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Mathers Of Kniveton
My grandad was Thomas Richard Mather (b 1890) he married Emma Ann Twigg (b 1890 Parwich). His mother kept the Post Office at Kniveton and was a dressmaker, Esther Mather. His brothers were blacksmiths and wheelwrights. His ...Read more
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Childhood Memories
My grandfather lived in the tied cottage on the Plas farm in Lower Machen. His name was Albert Thomas, known as Bert. I have many fond memories of him and his cottage and playing around the farmyard and watching him complete ...Read more
A memory of Lower Machen in 1977 by
My Evacuee Days.
My family was evacuated to Eaton Socon after being bombed out in London. My father was serving in The Royal Navy. I was only a baby so my memories only go back to about 1943. I came to Eaton Socon with my mother, her parents ...Read more
A memory of Eaton Socon in 1943 by
So Many Happy Hours
I spent so many happy summer holidays in Great Barton, and in particular Conyers Green where my Aunt Norah Lovelace lived in a cottage next to the old chapel building. I cycled often to the village store/post office, and ...Read more
A memory of Conyer's Green by
Holiday In Carbost June 2008
My friend and I spent a very enjoyable holiday in Carbost this year - pity there are no old photos of the place. We stayed in the Old Inn, and later on in the Langal guesthouse, as the Old Inn was ...Read more
A memory of Carbost in 2008 by
Post Office
I was born in Hereford in 1952 to Roland S G Hodges and Doreen his wife. I have fond memories of Kings Caple and Fawley. My grandmother ran the village post office for nearly 40 years right up to decimalization. She ran her Post ...Read more
A memory of King's Caple in 1960 by
Memories Of The Civic
My first memory of the Civic was that awesome ceiling, seen for the very first time at a do hosted by the then new Evening Post newspaper, for all the delivery boys & girls. Probably not long after the hall opened. The ...Read more
A memory of Dunstable by
Lost Times
My memories are of Okenden in the early days, my father was born there and was from a family of 11 children, he was called Arthur Oakley, he lived there when the local bobby walked the streets pushing his pushbike, and if he did ...Read more
A memory of South Ockendon in 1959 by
Cholderton Post Office
I spoke to my Dad last night to share what I found on Cholderton. He grew up in the Cholderton Post Office building in the 20's. He also lived in the cottages in the laneway that leads to St. Nicholas Church. He described ...Read more
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Personal Reflections
I was born in Sandleaze, Worton in 1957. I was brought up at 1 Mill Road near the Marston boundary. I remember many things about the village especially the Rose and Crown Pub and the Mill. I remember with pride the ...Read more
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Captions
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Here we see Preston Post Office just a couple of years after it opened.
This lovely old picture of the village centre shows the Post Office and a Post Office van outside.
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'.
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.
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. The last person to draw his pension there on 4 July was W J Lewis, a farmer.
The Post Office c1960 Buckland St Mary Post Office is still a post office, but one wonders for how much longer.
The post office and stores, seen here, closed in the early 1980s when it was converted into a dwelling house. An earlier post office had been located in the row of houses on the left.
Here we see Preston Post Office just a couple of years after it opened.
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.
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.
The post-box is still on the side of the house, but the post office closed on 8 July 1969. The last person to draw his pension there on 4 July was W J Lewis, a farmer.
Post Office Road was originally called New Road.
Here once was Nether Wallop Village Store and Post Office. Now it is a house and a tiny plate above the shop window reads 'The Old Post Office'.
Outside the Higher Clovelly post office, postman Roy Fisher accepts the sacks of local post from the Bideford van.
The major landmark is the windmill, a post mill dated 1665.
The lady on the left is leaving the single-storey extension containing the post office and posting box. Post Office Lane runs off to the left, level with the bus stop.
The post office stands on the left; Thomas Robinson was the sub-postmaster here, as well as being a carpenter. Letters were despatched from here at 12.45pm and 6.20pm.
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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