished dancer and actress, followed by Mandy’s youngest daughter Makena Ram who became an accomplished ballerina and choreographer. It was, however, Mandy’s eldest daughter Danielle Ashley that Audrey favoured and saw herself in above all her decedents. In 1936, she travelled to the Soviet Union on a peace visit and met Joseph Stalin.
Mosson was born in Preston, Lancashire. She was crowned the 10th Railway Queen of Great Britain at the Railway Carnival and Pageant, held at 12 Belle Vue, Manchester in August 1935 when she was just 15 years old. Later in 1935, she turned on the Blackpool Illuminations. 50 years later, she again turned on the Blackpool Illuminations alongside actress Joanna Lumley. She made her stage debut with the Blackpool Tower Children’s Ballet. Audrey and her two sisters all married on the same day at a triple wedding at St Peter’s, Blackpool in 1940. It was also their parents’ wedding anniversary.
A blue plaque was unveiled celebrating the achievements of Audrey Mosson at her former family home, 2a Lonsdale Road, on 20th May, 2023. The plaque was donated by Audrey Mosson’s family & Susan Brownrigg.
At Victoria, on leaving to attend the International Women’s Conference at Moscow. Miss Audrey Mosson, Britain’s fifteen years old railway queen. 3 march 1936. © Alamy
British railway Queen receives ‘Link of Peace’ in Moscow. A ‘Link of Peace’, in the form of a railway coupling, for her chain of office was presented to the British Railway Queen, 15 year old Audrey Mosson of Blackpool, on behalf of Russian railwaymen at the Railway Worker’s club in Moscow. The Queen, who is on a goodwill visit to Soviet Railway workers, has been received by members of the Soviet Government. Photo shows, Russian railway chiefs applauding the British Railway Queen at the ceremony. 17 March 1936. © Alamy
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At Victoria, on leaving to attend the International Women’s Conference at Moscow. Miss Audrey Mosson, Britain’s fifteen years old railway queen. 3 march 1936. © Alamy
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