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On My Way To School
This post office was called Muttons. It was run by Dorothy Mutton. I used the store to buy crisps and sweets on my way to Westgate school.
A memory of Cippenham in 1958 by
The Scene Today
The old town hall in the centre has changed little although at the time this photo was taken the town hall was in the building to the left known then as the Anchor Hotel, now Bar Vin. The fine building to the right has gone to be ...Read more
A memory of Horsham by
The 40/50s
It was the 118 bus Colin. It went from Clapham Common to Mitcham Cricket Green. I also remember well those wonderful Leo's ice lollies. After those awful slabs of lard between 2 wafers that went soggy they were magic - Walls's! My family ...Read more
A memory of Mitcham by
My Early Years In Longton 1870s To 1940s
I was born in Longton in 1933 at 151 High Street Post Office, Longton. All my childhood was spent there with my grandmother, Sarah Wright and my great aunt Matilda Ward (my grandmother's sister). Between ...Read more
A memory of Longton by
1940s In Og St George
Mrs.Ball at the Post Office. Westlecot House (now March House) with the Hayward-Jones family. Imo H-J and self at fete at the Manor house dressed as Shah of Persia and Aga Khan. Old Mrs.Ollie home help/cleaner. ...Read more
A memory of Ogbourne St George in 1940 by
Berwick Road C Of E School
I started at Berwick Road C of E School in 1957 together with some of the people referred to in the other memories ie: Heather Wallis, Christopher Bennior, Lorraine Staton. There were others obviously such as Margot ...Read more
A memory of Little Sutton in 1957 by
183 Bus To The Pinner Red Lion
All buses going to Pinner in the 1950's had the destination "Pinner Red Lion" as there was an old pub of that name on the corner of Love Lane and Bridge Street. The bus in this photo has continued its journey having ...Read more
A memory of Pinner in 1956 by
Working On Church Street Six Times
When in 2018 I started work as a supervisor in a shop on Church Street, it occurred to me that I had had four jobs & two volunteer posts on the road. The first was a temporary job in the late '70's under ...Read more
A memory of Great Malvern by
Life In Oxshott In 1940s And 50s Royal Kent School
I remember my first day at the Royal Kent School – 8th November 1948 – as recorded at entry no. 1450 in the school's original Admissions Register. It was a few weeks into the Autumn term, as in ...Read more
A memory of Oxshott by
Pioneer Christian (Interdenominational) Youth Hostel.
The newly named Pioneer Christian Youth Hostel, (open to all faiths) was situated 197O in the flat (apartment) accommodation basement of the old Methodist Church. The hostel was served by ...Read more
A memory of Sinderhope by
Captions
1,653 captions found. Showing results 337 to 360.
A grey day in post-war Lytham.
Opposite the Post Office a precipitous flight of 111 stone steps scales the hill from the town's square to Vernon Place.
On the right is the old post office and the agricultural hall.
A modern mini-market now houses Stokesby Post Office, and the building shown here has become a candle maker's workshop and a tearoom with a charming garden beside the river.
On the right we have Robertson, a chemist, and the local post office adding to the many shopping facilities for the inhabitants.
Now used as offices, the Post Office in Forster Square was erected in 1887.
The front of the premises of the post office and general stores has recently been changed with the opening up of the front of the part behind the telephone box.
On the right the weatherboard house is Retreat House, for much of the 20th century a post office, and now much extended.
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.
Farleigh Hungerford's post office closed in the 1990s, but the village retains a school, a church and a pub.
Mr Chappell`s newsagent`s and post office is fondly recalled by local residents but is now a Londis store.
The post office scene is virtually unchanged, except that the sun canopy has gone, and bicycle parking replaces the postbox under the cigarette advertisement, which has also vanished.
The main public entrance to the Post Office is just out of sight around the corner on the right.
The large building in the background is the Post Office, which was open from seven in the morning till ten at night.
On the right are the old Post Office and the red brick and pedimented agricultural hall of 1882, both now occupied by Anglia Television.
The octagonal chimneys with moulded caps match those we can see on the post office but the frontage of the inn is built in quartz and tufa, giving it a more rugged appearance.
Today it is smaller than in the past and many of the cottages are holiday homes.
James Powell, the vicar from 1789 to 1844, married Mary Twining of the tea family; the lychgate, visible behind the telephone post, was built in his memory.
It is difficult not to greet the intrusive 'modern' post office to the right of the photograph with a certain sadness.
Ripple is only a hamlet, but in the 1950s it still warranted its own Post Office.
Look closely at this photograph, and you can spot the Post Office on the extreme left with the premises of a blind and mattress maker just beyond it.
The small post office occupies a late 19th-century cottage.
Forty years ago the post office served as a motor garage, complete with petrol pumps.
The Infantryman memorial is still central to this view of the Anchor Inn and Bailey's the butcher's; note the little child passing the unmarked post office.
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