Post by Matt James on Apr 16, 2009 16:49:26 GMT
The photo’s below are of my Father as a Telegram Messenger Boy, taken in 1924 at the age of 14 years. He is the boy on the right. My fathers name was George Gregory, born February 18th 1910 in Market Harborough, Leicestershire.
He work in the G.P.O. for 46 years all his working life, as a Telegram Boy, then as a Telegraphist, and later on the counter at Market Harborough Post Office
Dad received the Queens Coronation Medal in 1953 for working 25 years as a postal telegraph officer
In WW2 he was posted to India where he was in signals
Probably his cycling to deliver telegrams gave him a love of cycling and he was a founder member of the Welland Valley Wheelers, eventually becoming a life member. He won many prizes, helped with the training for the Olympics Games. George used to cycle 100 miles from Market Harborough to London to see my Mother Elsie before they were married. It must have been worth the ride!
Telegrams were widely used before the days of electronics most people received telegrams of congratulations on their wedding day, which the best man would read out I know that we received some in 1961
A real sign of the change of the times is a telegram that I found to my Mother in hospital on the day that my younger brother was born in 1952, congratulating his wife on the birth of his son, looking forward to seeing the baby at visiting time in the evening! These days the father has to be at the birth, helping out.
I am researching my family history and found out that my grandfather, George’s father was also a Post Messenger Boy at the age of 13. This is on the 1901 census for Market Harborough John Gregory he was born in 1888
Janet Clements
(George Gregory’s Daughter)
George Gregory (right)
He work in the G.P.O. for 46 years all his working life, as a Telegram Boy, then as a Telegraphist, and later on the counter at Market Harborough Post Office
Dad received the Queens Coronation Medal in 1953 for working 25 years as a postal telegraph officer
In WW2 he was posted to India where he was in signals
Probably his cycling to deliver telegrams gave him a love of cycling and he was a founder member of the Welland Valley Wheelers, eventually becoming a life member. He won many prizes, helped with the training for the Olympics Games. George used to cycle 100 miles from Market Harborough to London to see my Mother Elsie before they were married. It must have been worth the ride!
Telegrams were widely used before the days of electronics most people received telegrams of congratulations on their wedding day, which the best man would read out I know that we received some in 1961
A real sign of the change of the times is a telegram that I found to my Mother in hospital on the day that my younger brother was born in 1952, congratulating his wife on the birth of his son, looking forward to seeing the baby at visiting time in the evening! These days the father has to be at the birth, helping out.
I am researching my family history and found out that my grandfather, George’s father was also a Post Messenger Boy at the age of 13. This is on the 1901 census for Market Harborough John Gregory he was born in 1888
Janet Clements
(George Gregory’s Daughter)
George Gregory (right)