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The War Years And Later
I lived in Annesley Woodhouse from 1936-1950, when I was conscripted into the R.A.F. for national service. I attended Kirkby Woodhouse School. The Owston's owned the post office, and the Chancellor's, succeeded ...Read more
A memory of Annesley Woodhouse in 1930 by
Bonners Drive Post 1963
I have lived in Bonners Drive since March 1963, it has changed a lot, all the hedges on the left side of photo have been removed, there is also another 4 houses which have been built on that side as well, built in 2010, ...Read more
A memory of Millwey Rise by
Grandparents Shop
My Grandparents, Joseph and Lilian Stokes, had this property built about 1953, they opened a general stores, the only one for miles around, and also ran the local post office in the shop, a few years later. Many many happy ...Read more
A memory of Compton Bishop by
Pound Street
My first main job on leaving school (Shaw House) was as a tea boy-dogsbody at H C James timber and builders merchants in Pound Street. For quite a while I cycled daily from Highclere Castle, approx 4 miles, it took me just over half an ...Read more
A memory of Newbury in 1956 by
Dalelands
The car in this picture is parked outside my old home. I wonder, was it my Dad's car? Not many of us had cars then. I spent many hours under the lamp-post as it got dark, before I got called in. We were pretty safe to play out in ...Read more
A memory of Market Drayton in 1960 by
Distant Memories
I had returned to UK from Queensland to visit my mother who was ill and waiting at the platform entrance at Waterloo station when a former colleague from Post Office Overseas Telegraph came up to me and we began a conversation ...Read more
A memory of Frimley Green in 1978 by
Growing Up
I was born in the former Mechanics Institute in Derwent Street, Blackhill in 1946 where my grandfather was the caretaker. My name was Ann Wall and my grandparents' name was Redshaw. My mother lived with my grandparents in the ...Read more
A memory of Blackhill in 1946 by
Childhood Memories South Park 1960s Approx
I like to remember my childhood in Darlington where I grew up until I moved to Whitley Bay. We used to spend lots of time in the South Park, on the swings, around the rose garden and of course the roller ...Read more
A memory of Darlington in 1960 by
Arrival Of Mail At Higher Clovelly Po.
This photo shows the arrival of Royal Mail being deliverd to the Post Office at Higher Clovelly. The mail for Clovelly village was then loaded on to the donkey and taken down the steep cobbled street to the Post ...Read more
A memory of Clovelly in 1930 by
The Ship Inn At Axmouth.
The Ship Inn can be seen to the left of the photograph; just beyond the wall. My great-great-grandparents, John and Mary Real (born in Axmouth in 1821 and 1824 respectively) were licensees of The Ship Inn, Axmouth, at the time ...Read more
A memory of Axmouth in 1960 by
Captions
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This uncompromising modern building opened on 10 October 1952, and was soon filled with the post-war baby boom and the children of Woolston's new housing developments.
The village post office often doubled as a general store, as the window-dressing here shows. The church was built in 1846, and is still a well-used and much-loved building.
At the height of the British Empire, the colleges took in the children of military officers and civil servants posted to far-flung corners of Queen Victoria’s realm.
Forty pairs of horses were maintained at the inn for posting.
Many businesses grew from the tourist trade that came to Wales in the post-war decades.
The Dolphin Hotel is an old coaching and posting house. By 1907 the railways had reduced reliance on coaches, and this one is probably an excursion coach.
The post-war building expansion is well shown in this mid-50s view of Oaks Lane, Willington.
Stone urns were added to the gate posts at a later date.
The village general stores and post office once housed its own manual telephone exchange.
The nearby post office is surely one of the most delightful of such buildings anywhere in England, situated as it is in a genuine Queen Anne building.
Forty pairs of horses were maintained at the inn for posting.
Post-war prosperity and the desire for modernity swept aside many of Rainham's old buildings. By the 1960s the supermarket was king. Families were buying new cars like the Standard in this picture.
A new retail block has been built between the post office and Marks & Spencer, replacing Lesters and the White Swan. Boots has moved from its previous location next to Woolworths.
Looking south-westwards towards the Stonebarrow Hill, the Forge and Blacksmith's Cottage can be seen on the left and a range of old thatched cottages rise from the Old Post Office (centre).
The post office in this pretty black and white cottage opened in 1840, the year the Penny Black stamp first appeared.
Prince Philip was its first Chancellor, and the Duchess of York served for many years after he left the post.
Along here were the post office, the Angel Hotel and St John's Church.
Whitmore Way was the site of Basildon's first proper shopping parade: this included a chemist, a hardware shop, a post office, a Martin's newsagent, a Home & Colonial store, and a much-needed chip-shop
However, the village post office on the opposite side of the roundabout is still there, although instead of Hovis, it now advertises the National Lottery.
The post box and telephone box must have been well used by residents at the camp. The Shoeburyness School of Gunnery was founded in the middle years of the 19th century.
The flint-faced post office is on the right. Note the lone policeman keeping a watchful eye on events in the right foreground.
On the left is the Georgian bow-windowed stores and post office. This has been a grocers' shop for over a hundred years.
The post office sat right in the corner of the crossroads, where a signpost directed motorists to the marshes, Woodchurch or Ashford. Today this village has several new housing developments.
Ludham has an example of the oldest type of hollow-post wind-pump, which is around three hundred years old.
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