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The number you have dialled…
Just when you think you’ve escaped the ‘corporate speak’ of BT and will no longer have to listen to repetitive sentences such as ‘Welcome to BT Meet Me,’ and then you get on the train and the same voice says ‘Welcome to this Greater Anglia train‘…!
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Dressed to Deliver
Upcoming temp exhibition at The Postal Museum looking at the history of workwear from 18 October 2023. https://www.postalmuseum.org/event/dressed-to-deliver/
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Styling the Post Office
Copies of my 2022 book, ‘Styling the Post Office’ (history of the corporate image(s) of the Post Office) are still available direct from the link below. New books in the series are expected mid-2024 onwards. https://www.mygpofamily.com/square/stpo1.html
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Kingsway Tunnels
Ex-wartime telephone exchange site, redundant from BT uses, currently being scoped by investors for a possible London themed attraction. https://thelondontunnels.com
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Promoting Social History
How do you encourage social history, for your favourite topic? Writing about the General Post Office #MyGPOFamily captures the working practices of the era, the organisation, and some of the quirks of working for the GPO. But who wants to read about it? The engineers (predominantly/historically men) want to go down the pub, and are…
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Working for the GPO
I never actually ‘worked for the GPO’ – My dad did, and at that time it was still part of the government. Writing biros (pens) were marked ‘Government Property’ – it wasn’t the most commercial of logos! Everything was labelled, numbered and accounted for. It was a well-ordered organisation, although some folks might say it…
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Writing books about the General Post Office – 1
I’m not sure that folks today even know what the GPO, or General Post Office was, or even if they really wish to find out? People today mostly want a service to work well for them without the worry of how or why it does, what it does! The GPO once operated both the postal…
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Thoughts of the Day
Windows 10 just surprised me by asking if it was convenient to run the ‘Tuesday (?) Update’ now or later? ! I told it to go away, for now. Movie quote of the day: Coke please, regular, not that diet shit.