Llanthony, The Post Office c.1930
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The post-box is still on the side of the house, but the post office closed on 8 July 1969. The last person to draw his pension there on 4 July was W J Lewis, a farmer. From then on he was faced with a journey to Llanfihangel Crucorney Post Office. Mrs Powell, the Llanthony post- mistress, had a strawberries and cream party to mark the closure.

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I went to live in Llanthony village around 1970 with my husband who was brought up at The Daren Farm, and our children Lynda and Andrew. We lived in The Cornmill which is directly opposite the old post office, it was called Mill Cottage then and Met and Gertrude (Rachel) lived there. She always amused me when she answered the phone because she had a posh 'phone voice', she was a real character. Also in the village - there ...see more
The Llanthony Post Office was originally the Mill Cottage and my great great great grandparents George and Margaret Harrison lived there. Just across the track from there was the Mill which was three storeys high, and George was the Miller of Llanthony. They lived there, as recorded in the cenus's of 1841 through to 1861, and from then on their daughter Margaret lived there with her husband Daniel Nichols, who was a carpenter.