Lost images of Whalley Range part 4 the Post Office opposite the Seymour, and a collection of Dinky toys

There has been a post office on Upper Chorlton Road for over a century and for most of that century it was run by the Lloyd family.

Of course things have changed.

The Seymour Hotel has gone, few now remember the area was called the West End and the post office is no longer run by the Lloyd's.

So I shall slip back to 1960 when the parade of shops including our post office looked pretty much as they had done at the beginning of the last century.

Back them the post office was also a stationer’s and a private lending library and offered up a whole range of other things including dinky toys.

These were made of metal and during the time I was growing up became ever more sophisticated featuring everything from plastic windows to working suspension, 'fingertip steering', detailed interiors, and jewelled headlights.

All of which was a far cry from the simple box on wheels that I had first been given and perhaps the point to stop before I slide into some nostalgic ramble about the toys of the 1950s.

Picture; the Post Office, Upper Chorlton Road, 1960, A.H.Downes, m40740 , courtesy of Manchester Libraries, Information and Archives, Manchester City Council