KEVIN PERRY at the old post office shrewsbury
SOLO GUITAR by kevin perry at the old post office shrewsbury
Royal mail, 1950's - Film 1459
A view of the night Royal Mail train of the Postal Special service.
Mail bags are brought by truck straight on to the platform and sorted into piles for different destinations. The town names are chalked onto the platform itself including Crewe. Guards assist loading the bags into the trucks. A man posted a letter straight to the train via a post box. The train departs. The crew in the sorting coach untie bundles of letters and they are sorted into pigeon holes. The automatic mail bags collection and delivery is seen.
Gloucester / Shrewsbury: Royal Mail post to be axe sorting office
This piece first broadcast on 8 Nov 2012. Televised on UK's regional television BBC1 West Midlands. Programme (Program) -- Midlands Today.
Blues Boy Dan @ The Old Post Office : 23/09/2011 Pt.1
Gpo Sorting Office (1948)
Unissued / unused material.
GPO railway comes of age - General Post Office, Mount Pleasant, Clerkenwell, London.
L/S parcel sorting room. C/U woman sorter at work. Point of view shot on board GPO train coming in to underground GPO station.
Item is cuts from newsreel story 48/98. Date given on old records is 06/12/1948.
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Blues Boy Dan @ The Old Post Office : 23/09/2011 Pt.3
Royal Mail's Worldwide Distribution Centre on the years busiest morning.
Video capturing the Royal Mail's Worldwide Distribution Centre near Heathrow, London, on the years busiest morning - December 3, 2013. The 430,000 sq ft building is the size of six football pitches and sorts every letter and parcel to enter or leave Britain. Already 460,000 packages an hour travel along the centre's ten miles of conveyor belts. A 16ft-high snaking conveyor belt carries levered wooden trays that tip post bags down chutes, each visibly worn by the coarsely woven sacks. Each chute directs mail to a different country or area of the world. Further back along the conveyor-belt system, complicated software determines the route of each piece of mail. Destinations are identified by scanners that use 4.2million lines of code - more than on a Space Shuttle or Stealth Bomber. Opened in 2003 at a cost of GBP367million, the centre operates 24 hours a day. By next year, it will have fully replaced the eight foreign mail sorting offices that previously served Britain. Its 1,500 workers have had aviation security training and can access the sorting floor only by passing a fingerprint scanner.
Visit to Royal Mail's Delivery Office at Burnfield Road
I visited the Royal Mail's Delivery Office at Burnfield Road to see all of the preparations for the Christmas rush
Gnosall History: Railway, Gnosall, Staffs, England
Historical information about the railway from photos, documents, and memories. For more Gnosall History visit: gnosallhistory.co.uk
Places to see in ( Ironbridge - UK )
Places to see in ( Ironbridge - UK )
Ironbridge is a village on the River Severn, at the heart of the Ironbridge Gorge, in Shropshire, England. It lies in the civil parish of The Gorge, in the borough of Telford and Wrekin. Ironbridge developed beside, and takes its name from, the famous Iron Bridge, a 30-metre (100 ft) cast iron bridge that was built across the river in 1779.
The area around Ironbridge is described by those promoting it as a tourist destination as the Birthplace of the Industrial Revolution. This description is based on the idea that Abraham Darby perfected the technique of smelting iron with coke, in Coalbrookdale, allowing much cheaper production of iron. However, the industrial revolution did not begin in one place, but in many.
Darby's iron smelting was but one small part of this generalised revolution and was soon superseded by the great iron-smelting areas. However, the bridge – being the first of its kind fabricated from cast iron, and one of the few which have survived to the present day – remains an important symbol representative of the dawn of the industrial age.
By the 19th century, Ironbridge had had many well-known visitors, including Benjamin Disraeli, but by the mid-20th century the settlements and industries of the gorge were in decline. In 1986, though, Ironbridge became part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site (which covers the wider Ironbridge Gorge area) and has become a major tourist attraction within Shropshire. Most industries in Ironbridge are now tourist-related; however, the Merrythought teddy bear company (established in 1930) is still manufacturing in Ironbridge and has a small museum there too. Amongst other things, the village is still host to a Post Office, pharmacy, various pubs, cafés and many successful small shops.
On Thursday 10 July 2003 The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh made a visit to Shropshire which included a visit to Ironbridge, and a walk over the bridge itself. An annual Coracle Regatta is held in August on the River Severn at Ironbridge, along with many other events throughout the year. This is mainly because the coracle-making family of Rogers lived in Ironbridge for several generations. Just outside Ironbridge in Coalbrookdale is the Ironbridge Institute, a partnership between the University of Birmingham and the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust offering postgraduate and professional development in heritage.
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Widnes Sorting Office 1997
Postmen at Royal Mail Widnes prepare to go out on delivery on Christmas Eve 1997. John Kilgannon is less than enthusiastic about the Christmas season! Joe Birch and Peter Burke are fondly remembered.
