GPO worker - (forging relationships) : Pat Hastings

Transcript

Joining the Post Office in 1946 meant that you were competing with ex-servicemen. The Post Office gave an undertaking to the government that they would employ a large number of ex-servicemen immediately they came out of the army and many of these people got accelerated promotion into technical grades, skilled workmen grades, and so for apprentices it was really quite hard going. I then did a period in the army in 1949 and when I returned from the army I went to work at Woolwich telephone exchange as then a married man because I married a lady I met at New Cross telephone exchange in my early days and indeed am still married to her. So you see telecommunications has some value in other ways rather than just speaking to one another.