Post by Matt James on Apr 16, 2009 16:41:41 GMT
I was employed at the Redruth General Post Office in Cornwall, which was the Head Office for the district beginning in 1942 and advancing to the engineering department in 1944.
Cornwall is a very hilly county and the district was aprrox 6 to 7 miles radius covering 12 sub offices on their half days , because of the terrain the bicycles was fitted a stevimy archer 3 speed mechanism what I think was unique in my employment ,was the fact that at the start I was a small lad and short in height and unable to use the G.P.O. regulation cycle, because of it a special dispensation was granted for me to use my own with a condition that I was to be measured every week until able to ride the official cycle properly.
In a matter of weeks I was growing rapidly, much to the delight of the Head Postmaster who monitored the procedure
There were good and sad times in delivering messages and in those days in war, it was my misfortune to deliver 5 such “priorities” of deceased servicemen, one being that of my brother, a pilot RAF VR age 21 years in 1943.
I hope you will find this record of interest and add to the diary of those methods of communication in those early years now superceded by high technology of the present
Hedley Curnow
Cornwall is a very hilly county and the district was aprrox 6 to 7 miles radius covering 12 sub offices on their half days , because of the terrain the bicycles was fitted a stevimy archer 3 speed mechanism what I think was unique in my employment ,was the fact that at the start I was a small lad and short in height and unable to use the G.P.O. regulation cycle, because of it a special dispensation was granted for me to use my own with a condition that I was to be measured every week until able to ride the official cycle properly.
In a matter of weeks I was growing rapidly, much to the delight of the Head Postmaster who monitored the procedure
There were good and sad times in delivering messages and in those days in war, it was my misfortune to deliver 5 such “priorities” of deceased servicemen, one being that of my brother, a pilot RAF VR age 21 years in 1943.
I hope you will find this record of interest and add to the diary of those methods of communication in those early years now superceded by high technology of the present
Hedley Curnow