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Post Office
I remember that postage stamp machine outside the post office. If you put a halfpenny in the penny slot & flicked it in forcefully you obtained a penny stamp. My mother made me & a friend, who shall remain nameless, return ...Read more
A memory of Skelmanthorpe by
Harrow Driving School Rayners Lane 1985 1986 Approx
Memories of getting the tube from Arnos Grove to Rayners Lane and then the long walk up Imperial Drive - until reaching the driving centre. The set up included traffic lights, zebra crossings, ...Read more
A memory of Harrow by
High Street Wilburton
This is the other side of the road from the Post Office, with a very old car parked in front of Hazel's shop, which sold all sorts of things including penny chews and sweets. You can see the old tree, and the bus stop and the end ...Read more
A memory of Wilburton by
Post War Harlesden.
I was born in Tredegar, South Wales in April 1941. My mother had been evacuated to that small welsh town when she fell pregnant with me in 1940. We lived with her parents. My dad was away doing War things. We moved back to London ...Read more
A memory of Harlesden by
Names Of People And Buildings.
Here we are looking down West Street with the village school visible at the end. On the left is Tetts Farm with the milk churns, while next is Manor Farm, farmed by Reg Newick. The thatched building before the ...Read more
A memory of Hinton St George
Smart's Fish Saloon.
Re Smart's Fish Saloon. My parents Peter and Wyn Pellerade owned this from 1952 to the early 60s when it was demolished to make room for flats. The site never got used but has recently been developed into a doctors surgery. ...Read more
A memory of Bishopstoke by
My Early Years
On the 2nd September 1952 I was born at Manor Farm. I lived there with my parents, my maternal grandfather and two older brothers. I know my grandmother was alive when I was born but, unfortunately died soon after. My grandfather ...Read more
A memory of Yealand Conyers in 1952 by
Happy Times
During the last war my father served in the Merchant Navy and saw Aberdaron from the sea, that was to be the beginning of many trips and a life-long love of the village. I started going to Aberdaron at about the age of six and have been ...Read more
A memory of Aberdaron by
"Hoylake Baths"
I recall happy memories of the Bathing Pool. It had two fountains spurting over fake rocks. We used to climb on these to cool off. In those days the Summers seemed to go on forever. The baths used to attract large attendances in those ...Read more
A memory of Hoylake in 1957 by
Where We'd Spend Our Tuck Money
As a child aged 7 in 1955, I used to holiday with the Shaftesbury Society at a camp, just round the corner. The camp had several dormitories, each accommodating about 10 children. The fortnight I'd be there would be ...Read more
A memory of Seasalter by
Captions
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The village Post Office on the right has a small sign attached to the wall which reads 'Post Office for money orders, savings bank, parcel post, telegraph, insurance and annuity business'.
Here we see Preston Post Office just a couple of years after it opened.
The Post Office c1960 Buckland St Mary Post Office is still a post office, but one wonders for how much longer.
The building on the right is the Overmonnow Post Office, advertising a Parcel Post service and with the built-in post box to the left of the window.
This lovely old picture of the village centre shows the Post Office and a Post Office van outside.
A nice link with the past is this photograph of the Spa post office complete with stamp machine and wall post box.
The post-box is still on the side of the house, but the post office closed on 8 July 1969.
Here we see Preston Post Office just a couple of years after it opened.
The post office and stores, seen here, closed in the early 1980s when it was converted into a dwelling house.
Here we see King Street before the Post Office moved to the High Street in 1919.
Although not the post office at the time of this photograph, the post box outside must have been an omen of things to come, because today the building houses the Drayton Post Office and Stores.
The post-box is still on the side of the house, but the post office closed on 8 July 1969.
When every home did not have a telephone, the telephone box beside the post office offered access to the outside world, and so did the red post box.
Post Office Road was originally called New Road.
The lady on the left is leaving the single-storey extension containing the post office and posting box.
Here once was Nether Wallop Village Store and Post Office.
Outside the Higher Clovelly post office, postman Roy Fisher accepts the sacks of local post from the Bideford van.
The post office stands on the left; Thomas Robinson was the sub-postmaster here, as well as being a carpenter.
The major landmark is the windmill, a post mill dated 1665.
This view east of the 1897 church shows the cottages and the post office, now closed; the telephone box has been removed and the post office converted to a house, called unsurprisingly The
Opposite are Chapel Cottage, Chideock Court, Alice Cottage, and Chideock Post Office (far right).The enamelled sign ove the door offers the services of the day: 'Post Office for Money Order, Savings Bank
Outside the Higher Clovelly post office, postman Roy Fisher accepts the sacks of local post from the Bideford van.
In common with other mills in the area, it is a post mill, with the mill revolving round the central post.
The Frith photographer's desire to take views of post offices has led him to ignore the beautifully-situated village centre around its green and also the good 1879 church, designed, built and
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