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New Farm
I attended Edmondthorpe village school from 1947 to 1953. I live at New Farm with my grandparent Harry and Ethel Gresham. My mother Betty Bratby, nee Gresham, my two brothers Jim and Tim Bratby, uncles John, Harry and Paul. A lodger ...Read more
A memory of Edmondthorpe in 1942 by
Thomas Tench
I have a copy of my Grandfather's Naval records and it shows he served on the Royal Adelaide in 1887 as a B1C(whatever that means). His name was Thomas Tench. As I have never seen a photo of him I keep hoping a crew photo from one of his ships will turn up. This was his second posting.
A memory of Devonport in 1890 by
Wonderful Memories Growing Up In Bassaleg
I lived in Bassaleg from the age of 3, (1955), when Church Crescent and surrounding area was being developed. I lived in Church Crescent with my family until I left for Manchester in 1976. I went to the ...Read more
A memory of Bassaleg in 1966 by
Memories Of My Childhood
I was born in 1956, in Wiltshire, but my first memories are of Pawlett, where we moved, when I was very small. It was a smaller, quiter village than it is even now. I went to the village school, on the village green, next ...Read more
A memory of Pawlett in 1961 by
Lost Boy
Would like to find the family and whereabouts of Elsie May Jones, local address 'Broadwoodbunge'. If you can help, please contact mjroffey@yahoo.co.uk Subjet EMJ. February 2010
A memory of Clungunford in 1930 by
Researching Ancestors
On Sunday 21st Feb 2010 my mother, family and I visited Hinton Charterhouse to look for information on the Wiltshire family who lived in the High Street. We found the bow window house that was a butchers shop and ...Read more
A memory of Hinton Charterhouse in 2010 by
The Riding School
I spent two weeks of every school summer holiday in the 1950s in Allonby with my mum and two aunts and numerous friends. We used to either rent a cottage in one of the farmers' fields or in a old converted train carriage. It was ...Read more
A memory of Allonby by
Catterick Camp 1944
Following completion of my initial Army training at Squires Gate Camp, Blackpool and at Warley (Essex) I was posted to the School of Signals at Catterick. Le Catau and Baghdad Lines. After several weeks of Training as an ...Read more
A memory of Catterick in 1944
More Corwen Memories
It was abuot 1950, and we were having what we called PT lessons, the infants teacher Miss Olwen Davies had us playing 'What's the time, Mr Wolf?, culminating with 'Miss' (the wolf) turning and chasing us, shouting "Dinner ...Read more
A memory of Corwen in 1950 by
Growing Up
I have some very happy memories of growing up in and around Burwash. Both sets of my grandparents lived in Swife Lane. Mr and Mrs Frederick owned Corner Farm, where my mum grew up, and Mr and Mrs Smith lived in Byeways. I remember as a ...Read more
A memory of Burwash in 1972 by
Captions
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On the right, next to the last parked vehicle, was the town's main post office before the current one was built in St John's Square.
On the left was the shop that included the post office.
There are shops, a post office, a village hall and a sports pavilion.
The lampposts have changed, and the telephone cables and posts have disappeared.
From about 1600 Broadway was a thriving staging post, and horse-drawn carriages by the dozen stopped here to feed and water en route from London to Worcester - a journey of more than 17 hours.
The earlier Corn Exchange on Cornhill was demolished in 1880 for the new post office.
The adjacent post office was erected in 1881, with statues of Industry, Electricity, Steam and Commerce standing below the Royal Arms.
Several old houses still survive, and the general store and post office were built in the garden of one of them.
From 1874 until 1987 this was Cheltenham's main post office, and today it is a department store.
The name of the village and the river comes from the Meonware tribe, who were Jutish settlers of the post-Roman period.
There is also a post box.
The Bull Hotel in the centre of the picture is still described as a 'Posting House'.
The post office we see here on the right is now a private house; the door between the windows has been blocked up, leaving an entrance only from the side.
The author Flora Thompson lived here for a time just before the 1930s because her husband worked at the local post office.
The Little Shop was formerly a stationer's, and Sanders, to its right, was the post office.
The post office and the two houses to the right were originally one house of c1520.
To the right there is a pair of post war council houses, a typical development in most of our villages.
The chains on posts are still here to protect rowers from the hazards of the weir.
The post office moved next door to the White Hart from the newsagent across the road in 1945.
There are a number of old posters sticking to the walls - these days there is a discreet sign which tells us that 'Bill Posting is now Prohibited'.
Occupying the corner, right of centre, is Thorogood's ('Fancy Pastry Cook') - originally built as the town's first post office in the early 1870s.
In 1922 the Post Office built one of its well-designed Neo-Georgian buildings next to the London Guarantee and Accident Company on the left.
hill.Wright's Garage, on the right, emphasises that shortly after the First World War the internal combustion engine had begun to supersede the railways.The half-timbered building is the Cross Keys.The Post
The fencing on the left has now been replaced by a wire fence and the sign post, still on its grassy triangle, has been modernised and now includes directions to the M25.
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