Fetcham, Post Office c.1955
Photo ref:
F168020
Photo ref:
F168020
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Memories of Fetcham, Post Office c1955
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In 1954 my mother, Winifred Diwell, was the cashier at Baxters the Butchers in this parade. Meat would be served at the counter by an aproned butcher who would weigh and wrap the meat in paper and then spear a small paper ticket bearing the price onto the package with a silver wire thing that looked like a miniature sword. The shopper then took the parcel across the dark wood cubicle where my mother sat. She ...see more
This parade of shops is in my memory for ever - my family moved to Orchard Close - which starts just beside the post office on the right of the picture - in 1946. My brother was five and I was six months old. We were there for twenty years. Every day, until a supermarket appeared in Leatherhead in the early sixties and we got a fridge, my mother would walk down our road and buy the food for ...see more
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