She was invited to travel to the USSR to meet Russian railway workers in March 1936
A blue plaque has been unveiled in memory of a Blackpool woman who met Joseph Stalin when she was a teenager.
Audrey was also only the second VIP, and the first female, to switch on Blackpool Illuminations in August 1935. Now her achievements have been formally recognised after Coun Kath Benson undertook one of her final engagements as Blackpool Mayor to unveil a plaque in Audrey’s memory.With the help of Blackpool Civic Trust, it has been installed on a wall at The Mayfair Hotel on Lonsdale Road where Audrey lived with her family.
Joan Humble, chairman of Blackpool Civic Trust, said: “I hadn’t previously heard of Audrey Mosson and the more I read, the more I found out she was a truly remarkable girl. She was only 15 and she was representing the railway workers of Great Britain.
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