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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2013 6:08:11 GMT
Royal Mail workers mass outside the sorting offices during a police search - 1979
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2013 6:10:38 GMT
The Royal Mail Sorting Office
Before the sale and transformation to The Mailbox
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2013 6:12:28 GMT
The disused tunnel connection the the old
Royal Mail Sorting Offices and New Street Station
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2013 6:14:42 GMT
1953
Royal Mail delivery lads from the special
hand-franked section Birmingham
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Post by joebedworth on Dec 27, 2013 14:53:28 GMT
Re ROYAL MAIL BIRMINGHAM #3
Oh what memories this pic.holds for me. even where it was taken (laoding deck at the bottom of Pinfold Street ) Most of our uniform in those days wes ex W.D.,we even had ex RAF flying jackets, boots, and glass googles. ( We were even known in the GPO as the telegram flying squad ) Happy Days
Joe.
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Post by planetmalc on Dec 30, 2013 16:17:34 GMT
The disused tunnel connection the the old
Royal Mail Sorting Offices and New Street Station
Ref post #2: it's the first I've heard of this - have you been inside it, Joe?
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Post by joebedworth on Dec 31, 2013 15:39:37 GMT
Hi Ray, Re .underground GPO tunnels.
I did indeed use these tunnels whilst working at central P.O. After the mail had been sorted the mailbags were loaded into caged trollies.These then went down in a large service lift, (about two floors below street level )into the tunnel.The cages were then linked together to form a train of about ten, (depending on how much mail there was. ).This train was then pulled by a small electric vehicle along the tunnel from Pinfold Street to New Street station. There were several exits leading up to the various platforms via a long slope. I am sure anyone using New Street station in the 50s- 60s would have been aware of these six foot wide slopes on the platforms. The tunnel itself was quite wide in parts and narrow in others,the narrow parts were controled by a traffic light system.
Hope this information is of some use.
Joe.
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Post by planetmalc on Jan 2, 2014 16:56:18 GMT
I remember those slopes on the platforms, Joe, but always thought they were just there to allow luggage trolleys to move from platform to platform - thanks for the info.
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