Item 9275

ITEM 9275 is a collection of 12 colour photographs (6” x 4” / 147mm x 101mm) with a duplicate copy of each and their negatives in a white 220mm x 110mm Telecom Australia envelope.

The printed return address :-

Training Section, G.P.O. Box 5555, Brisbane Q’ld. 4001

The envelope is also stamped with :-

TELECOM AUSTRALIA Chosen Supplier of Telecommunications for World Expo 88.

The envelope is labled in hand written biro :-

Reg Cockburn Retirement  circa 1990 and a comment ‘Wal Harris  d. 1997’.

I scanned the photos in 2022, with the photo labelled “a – Reg Cockburn – Retirement” and the back of the photo showing the names of some of those people in the “a” photo labelled as “b – Known names of those in the ‘a’ photograph”.

Reg Cockburn had worked as a Telecom Australia Training School instructor. At the time of his retirement, he was the senior officer in charge of Queensland staff training and was based in the City Office, Brisbane.

During the Reg was working as an Instructor, the Technical Training Schools were located at Hesketh House in Elizabeth Street, beside Saint Stephens Cathedral, and at Banfield Street, Chermside.  The Chermside site was extended in the mid 1960’s with 2 new 2 story classroom blocks, then extended again in the 1970’s with 2 more classroom blocks.  These were all demolished in 1990, for a new modern single story structure, which was then demolished as part of the Chermside Shopping Centre extensions.  

Lyndley Northcott.