Darlo (3) v Shrewsbury (3) Old 3rd Div 1991/2
Football
Shrewsbury Prison tour.
Pic by Lee more to follow.
HM Prison Shrewsbury was a Category B/C men's prison in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. It closed in March 2013.
The former prison site, on Howard Street, adjacent to Shrewsbury railway station, is near the site of the Dana Gaol, a medieval prison. The name The Dana is still often used for the prison, as well as being the name of the road to one side of the prison and the pedestrian route that runs from near the front of the prison into the town centre via a footbridge over the station. The now disused platform 8 at the station, masked from the opposite platform by a high wall, was used for transporting prisoners between 1868 and the First World War.
A bust of prison reformer John Howard is above the main entrance to the prison. The street leading up to the prison from the main road is also named after him.
Current The Dana Prison, Shrewsbury is open as a tourist attraction. Jailhouse Tours runs guided tours, theme events and experiences, educational days, history days, seasonal events, horror tours and School tours. Jailhouse Tours will continue to manage the site until development work begins on the building in 2017.
There has been a prison on the site since 1793, the original building being constructed by Thomas Telford to plans by Shrewsbury architect John Hiram Haycock, the present prison building was constructed in 1877. The prison took female convicts until 1922.
Between 1902 and 1961 the following seven people were executed by hanging within the walls of HMP Shrewsbury for the crime of murder:-
Richard Wigley aged 34 yrs on Tuesday, 18 March 1902 (Mary Ellen Bowen [girlfriend])
William Griffiths aged 57 yrs on Tuesday, 24 July 1923 (Catherine Hughes [mother])
Frank Griffin aged 40 yrs on Thursday, 4 January 1951 (Jane Edge)
Harry Huxley aged 43 yrs on Tuesday, 8 July 1952 (Ada Royce [girlfriend])
Donald Neil Simon aged 32 years on Thursday, 23 October 1952 (Eunice Simon [estranged wife] & Victor Brades [her lover
Desmond Donald Hooper aged 27 yrs on Tuesday, 26 January 1954 (Betty Smith)
George Riley aged 21 yrs on Thursday, 9 February 1961 (Adeline Mary Smith [neighbour])[5]
The names of their victims appear in parentheses. In almost every case the murder victim was female. Executions took place at 8.00 am. All executed prisoners were buried in unmarked graves inside the prison, as was customary. The four executions which took place during the 1950s were all conducted by Albert Pierrepoint and his assistant. The last execution in 1961 was conducted by Harry Allen and his assistant. In February 2014 the Ministry of Justice stated that the remains of ten executed prisoners were exhumed from the prison in 1972, cremated at a local crematorium and the ashes scattered there.
In September 2004, Member of Parliament George Stevenson, called for an enquiry into the amount of suicides which had occurred at Shrewsbury Prison. This came after 3 inmates had hanged themselves at the jail in 2 weeks.
A report in 2005 named Shrewsbury prison as the most overcrowded in England and Wales. In August 2008 a further report stated that the prison had 178 places in use but held 326 inmates - an overcrowding rate of 183%. A report in June 2012 by the Prison Reform Trust awarded Shrewsbury second place in England and Wales for overcrowding, holding 326 prisoners in space designed for 170 men, a figure exceeded only by Kennet in Liverpool at the time.
In 1934, the prison had contained the larger number of 204 cells.
Bust of John Howard above the main entrance.
Before closure, Shrewsbury was a Category B/C prison accepting adult males from the local courts in its catchment area. Accommodation at the prison consisted of double occupancy cells in mostly Victorian buildings. The prison offered education and workshops to inmates. A Listener Scheme was also available to prisoners at risk of suicide or self-harm.
In January 2013, it was announced that the prison was scheduled for closure.
The last inmates were transferred from Shrewsbury to other prisons on 27 February 2013, ahead of its closure in March.
The Grade II listed former prison building was sold by the Ministry of Justice to developers, the Trevor Osborne Property Group, in 2014, and is expected to be converted into homes and offices.
In April 2015, it was revealed proposals included accommodation for around 200 students of the recently created University Centre Shrewsbury.
In January 2016 formal planning proposals convert the former prison to flats and student accommodation were submitted
Royal Mail delivery office in Wolverhampton gears up for a busy Christmas
Find out how Royal Mail staff are working around the clock during the Christmas rush
G.P.O. Underground Railway And Sorting Office
(1948)
Mount Pleasant, Clerkenwell, London.
CU. Bags of mail on conveyor belt at Mount Pleasant sorting office. MS. Elevated shot of the repacking department. CU. Track along table covered with parcels to be repacked. SCU. Two men and a woman repacking badly packed parcels. MS. Men operators sorting bags of mail. MS. Bags of mail being loaded onto the underground train. CU. Operator attending to control panel operating trains. CU. Chart showing Mount Pleasant route. LS. Train coming into station. Shot taken from train.
(Mute Neg.)
Information found in the old record - Cuts 48/98.
