Edward Sandle on Communication

Well my father moved to the Island after the War in 1947 and naturally I came with him and then living near the sea made me interested in the sea and so I went to sea in the Merchant Navy as a Radio Officer. After some time with them, I then went into the Diplomatic Wireless Service and after a couple of tours abroad, my wife decided she didn’t want to go abroad anymore so I came back to live on … well, eventually I came back to the Island with the Post Office to Niton Radio Station.

I joined the Post Office in 1971 and I came over to the Island about a year later. In those days Niton Radio Station was owned and operated by the Post Office and the Post Office was part of the Civil Service at that time, so it was a fairly straight swap from the Diplomatic Service into the Post Office, so I could do that and retain my pension and everything else.