GPO Fordrough Lane Birmingham

[sherry1]

lOOKING FOR PHOTOGRAPHS OF TRAINING SCHOOL INSIDE AND OUT AND ANY STORIES. MY DAD WORKED AT FORDROUGH LANE AND GARETTTS GREEN FOR 36 YEARS. HE RETIRED IN 1987.

 

[BazzM]

I know this isnt the right thread, but I too would be interested in any pictures of Fordrough Lane, as I was born at No. 110 in 1949. Barry.

 

[postie]

Heres some. 2 pictures of staff from 1945
post office building Fordrough Lane

 

[Alf]

Welcome Sherry1 enjoy

 

[BazzM]

Thanks for that Postied, I knew you wouldnt let me down. Obliged, Barry.

 

[sherry1]

Fantastic, thankyou so much.

My mother and Godmother also worked here but this would have been around 1956 onwards.


any further history gladly received.

 

[postie]

If the building looks a bit like a prison, thats because it was originally a reformatory ! Perhaps you relations knew Bernard Charles.

 

[lencops]

I worked at the Post Office Factory , Garrison Lane in 1943. i attended the in house school at Fordrough Lane, it was very large factory and every thing used by the post office was either made or repaired there, the Norton House Approved School for boys was next door and was not on the factory site.

 

[pam1511]

I worked at the Post Office supplies offices in Fordrough lane from1969 until they moved to Adderley Rd Saltley.My boss told me that the offices were once an approved school.

 

[G G Jean]

Postie. Did Bernard Charles live in Holte road Aston?. GGJ.

 

[postie]

No, Jean he lived in Bordesley Green.

 

[G G Jean]

Thanks Postie just a coincedence. Jean.

 

[Out in the sticks Brummy]

These photos are of my Dad at the Garrets Green GPO garage in the early 1950's My Dad Don Commander is the blonde in the middle of of the row kneeling and in the porch