The Post Office: A memory of Nether Wallop

The Post Office

A Memory of Nether Wallop.

My father Oliver Hiinwood was postmaster here from 1903 to 1961. He used to take photographs of the village and send them to Frith's to be developed and then sold the postcards in the shop. The photograph shows the garage where we kept our car and to the side of that was a bakehouse where bread was baked daily. The person walking towards the shop is the Revd Frank Walter Hyne-Davy who was vicar of Nether Wallop.

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I remember Uncle Olly so well, not really an Uncle, but he was a good friend of my Family. A couple of years before this photograph was taken my Father Ray Bonner left me outside the shop in my pram, made his purchases and went home, forgetting all about me. Luckily a close neighbour realised what had happened and took me home. He never lived that down.
In the late 60’s I remember visiting Uncle Olly in Cornwall when we were on holiday there.
I remember visiting the Bakery often, how I loved going in there, the smell was amazing, it all tasted pretty good too including the jam doughnuts.
Another memory is after the “Munn Family moved into the Post Office. Their children were a similar age to my siblings and I, we were invited to a Halloween Party. Dress up, that’s what we were told. We didn’t really know what to expect the point of this is that it was held in the old Bakery, which the Munn’s closed. It was handed over to their children as “their space”.

By christinehillman1 on Thu Jan 17th 2019, at 10:32 pm

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