Post Office Faces: 10 years on

I loved creating this exhibition in the then newly-renovated post hall at Sheffield Institute of The Arts. It launched 10 years ago today, a chance to say hats off to the fantastic GPO employees

I loved creating this exhibition in the then newly-renovated post hall at Sheffield Institute of The Arts. It launched 10 years ago today, a chance to say hats off to the fantastic GPO employees who starred in it.

Of course, its been something of a decade since ace snapper Nigel Barker and me gathered these 70-somethings (older in some cases) together in the old post hall where they had worked in the 1950s and 1960s. What we found were some proper Sheffielders who hadn’t set foot in the building for 50 years or more, but were indelibly forged and formed by it.

They were absolutely brilliant to work with - Betty and Mary even being chosen to share their memories on Radio Sheffield and styling it like pros, no media training required.

It’s bittersweet to look back like this as we’ve lost some of those photographed here - to say nothing for the changes we’ve all encountered in the subsequent years - Brexit, the Horizon scandal, Covid.

But it’s an opportunity to reflect on a fantastic generation and the contribution they all made to the city.