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Memories
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St Day Evacuee Lost Memories
I too was one of the London evacuees taken to St Day school to be selected by a villager; Miss Murton a shop owner took me into her home. Miss Murton gave up her shop with the rationing and coupon counting. Can anyone tell ...Read more
A memory of St Day in 1940 by
Mine And My Mum Avrils Memories
My memories relate to the year 1977 when I arrived in Cropwell Bishop to stay with my Great Uncle Wilf and his wife Dorothy fresh from New Zealand. They lived at the old Post Office in the village of Cropwell ...Read more
A memory of Cropwell Bishop by
Ann & Vic Norman's Shop
My mother Joyce Stannard worked at the shop in this picture in the foreground with the canopy next to the wine merchants. When she started it was a little wool shop owned by Miss Wright - she sold it to the Norman's who expanded ...Read more
A memory of Cobham in 1960 by
Fair Oak As It Was
My first day of school was September 1965 at Fair Oak Infants. It wasn't too bad the first day as my Mum was allowed to stay at the back of the classroom, but after that I was left on my own. I became very ...Read more
A memory of Fair Oak in 1965 by
Snowing And Floating
Can't be too specific about the year, just know I was young. Perhaps we'd not been long in our house on Carr Lane, having lived in Dronfield before. What a treasure this house was, running water, separate bedrooms and ...Read more
A memory of Dronfield Woodhouse in 1956 by
Rainy Days & Sundays
We used to go to Art Gallery & Museum on Sundays, especially if it was raining. We took the tramcar from Possilpark right to the door. My sister and our four brothers spent many happy hours there looking in wonder at all the ...Read more
A memory of Glasgow in 1940 by
Post Office
This photograph has changed little I think apart from the demolishing of the public toilets on the right. The wooden notice board on the railings advertised the weekly films featured in the "Mem" and always drew my attention as I walked ...Read more
A memory of Pontycymer by
The Slate Islands Easdale
THE SLATE ISLANDS By Walter Deas Some 24k (15 miles) south and west of Oban lies an area with interesting old ...Read more
A memory of Easdale in 2005 by
1945 To 1966
My grandparents, Jabez Smith and Kate his wife owned the post office in Coombe Valley Road, formerly Union Road, before and during the war. Their daughter Rose Moss (my Mother) ran it from the age of sixteen. They also owned and lived in ...Read more
A memory of Dover by
Visiting This Shop
I started Gainford School in 1954 & remember Miss Browns little shop crammed full with habberdashery, stockings (nylons) hankies, knitting-wool, etc., everything you could possibly want - an oasis in this small village. She ...Read more
A memory of Gainford in 1955 by
Captions
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The Gaumont Cinema is a bingo hall now, and the Post Office is a J D Wetherspoon's pub, The Postal Order.
Hale is a typical example of a suburban post office in the Edwardian era. Housed in Kennerley's drapery store, local mail would be sorted and delivered from here.
The offices of the Swansea Evening Post are to the right. Now demolished, this building had variously been Town Hall, factory, jail, and post office. In its place there is just grass.
The shop next to the post office used to belong to E C Whitney, a manufacturer of clerical clothing such as cassocks, surplices and stoles.
In our photograph, the village stores and post office were sheltered from the roadway behind trimmed hedges.
The post office and the village shop were at the heart of Thelwall life in the mid 1950s.
Henry Gibbs ran the post office, filling station and village store for many years.
Following the closure of the post office and stores in March 2003, a community shop and post office opened in the barn of the Swan in December 2003.The single-decker bus is approaching another now
The Main General Post Office is on the left of the photograph. Gone are the days when it opened seven days a week from 7.30am to late in the evening.
Leysdown is the most easterly village of the Isle of Sheppey.
The café is in the building at the top of the lane, with a post office and grocer's under the signs.
Coventry Motor Company (later Caffyns) was the most centrally situated in the Broadway, whilst Dinnages were and still are in Sussex Road.
The village shop and post office are featured prominently in this picture.
Bristol cigarettes and Brooke Bond tea could be purchased at the Post Office Stores, run by M S Beevers at the time of this photograph.
The post office at Cadnam certainly has plenty of stock and a variety of advertisements. A Calor Gas stockist, the shop also boasts Brooke Bond and Walls ice cream.
Another view of Chideock Post Office (right), looking eastwards to Mervyn House, Staddlestones, and Rose Cottage (centre).
The post office on the corner has advertisements for the Doric Cinema, Newmarket. The post office and its sign have now been transferred to the second terrace house.
Here we see an old post windmill in its last stages of decay. It appears that the mill has been used as a source of firewood.
On the other side of the road is a lamp post advertising the post office.
But the post box has crossed the road to be near the new Post Office on the left, and the pillared building on the extreme left is now a Pizza Express.
Originally built as an estate office for Thomas Wakeling, this building eventually became the permanent home of Mundesley Post Office in 1910.
This is Post Office Lane, and the village post office was located in the cottage on the left for many years up until 1966.
The Post Office C1960 Bransgore, north of Christchurch, grew over the years as a sprawling residential village.
Because Samlesbury Hall was so near, the area was popular with walkers and day trippers in the post-war years.
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