Postwoman Mbe 1948 - Pathe report

[TrueBlueTerrier]

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Langrish, near Petersfield, Hampshire.

L/S of elderly postwoman, Ethel Carter, leaving post office. C/U of Ethel looking at letters. L/S of Ethel walking. She enters gate to churchyard. M/S of Ethel walking towards vicar standing outside church. She gives a letter to the vicar and walks away.

C/U of Ethel walking along country lane. L/S of the postwoman delivering mail to farmer's wife. Various shots of Ethel walking over field passed plough, over stones and through mud. L/S of Ethel walking through gate and up garden path to thatched cottage.

Ethel has been awarded an MBE for working as a postwoman for 45 years.

[Lounge Lizard]

Look how light her bag is.
Wouldn't have managed 45 years weighed down with six Door To Doors a week.

[DirtyHarry]

How have we got from that, to having HCTs which still cannot carry all the mail we get on a daily basis.

[stokes11eg]

We'd get a tin badge! LOL. And I'd almost prefer that uniform! (But not the glasses)