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Good Place In Which To Grow Up
Really strange looking at the photo of Oxford St circa 1955. It took me some minutes to work out that I was looking at the old Post Office from the Square. I remember the railings outside the Post Office. I guess ...Read more
A memory of Pontycymer in 1955 by
Camberley...Where Do I Start ?!
Our family lived at Lightwater (1 High View Road) ; I passed 11 plus and was sent to Frimley And Camberley County Grammar School, starting in Sept. 1959. One of the first things we had to do was to get the uniform. We ...Read more
A memory of Camberley by
An Arreton Childhood
I lived in Arreton from birth until my marriage. My family consisted of Dad and Mum, my sister Gill, my paternal grandparents and a retired infant teacher Miss Muskett. She taught me at home before I began school at the ...Read more
A memory of Arreton in 1940 by
Whitehill In The 60s And 70s
My husband Vic moved into the brand new council estate in 1968 with his parents and sister - Champney Close. His house backed onto the common and MOD training land. He’d stand up on the embankment watching the trains ...Read more
A memory of Whitehill by
Were You At Port Regis Convent Or Similar Catholic Schools Or Convents 1950s 1970’s
Hello I was at Port Regis between 1953 - 1955 I was 7 when I got there and left just before my 10th birthday. Was anyone else at Port Regis, Broadstairs when it was a convent for ...Read more
A memory of Broadstairs in 1955 by
Skewen 1983 4
I lived in Skewen from September 1983 to May 1984 - only a short time in my life but it made a big impression on me. My wife Fiona, new baby Siobhan and I rented a house at Caenant Terrace facing the railway and the mountain. We had ...Read more
A memory of Skewen by
Grandma's Shop
I was born Nov 5, 1939 at 81 Star Lane, the home of my maternal grandparents, James and Anne Maria Bullock. My mother, Annie Grace Bullock, was the youngest of six children. She married my father, Henry George Hooper, in 1935 at ...Read more
A memory of Canning Town by
Standon Life.
I had a wonderful childhood growing up in Standon. I went to the old school in Standon High Street. We walked across the road to have dinner in the village hall. We had the luxury of a swimming pool - outdoor changing rooms. We had ...Read more
A memory of Standon by
A Polzeath Lad
I grew up in Polzeath and my two best mates also lived in the area, sadly, both dead now. I remember in the summers the CSSM coming down and staying in New Polzeath, arranging lots of beach games in the afternoons but building a ...Read more
A memory of Polzeath by
The Queen's Visit
I cannot be specific as to the date of the Queen's visit because I was very young at the time. On the left hand side of the road you can see what was at one time the post office but which later became a carpet shop. On the ...Read more
A memory of Little Sutton in 1956 by
Captions
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The village post office often doubled as a general store, as the window-dressing here shows.
Note how the whipping post has three arm positions, according to the height of the offender.
To the right are the post-war council houses and the filling station in the Globe Hotel car park.
This sleepy row of terraced cottages has, in fact altered very little, although there is no longer a post office here.
On the right is Waterloo Cottage, which until the mid 1970s was the post office and village shop.
The house on the left was (and still is) Hallow's post office.
Here we see the Post Office complete with children and a horse and trap out- side.
Here we see a quiet scene in the centre of a village that has become overwhelmed by post-war bungalow developments and surrounded by caravan and camping parks.
Hemmings' shopfront is a collage of mid 1950s consumer wares: for the smoker, there are Woodbines, Player's and Gold Flake; for the reader, Picture Post, Home Notes and the Leader.
In the simpler days of the 1950s, village post offices across Dorset were places where the whole community might meet and were a vital lifeline to the outside world.
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.
A milkman pushes his cart at some speed past the post office on the corner.
Along here were the Shire Hall, the Victoria Institute, the Hop Market, St Nicholas Church, Foregate Station, hotels, shops, and the main post office.
In recent centuries, Honiton was a staging post on the coaching route between London and Exeter, and some of its inns catered for the stagecoaches and their passengers.
The White Bull pub (right) is still in existence, but many of the other buildings have gone, and so have the telegraph posts and school sign (left).
The tall building to the left is the post office.
Only the post office is still here, and it too is under threat of closure.
Here we see Terling Stores and Post Office.
Basically a grocery shop and off-licence, it also accommodated Wickford's post office around the time of our picture.
Four heavy stone posts standing on a tall base decorated with quatrefoils carry timber beams and support the roof of the Market Cross.
The post office at the entrance to the Shambles (centre) was built in 1901.
On the right, outside the post office selling Park Drive cigarettes, there is an old-style red telephone box, and beyond it two village shops.
Military Road is interesting for two reasons: the construction of the new road brought a number of maritime business premises to Military Road, which has been widened considerably; and this post-war
The Post Office had occupied these premises since the 1930s.
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