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I was there.
John your memories of Blackboys Post Office bring back cherished memories of my own. I was fortunate to have lived in Brownings Cottages opposite the PO and at the age of ten I helped ?? to remove the counters and walls one Saturday afternoon, with yourself, your father and Mr Berry, who referred to me as FOREMAN.
Contributed by robert dann
Blackboys Post Office
This was the year that I and my family moved into the Post Office where we lived for the next 9 years. During this time I saw lots of changes to the buildings accross the Framfield Road. My father changed the inside of the Post Office. The old wooden counters were removed and replaced with open shelving and self service shopping.
There was a sorting room inside the Post Office which was busy each morning as the post and parcels were sorted into different rounds for Nora who delivered everything on her red bike, except at Christmastime because of the amount of parcels and post. This was deliverd by car with lots of help.
The Post Office is no longer there ...read more here
Contributed by John Hawes
East Sussex memories
I was there.
John your memories of Blackboys Post Office bring back cherished memories of my own. I was fortunate to have lived in Brownings Cottages opposite the PO and at the age of ten I helped ?? to remove the counters and walls one Saturday afternoon, with yourself, your father and Mr Berry, who referred to me as FOREMAN.
A memory of Blackboys contributed by robert dann
Blackboys Post Office
This was the year that I and my family moved into the Post Office where we lived for the next 9 years. During this time I saw lots of changes to the buildings accross the Framfield Road. My father changed the inside of the Post Office. The old wooden counters were removed and replaced with open shelving and self service shopping.
There was a sorting room inside the Post Office which was busy each morning as the post and parcels were sorted into different rounds for Nora who delivered everything on her red bike, except at Christmastime because of the amount of parcels and post. This was deliverd by car with lots of help.
The Post Office is no longer there ...read more here
A memory of Blackboys contributed by John Hawes
Extracts From Blackboys & East Sussex books
Blackboys is a small iron industry village. Its name is believed to have come
from the appearance of charcoal workers as they emerged from working in the
woods. The village also had a well-known post-type windmill, which was
sited by the main road.The 14th-century Blackboys Inn has been recently
restored after fire damage.
An extract from from"Villages of Sussex Pocket Album".
The railway originally
ended at Terminus Place
(which is hardly surprising),
and housing was laid out
along the old lane onto
the common: this became
Western Road, with Summer
Heath Road a turning off in
the distance of this view. All
the houses on the right, apart
from the one in the middle
distance with two hipped-
roofed bay windows, have
since been demolished. The
1960s library, together with
modern housing estates, have
replaced them. The survivor
is now a Citizens Advice
Bureau and a working men’s
club. The recreation ground
is on the left.
An extract from from"Hailsham Photographic Memories".
Half a mile south of the hamlet with the parish church and Chiddingly Place is another
small hamlet, Muddles Green, where cottages fringe a small green. All four buildings in this
view are Victorian: the one on the left, Birch Cottage, is of the 1860s, and the one behind the
telephone pole, Jubilee Cottage, is dated 1887, while the others are of about 1900. Behind the
photographer is the 1906 village school, and on the right the green has been enlarged with
new houses built in the 1990s, Willetts Field.
An extract from from"Hailsham Photographic Memories".
This interior view of the
church shows the 15th-
century nave arcades and
chancel arch; the ghost
of the original roof line
can be seen high above
the chancel arch. The
medieval roof survives, but
it was lifted in 1889 when
the Victorian clerestory
was added. The Victorian
improving biblical text
over the chancel arch has
been replaced by the more
familiar ‘Jesus said: I am the
way, the truth and the life’.
An extract from from"Hailsham Photographic Memories".
This view is taken from the brick four-centred arch into Market Square. The brick footpath heads
towards the porch which, with the south aisle, was added in 1870 to designs by H E Rumble. Above
are the round quatrefoil windows of the clerestory added in 1889, which must have made the
interior much lighter. On the left are the backs of buildings that front the High Street, while the yews
and hollies in this view survive today.
An extract from from"Hailsham Photographic Memories".