Going Postal

Postal Museum

A couple of weeks ago I visited a museum that had been recommended by a friend with another
friend, the museum was the Postal Museum (hence the heading) the other friend is now back in Japan!


The  friend (who I visited with - keep up) was a guy  I used to chat with during my last years’ participation in CityLit London Villages Walks course.

He (and his wife) have a place right in town but also a further residence in Suffolk (Woodbridge) where they spend 3 nights each week – the couple do not have children and may move full time to Suffolk when his wife stops working.

The chap is semi-retired and spends some of his time on ‘investments’ his wife works quite hard in executive rewards/remuneration sector, although slightly younger than  I he’s a roughly similar vintage but has a very different background being from Northern Ireland (was brought up a staunch Protestant, now less concerned with this) he is now quite interested in his Scottish roots (genealogy again).

Nice train ride.

The bigger picture 

 Our meetup a visit to the Postal Museum  offered a fascinating view/perspective into British history (and also has a nice little train ride on track that was used for mail distribution to London train termini). Such a reminder of the dramatic changes in labour and employment in our own lifetimes
(and also sad in some ways too).

 The train track was used in Hudson Hawk (Bruce Willis) film as a stand in for an Italian location.

A telegram would be delivered like this 

The Museum is in the area behind ITN's HQ in Grays Inn Road (where I worked for a while) .
Like so much of London much development is now taking place there, new shops and housing

 – seems odd to think (new) ITN building now more than 25 years old and very well established!

ITN is housed in this building