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Magic Cabaret in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. Phenomenon
Your host Kevin Duffy tries to explain what phenomenon is all about. Shropshire's exclusive magic cabaret that takes place in an exclusive haunted venue above one of Shropshire oldest taverns The Old Post Office. Milk Street
Remembrance Day 1950 (1950)
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Remembrance Day 1950. London.
L/S Union Jack flying in stiff breeze. L/S and M/S the three flags that fly on the Cenotaph. L/S clergy, choir and Bishop of York walking to the Cenotaph. L/S Ministers including Attlee and Churchill. L/S King George VI and the Duke of Gloucester walking tot he Cenotaph. Big Ben chimes the eleventh hour. Scenes during silence. L/S The Last Post - pan around the Cenotaph during the playing. The King and Duke of Gloucester lay wreaths. L/S of the King standing at the foot of the memorial.
L/S of the Prime Minister Clement Attlee and Winston Churchill. L/S Commanders of the service placing wreaths. Pan along the scenes during the singing of 'O'God Our Help in Ages Past'. L/S whilst Reveille is sounded. L/S the royal party on the balcony of the Home Office. L/S and M/S Old Contemptibles marching past. L/S looking down on dense crowd. L/S Ministers walking to their places. L/S the King and Duke of Gloucester taking their places. L/S members of public walking around Cenotaph.
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Kev's 50th Shrewsbury Yorkshire House pub
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Places to see in ( Much Wenlock - UK )
Places to see in ( Much Wenlock - UK )
Much Wenlock is a small town and parish in Shropshire, England, situated on the A458 road between Shrewsbury and Bridgnorth. Nearby, to the northeast, is the Ironbridge Gorge, and the new town of Telford.
Much Wenlock was historically the chief town of the ancient borough of Wenlock. The Much was added to the name to distinguish it from the nearby Little Wenlock, and signifies that it is the larger of the two settlements. Notable historic attractions in the town are Wenlock Priory and the Guildhall. The name Wenlock probably comes from the Celtic name Wininicas, meaning white area (in reference to the limestone of Wenlock Edge), plus the Old English loca, meaning enclosed place. The town was recorded in the Domesday Book as Wenloch.
The Wenlock Olympian Games established by Dr William Penny Brookes in 1850 are centred in the town. Dr Brookes is credited as a founding father of the modern Olympic Games, and one of the Olympic mascots for London 2012 was named Wenlock after the town.
Richard Fletcher mentions Much Wenlock as one of the possible locations where a Sub-Roman British Christian community may have survived the Anglo-Saxon occupation and eventually integrated with the conquerors and influenced their culture. The town of Wenlock is known to have grown up around an abbey or monastery founded around 680 by Merewalh, a son of King Penda of Mercia, with the small town within its parish boundaries. King Penda installed his daughter Milburga as abbess in 687. Milburga of Wenlock was credited with many miraculous works.
Much Wenlock has become known as the birthplace of Wenlock Olympian Games set up by Dr William Penny Brookes and his Wenlock Olympian Society (WOS) in 1850. In 1861 he was also instrumental in setting up the Shropshire Games and later in 1866, the National Olympian Games. Dr Brookes is credited as a founding father of the Modern Olympic Games. In 1890 it was the turn of the Raven Hotel to be the venue for the annual post Wenlock Olympian Games' dinner, and Baron Pierre de Coubertin was the guest of honour. Copies of some of the WOS's archive images are on display in the hotel, including letters from Coubertin to Brookes. The Wenlock Olympian Games, a nine-day event staged on eight sites across Shropshire, are still held annually during July, and are still organised by WOS. Much Wenlock's secondary school is named after Dr Brookes.
A borough of Wenlock existed until 1966 which, at its height, was – by area – the largest borough in England outside London and encompassed several of the towns that now constitute Telford. The borough had unusual boundaries, covering Much Wenlock itself, but also Little Wenlock, Broseley and Ironbridge, a total area of 71 square miles (180 km2). In 1966 the core Wenlock parts became part of the Bridgnorth Rural District, with other parts also going to Dawley Urban District and to Wellington Rural District.
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Royal Mail Given £3.3bn Price Tag
Royal Mail will be valued at up to £3.3bn when the company's controversial privatisation takes place next month.
The UK government announced that the expected price-range of the postal service's initial price offering was between £2.6bn and £3.3bn or 260p to 330p per share.
The sale, which is being run by investment banks Goldman Sachs and UBS, is expected to make its stock market debut on October 11.
The government plans to sell between 40.1% and 52.2% of Royal Mail's share capital, expecting 70% to be sold to institutional investors and 10% to around 150,000 of the employer's staff for free.
But the government will retain between 37.8% and 49.9% in the 500-year-old organisation.
Members of the public will have to purchase at least £750 worth of shares if they want a stake in the company. Postal workers will on Friday begin voting on whether to take industrial action to oppose the plan.
Written and presented by Alfred Joyner