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Colin Charlesworth 1928-2009
This memorial site is dedicated to the life and work of the late Colin Charlesworth, retired District Head Postmaster, Bradford, 1980 - 89.
Please visit the Colin Charlesworth Tribute Fund for Myeloma by clicking on the link:
My Pages
- Prince Charles Opens 'New' Bradford MLO
- Comment Board
- Guestbook
- The Royal Society of St. George
- The Royal Mail Group Fellowship
- Bradford - Britain's 'best mail centre'
- Lest We Forget
- Tom Jackson opens Bradford's Postshop
- Newspaper Cuttings
- - Financial Special on The PO
- Post Office Fellowship of Remembrance
- Wesley Chapel, Harrogate.
- Bradford Post Office War Memorial
- Modern Postcodes are 50 Years Old
- In Memoriam - February 11th
Please contact
dave.charlesworth@
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if you have any more details or photos to contribute.
dave.charlesworth@
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Colin, having been born in Crookes, Sheffield, in December 1928, was proud to be a Yorkshireman - living and working his entire life within the County (only the Second World War saw him serving outside of his beloved Yorkshire at Redford!).
He joined the General Post Office (GPO) as a Boy Messenger in Sheffield on his fourteenth birthday. At the outbreak of WW2 he was one of the last conscripts to the York and Lancaster Regiment at Catterick Garrison, North Yorkshire, where he achieved the rank of Sergeant. He was later recalled as an Army Drill and Weapons Instructor. After the war years he returned to the GPO as a postman at Sheffield. He married Barbara Cooper, also from *'across the street'* at Crookes, in Wesley Hall, Crookes, Sheffield 10. They set up residence in Wickersley (close to the ancestral home) where Colin was working as P&TO at Rotherham Post Office.
Subsequent promotions saw him serving at the Regional Headquarters at Leeds; Assistant Head Postmaster Huddersfield - becoming the youngest Head Postmaster in the country at that office; he moved to York and then Bradford being at the forefront of mails mechanisation at all three MLO's. He worked at Regional HQ at Leeds as North East Controller of Operations [Ed. - As 'Controller' Uncle Colin visited Darlington MLO where I was working 'on-the-floor'.] Colin returned to Bradford as District Head Postmaster retiring from there in February 1989 to Harrogate for twenty years.
He joined the General Post Office (GPO) as a Boy Messenger in Sheffield on his fourteenth birthday. At the outbreak of WW2 he was one of the last conscripts to the York and Lancaster Regiment at Catterick Garrison, North Yorkshire, where he achieved the rank of Sergeant. He was later recalled as an Army Drill and Weapons Instructor. After the war years he returned to the GPO as a postman at Sheffield. He married Barbara Cooper, also from *'across the street'* at Crookes, in Wesley Hall, Crookes, Sheffield 10. They set up residence in Wickersley (close to the ancestral home) where Colin was working as P&TO at Rotherham Post Office.
Subsequent promotions saw him serving at the Regional Headquarters at Leeds; Assistant Head Postmaster Huddersfield - becoming the youngest Head Postmaster in the country at that office; he moved to York and then Bradford being at the forefront of mails mechanisation at all three MLO's. He worked at Regional HQ at Leeds as North East Controller of Operations [Ed. - As 'Controller' Uncle Colin visited Darlington MLO where I was working 'on-the-floor'.] Colin returned to Bradford as District Head Postmaster retiring from there in February 1989 to Harrogate for twenty years.
Many thanks to the British Postal Museum & Archive (BPMA) who provided Colin's Establishment records up to 1985:-
Boy Messenger 28.12.42
Postman 28.3.47
P&TO (Postal and Telegraph Officer) 26.2.51
T/APC II 6.8.63
APC II 16.8.65
Assistant Head Postmaster C 19.5.68
Head Postmaster C/B7 6.10.71
" " B6 15.9.80
Boy Messenger 28.12.42
Postman 28.3.47
P&TO (Postal and Telegraph Officer) 26.2.51
T/APC II 6.8.63
APC II 16.8.65
Assistant Head Postmaster C 19.5.68
Head Postmaster C/B7 6.10.71
" " B6 15.9.80
[Sergeant York and Lancaster Regiment]
Sergeant C Charlesworth
[Pictured as brother Bill's bestman in 1947.]
[Ed: Two brothers married two sisters from *'across the street'*! My parents were Bill and Joyce.]
1635 - 1985
Royal Mail - 350 Years of Service to the Public.
Pictured with the Royal Mail Float are Colin Charlesworth, Bradford Head Postmaster, together with his wife Barbara.
© Robert Charlesworth - Colin and Barbara's son.
Royal Mail - 350 Years of Service to the Public.
Pictured with the Royal Mail Float are Colin Charlesworth, Bradford Head Postmaster, together with his wife Barbara.
© Robert Charlesworth - Colin and Barbara's son.
Souvenir photo of the last North East Regional Head Postmasters Conference at Ravenscar, near Scarborough, North Yorkshire.
Photo courtesy of Keith C Jones, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, October 30, 1986.
[Ed: Apart from my uncle Colin the only other HPmn I recognise is Bill Penn (Ex Darlington) 2nd right - my former boss!]
Colin presents the General Managers Award to Timothy Jenkinson, Francis Hutton, Alexander Watson and Simon Ward in April 1988.
