Post by Matt James on Apr 9, 2009 12:38:38 GMT
Originally posted by Roger Green
Good day,
I was reading your article in the courier which my father gets as he is retired now. All of our family have been in the post office but i was a telegram boy or messenger boy or mopper when i left school.
I started the day after my 15th birthday on 22nd august 1966 and went to south west district office to get measured up for my uniform.
I spent a few weeks there and then went to south kensington where i delivered telegrams around kensington and chelsea in the 60's it was a brilliant time and one i will never forget. I got to meet lots of stars both pop and tv and film star's in that time. After a year or so i was picked to work either in buckingham palace or the houses of parliament so i chose the houses of parliament as i had a friend there called michael lunnis. I also enjoyed that period as i delivered telegrams to the prime minister in 10 downing street and had to make daily visit's to the post master general's office in the city with a special pouch. We had a special uniform with a badge which denoted Gpo - houses of parliament on our uniforms. But one memorable story was that in the house they had a hair dressers and certain times of the day it was for the workers and the rest of the day for the members of parliament. I was having my hair cut at around 12 o'clock noon when the prime minister of england (harold wilson) came in and had to wait for me to be finished. I have some wonderful memories of that period and now i am 56 years old and look back fondly of this time. We had a telegraph operator there called ken vanstone who talked me into going to the telegraph school in the city and after that became a telegraphist which i also enjoyed very much.
Hope you enjoy my little insight into my times as a mopper.
Regards,
John Wilde
bournemouth
Good day,
I was reading your article in the courier which my father gets as he is retired now. All of our family have been in the post office but i was a telegram boy or messenger boy or mopper when i left school.
I started the day after my 15th birthday on 22nd august 1966 and went to south west district office to get measured up for my uniform.
I spent a few weeks there and then went to south kensington where i delivered telegrams around kensington and chelsea in the 60's it was a brilliant time and one i will never forget. I got to meet lots of stars both pop and tv and film star's in that time. After a year or so i was picked to work either in buckingham palace or the houses of parliament so i chose the houses of parliament as i had a friend there called michael lunnis. I also enjoyed that period as i delivered telegrams to the prime minister in 10 downing street and had to make daily visit's to the post master general's office in the city with a special pouch. We had a special uniform with a badge which denoted Gpo - houses of parliament on our uniforms. But one memorable story was that in the house they had a hair dressers and certain times of the day it was for the workers and the rest of the day for the members of parliament. I was having my hair cut at around 12 o'clock noon when the prime minister of england (harold wilson) came in and had to wait for me to be finished. I have some wonderful memories of that period and now i am 56 years old and look back fondly of this time. We had a telegraph operator there called ken vanstone who talked me into going to the telegraph school in the city and after that became a telegraphist which i also enjoyed very much.
Hope you enjoy my little insight into my times as a mopper.
Regards,
John Wilde
bournemouth