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Newspaper Cutting 1957 'THE LAST DELIVERY'
Newspaper Cutting 1957 'THE LAST DELIVERY'
Photo: RON HUNT
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Item #: 27936
Postman Albert Rigby's last delivery.

Comment by: Albert. on 3rd June 2016 at 16:34

Ron. I bet he had quite a few shoes soled, and heeled. Did they get a footwear allowance, I believe at one time police officers' did, but I cannot remember.

Comment by: mike on 3rd June 2016 at 19:27

Well,at least that job was better than walking the streets.

Comment by: DerekB on 4th June 2016 at 16:39

Albert, I remember my father, Tommy Bond, who was a policeman in Wigan Borough and (very briefly) in Lancashire County when they merged, getting a footwear allowance. He always bought his boots from a company in London who were named Pannett's (not sure about the spelling!)

Comment by: Albert. on 5th June 2016 at 09:24

Derek B. Your dad was serving when I was in the Wigan Borough. There was a Tommy, who had been a war reservist, together with Danny Lowe. Was that your dad?. I was on a different section to your dad. I transferred to Kent in July, 1964. Wouldn't have done, but the writing was on the wall for the termination of borough forces, and you didn't have a crystal ball to project the future course things would develop into. Enjoyed the rest of my police service in Kent. Retired May, 1988.

Comment by: DerekB on 5th June 2016 at 14:11

Albert, that was my dad. Another war reservist I remember was Bob Julian, who lived in the Whelley area. Do you remember another PC named Bert Derber who had moved to the Wigan Borough force from Stafford? He was a rookie under my dad's wing on the Beech Hill beat in the late forties.

Comment by: Albert. on 6th June 2016 at 09:41

Derek B. Can't recollect Bob Julian. Bert Derber rings a bell. Unless they were on your watch, you didn't come into contact with them all that often, and it is so long ago.

Comment by: John D on 6th June 2016 at 19:32

The Julian family lived on Wallace Lane, Whelley. Three brothers,Alfred, Robert and Frank. I don't know their father's name but it might have been Bob. Mrs Julian was a widow when I knew the family in the early fifties.

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