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Memories
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Childhood In Bryn Y Maen
As far as I was concerned there was nowhere else, only what I read or what my parents told me, my life centred around the post office, church, vicarage and Bryn Eglwys, and the neighbouring farms, the lovely views to ...Read more
A memory of Bryn-y-maen in 1930 by
The Red Lion And The Square
My parents ran the Red Lion between 1953-83. I was brought up here and went to Blendworth School, Mrs Byrne was the headmistress. The pub was situated on a tight bend on the old A3 and was regularly hit by vehicles ...Read more
A memory of Horndean in 1960 by
Number 2 Montague Terrace
Barbara Brian. I loved reading your memories of Montague Terrace and I thank you for them. Were you the young Miss Andrews that rode that posh bicycle and lived behind the shop and did your dad at times teach tap ...Read more
A memory of Bishopstoke in 1930 by
Working As Staff Nurse At Western Infirmary
I worked as a staff nurse at this fine hospital for several years in the sixties. I was hired to work in the Renal Unit-however, it had not yet opened when I started. I was put to work wherever extra ...Read more
A memory of Glasgow in 1966 by
Meifod In The 50s
This photo brings back many happy memories of Meifod in the 1950's when I used to go on holidays there with my family. The white building in the centre was the bank and the photo was taken outside the Lion Inn where my grandfather ...Read more
A memory of Meifod in 1950 by
Childhood Days
I lived in Kingskerswell as a young child and emigrated to Australia in 1986. I was 10yrs. I missed it dearly and have fond memories although I forget the names of streets etc. I went to the local Primary school both old and ...Read more
A memory of Kingskerswell in 1880 by
Good Teachers
Does anyone remember the teachers at the Sutton Primary School? The Headmaster Mr. Curwen, Mr. Andrews, Miss Staines, and Miss Walker. In those days we spent a lot of time outside in the countryside studying nature, dancing ...Read more
A memory of Sutton at Hone in 1940 by
Mixed Feelings
I first arrived in Llanegryn at the latter end of 1939 along with my younger sister and a lot of other kids from my school (St Johns)in Birkenhead. I was eight years old at the time and my sister was six. We were all put into the ...Read more
A memory of Llanegryn in 1930 by
Aveley An Age Away.
I lived in Aveley Villiage from when I was born in 1957 until we moved to the Kennington Estate about 1971. We had a funny house in Church View which seemed to be back to front compared to some of my friends houses. Our end of ...Read more
A memory of Aveley by
My Schooldays 1952 54 Near Skipton
My Grandparents lived at 26 Otley Street in Skipton from the 1940 ( or earlier ) and I had first visited them in 1945 after VE day, They were Thomas Henry Jackson, my Grandmother Charlotte Jackson and their ...Read more
A memory of Skipton in 1952 by
Captions
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The General Post Office on the left opened in 1898 and was used as such until 1972, when the Post Office moved to a new building higher up the street.
The post office (note the recruiting posters on its wall, right) was kept by Henry Chatters. Beyond is the Shoulder of Mutton, whose landlord Frederick Godday was also a butcher.
Woodford Halse Post Office has moved to the electricity shop, while Cundy's, the former post office, is now an empty shop (2002).
The lamp post on the right marks the site of the town's first post office of 1835.
The post office here, like so many in rural areas, closed and was incorporated into Post Cottage.
The gap after the first house on the right hides the site where the Co-operative shop and the post office were. The shop has closed, and the post office is now run from a private house.
The sun highlights the front of the post office on this quiet, peaceful road. A bicycle leans against the wall. Strawberry growing was still a popular occupation around here.
The Post Office building on the right with the big 17th century brick stack is now a pub wittily called 'The Last Post'.
The post office on the left probably sold most basic needs, including engine oil, while the Mother's Pride van in the distance provided a home delivery service.
Next to an 18th century house of some interest, the post office, along with the pub, was the focal point of village life.
This pair of windmills stand on Outwood Common: a post mill with four double-shuttered spring sails and a roundhouse protecting the trestle, and also a tall weatherboarded smock mill.
Frith's photographer has chosen to record the post office, a somewhat feeble piece of Surrey vernacular revival-style with a tile-hung first floor.
Until 1894, they had to be placed inside an envelope before they could be posted. Then things changed, and they could be posted without an envelope for half the normal rate.
The post office, now Swan Cottage, displayed advertisements for Walls ice cream and Bird's Eye frozen foods.
The early 19th-century post office building with its dummy upper window (right) closed in 1998, and the post office was relocated in Orford Supply Stores opposite.
The post office cum garage is now a house named, unsurprisingly, The Old Post Office. To the left is the churchyard wall.
The first building past the row of cottages on the left was the post office and a beer house many years ago. In the 1960s it was a village shop, but that now has closed.
The last post-mill in the county, dated 1711, it blends with the owner/managers house and the store shed to provide a self-contained industrial group.
The post office, now Swan Cottage, displayed advertisements for Walls ice cream and Bird's Eye frozen foods.
Much more survives of the buildings on the left side of the Broadway, seen here just before the War Memorial replaced the drinking trough and lamp post.
The thatched roofs of Ducks Bottom (left), the old post office (centre) and Vine Cottage (right) nestle in the heart of pastoral Eype hamlet in the coastal valley west of Bridport.
A concrete telephone kiosk and the Post Office (centre) stand behind military barbed wire at Tyneham.
A concrete telephone kiosk and the Post Office (centre) stand behind military barbed wire at Tyneham.
Here is the local post office in more rural days; it also served as a general stores. In 1895 the village had the benefit of a post and money order office, supervised from?Gravesend.
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