Post by rogergreen on Sept 30, 2009 16:39:06 GMT
I came across your site whilst surfing the net this morning.
I am originally from Edinburgh .
The mentor of our family in my formative years was my Uncle Charlie (Barrie).
He was the oldest son of my Grandmother and someone who made her very proud.
Charlie was the original local lad made good..............His first job when he left school in Corstorphine Edinburgh was as a GPO telegram messenger.
He was also in a protected profession which exempted him from call up for WW2.
He rose to the giddy heights of the manager of a telephone exchange in Edinburgh.
All the family looked to him for advice and he was the expert at composing job application letters and other things important.
It is a pity that the Edinburgh District GPO employees do not have a similar site as I would enjoy reading of the exploits of the boys from that very early era .
A number of years ago I was introduced to a chap here in Aus by a mutual friend. This chap had migrated to Aus from Edinburgh and worked in Telstra our local Telco.
He told me that he had worked for the telephones part of the GPO since he was lad. I enquired if he had come across my Uncle Charlie . Well he told me in no uncertain terms
what he thought of his Manager from many years ago and I can assure you it was not at all complimentary . Uncle Charlie would have turned in his grave at such profanities being used to describe him but I’m sure he would have been proud to know that the same young lad put this learning to good use for the rest of his life both in UK and in Aus.
Regards
David Barrie
I am originally from Edinburgh .
The mentor of our family in my formative years was my Uncle Charlie (Barrie).
He was the oldest son of my Grandmother and someone who made her very proud.
Charlie was the original local lad made good..............His first job when he left school in Corstorphine Edinburgh was as a GPO telegram messenger.
He was also in a protected profession which exempted him from call up for WW2.
He rose to the giddy heights of the manager of a telephone exchange in Edinburgh.
All the family looked to him for advice and he was the expert at composing job application letters and other things important.
It is a pity that the Edinburgh District GPO employees do not have a similar site as I would enjoy reading of the exploits of the boys from that very early era .
A number of years ago I was introduced to a chap here in Aus by a mutual friend. This chap had migrated to Aus from Edinburgh and worked in Telstra our local Telco.
He told me that he had worked for the telephones part of the GPO since he was lad. I enquired if he had come across my Uncle Charlie . Well he told me in no uncertain terms
what he thought of his Manager from many years ago and I can assure you it was not at all complimentary . Uncle Charlie would have turned in his grave at such profanities being used to describe him but I’m sure he would have been proud to know that the same young lad put this learning to good use for the rest of his life both in UK and in Aus.
Regards
David Barrie