Edith Haycraft

Edith Mary Lillian Haycraft to give her full name was headmistress of Towers School, Saltburn until c.1939. She retired to Castleton, but for the last few years of her role as head at Towers School she was ‘guardian’ of her niece Joan Dibdin. Joan’s parents Lionel Dibdin and Cecily (nee Haycraft) were killed in a plane crash in 1933 leaving two orphan children; Peter and Cecily. Cecily spent her school holidays from Bexhill with Edith, in 1939 Cecily left Bexhill to attend the Royal Academy of Music in London.

Image courtesy of a promotional brochure for Towers School at the turn of the 19th century.