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Memories
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Mr James Bishop.
The elderly man on left is my grandfather Mr James Bishop. He had probably popped in to the Post Office to get tobacco for his pipe. He was born in Worcester in 1883, his father was a master builder and from an early age he used to ...Read more
A memory of Redditch by
Memories.
My mother ran Burraton Post Office from 1950 to about 1990 and sold Frith postcards. The cows are being driven by Mrs Cook, a farmer's wife, whose farm was about 300 yards behind the photographer in Liskeard Road, Burraton. The farm was ...Read more
A memory of Burraton by
Village Memories.
This is a view of the top of West Street with the Post Office on the left. The Postmaster then was Mr Herbert Winn. Opposite is Tetts Farm with the milk churns awaiting collection outside. The farmer was Henry Best. The ...Read more
A memory of Hinton St George
My Home
I lived in Rose Cottage from mid 1965 to July 1966 when we were posted to Germany. At the time it was divided into two cottages. Myself, my husband and my 6mths old son lived in no2 which was the cottage on the left side looking front ...Read more
A memory of Over Wallop in 1965 by
Holidays In Uley
My Uncle Gus and Aunt May lived in South Street and I spent a number of holidays with them at Easter and during the Summer for 2 or 3 years in the early 50's. I loved climbing up to the Bury with my Aunt's nephews, Tony and Reg, ...Read more
A memory of Uley in 1953 by
Sandhills
This is where I was born in 1950. I remember being pushed in my pram into Witley to the Post Office. Although I was only a baby I remember the peace of the area. It was a wonderful place to be born.
A memory of Witley in 1951 by
Meadvale As A Living Village
When we first moved to "the estate" in the early fifties I would have to catch the bus into Reigate as I went to school in Holmesdale Road. The school I have forgotten about but what is memorable was the smell of the ...Read more
A memory of Reigate in 1957 by
Jacksons Boat
Reading the post about catching sticklebacks in the Bridgewater brought memories flooding back. I lived in Clifton Street, off Stretford Road. At the weekend we used to get some butties off our Mum, a bottle of pop (if she could ...Read more
A memory of Stretford in 1955 by
Childhood Memories
This is the street where I was born in 1940, our house is just out of sight, but when I left school in 1955 I worked for a short while in the shop adjoining the post office. Sadly my father, who was in the Army, was posted to ...Read more
A memory of Sandhurst in 1955 by
Captions
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Like Morgan's the confectioner's (C240004), this shop (left), a post office and grocer's run by Pardey & Johnson, was built at the end of the 19th century.
By the mid 1950s, post-war rationing was coming to an end, and local shops were once again offering a choice of goods.
The building on the left was the General Post Office from 1898 to 1972, and the building in the centre was designed by Alfred Waterhouse for the Prudential Assurance Company.
This photograph was taken from roughly the site of the old Post Office.
The post office is on the right.
No children play outside the post office, which is now a private residence.
The post office and general stores in Leigh Street was, and still is, important to the community.
The ugly Post Office (right) replaced the fine old granite building which was once the town house of the Trevenen family of Bonython Manor.
Resourceful individuals often took advantage of the growing number of visitors to North Wales in the post-war years.
Opposite the post office is the Ship public house.
From about 1600 Broadway was a thriving staging post, and horse-drawn carriages by the dozen stopped here to feed and water en route from London to Worcester - a journey of more than 17 hours.
In the centre of the picture, the George and Dragon, with its quaint porch and balcony supported on brackets, was originally an old posting inn.
The tall building in the distance to the right of The Queen's Head was then Matlock's post office.
On the left, outside the post office, two postmen are among the group eyeing the camera.
On the right is the post office; near here is the point that the Ordnance Survey declared was the centre of the British Isles.
Mithian lies just off the Perranporth to St Agnes road.
The Post Office and the King's Arms Hotel on the right are still there today.
Extra road traffic has also made the road outside the busy village stores and post office (just to the left of the car) a frequent bottleneck.
The staff of Askrigg post office pose for the cameraman.
On the right of the picture is the village post office and shop.
Notice the whipping post on the right.
The delivery truck parked on the left hand side is outside the post office.
Beyond is the old post office, which still retains the original sign on the wall.
Several holiday camps were built near Lowestoft in the post-war period.
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