In 1961, a teenage Bill Cockburn joined Royal Mail in Glasgow. Having ‘passed through the ranks’, he served as a member of the Board for 14 years, he became Chief Executive in 1993. Royal Mail historian Duncan Campbell-Smith describes him as an ‘uncompromising figure with an impressive ability to set clear goals’.
1900s Sir Thomas Gardiner (1883-1964)
1600s Thomas Witherings (died 1651)
1600s Launch of Royal Mail’s Investigation Department
1900s GPO Rescue and Salvage Squad
2000s 150th Anniversary of the National Portrait Gallery (2006)
1900s Coping with the influx of letters from the front during World War 1