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Arrival of Mail at Higher Clovelly PO.

Post Office, Transfer of Mail 1936
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This photo shows the arrival of Royal Mail being deliverd to the Post Office at Higher Clovelly. The mail for Clovelly village was then loaded on to the donkey and taken down the steep cobbled street to the Post Office in the village where it was delivered by the postman. The Royal Mail employees in the photo are Roy Fisher who was the local postman, and on the right is Studley Shute of Bideford. Roy Fisher was very well known in the local travelling concert parties that travelled around the villages of North Devon entertaining many people throughout the 1940s and 1950s. As a small boy I would sometimes be lucky to get a ride up the Clovelly High Street when the donkey returned with the outgoing mail.

Written by Graham Shackson. To send Graham Shackson a private message, click here.

A memory of Clovelly in Devon shared on Friday, 22nd January 2010.

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