Now I am never surprised at what turns up on eBay,
especially when my old friend David Harrop is involved.
At Beech Road post office, 1914 |
So here with a little bit of our postal history is a
reminder that once we had a post office on Beech Road.
During the 19th century it moved around a bit but
by the end of that century was at number 109 Beech Road.
And on October 17 1914 one parcel passed through the post
office.
I would love to know where it
was going and for that matter that was to receive it, but all we have is this
section of the parcel.
Post woman, circa 1916 |
In time I will check out who the sub-post master was on that
day, but I think it could have been Mr Robert Chorley who was doing the
business of selling stamps and all things posty three years earlier in
1911.
The shop was also a stationers and this was clearly the primary
business as on both the census for 1911 and the in the street directory he
describes himself as a “Stationer and Sub-Post Master” and he was no doubt
helped by his wife, Hannah Elizabeth.
The couple had been married for eight years and had taken over the post
office sometime after 1901.
And that is about it for now.
Location Chorlton-cum-Hardy
Picture; parcel post markings, 1914, and post woman, circa 1916, courtesy of David Harrop
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