Post by pat on Mar 16, 2016 16:08:48 GMT
Hi again. To continue from where I left off .
Well three of us were walked to our new office at spring st, the others went elsewhere and never seen again. However the office was a large one up to fifteen boys, we had shifts from 8to4 9to5 and 1130 to 730pm this was a daily rotation including Saturdays. Sunday was on overtime 8to12 12to4 . This was probably the same at all offices. The following week we went to the postal school at King's Cross to learn all the paperwork and the do's and don'ts. Eventually we got our uniforms and settled in. If you was on late shift you had to line up in the bike shed for inspection, to make sure you're trousers were pressed, cap badge polished because you're number was on it , if you had coloured socks on then you was sent home to change.
There were two PSMs in charge of us , George Budd and Joe Pead , we called them governor and they were firm but fair and a laugh at times. The day college I attended was at Hackney for the first six months it was miles away from west London, the school was standing on its own with bomb sites all around, and a cafe up the road that took our luncheon vouchers where you queued for a seat to have a meal. After a time I went to Hammersmith some lads went to City day, ( somewhere in the city ). The college was only around the corner from the post office savings bank so the girls also attended.
Underneath the bank was the youth club for all messengers and bank girls, it was the girls who brought along the record player and records, and the boys
played snooker or darts, they were good nights lots of laughs and music.
One year the club was invited by the youth club in Edinburgh as guests for a long weekend ( Easter? ), can anyone remember that, anyway I was lucky to be one of six to go from our area. We left postal H / Q ( K.E.B) in a coach loaded with Moppers from around London. It took all day to get there and it was dark when we arrived, we bedded down in their sports / social hall. Over the next few days we went horse riding and toured the castle, and sampled a Haggis in Edinburgh sorting office canteen that's all I can remember.
My battery is going so I have to go sorry to waffle on but I will think on good luck for now . Pat.
Well three of us were walked to our new office at spring st, the others went elsewhere and never seen again. However the office was a large one up to fifteen boys, we had shifts from 8to4 9to5 and 1130 to 730pm this was a daily rotation including Saturdays. Sunday was on overtime 8to12 12to4 . This was probably the same at all offices. The following week we went to the postal school at King's Cross to learn all the paperwork and the do's and don'ts. Eventually we got our uniforms and settled in. If you was on late shift you had to line up in the bike shed for inspection, to make sure you're trousers were pressed, cap badge polished because you're number was on it , if you had coloured socks on then you was sent home to change.
There were two PSMs in charge of us , George Budd and Joe Pead , we called them governor and they were firm but fair and a laugh at times. The day college I attended was at Hackney for the first six months it was miles away from west London, the school was standing on its own with bomb sites all around, and a cafe up the road that took our luncheon vouchers where you queued for a seat to have a meal. After a time I went to Hammersmith some lads went to City day, ( somewhere in the city ). The college was only around the corner from the post office savings bank so the girls also attended.
Underneath the bank was the youth club for all messengers and bank girls, it was the girls who brought along the record player and records, and the boys
played snooker or darts, they were good nights lots of laughs and music.
One year the club was invited by the youth club in Edinburgh as guests for a long weekend ( Easter? ), can anyone remember that, anyway I was lucky to be one of six to go from our area. We left postal H / Q ( K.E.B) in a coach loaded with Moppers from around London. It took all day to get there and it was dark when we arrived, we bedded down in their sports / social hall. Over the next few days we went horse riding and toured the castle, and sampled a Haggis in Edinburgh sorting office canteen that's all I can remember.
My battery is going so I have to go sorry to waffle on but I will think on good luck for now . Pat.