Now I have decided to return to the series which tells the story of Chorlton-cum-Hardy in a collection of objects.
A long time ago I ran the first series of 20 objects and returned a few years later with a second instalment.
And today Ed Jury has set me off again with his picture of a Victorian post box which he saw while “walking along Ivy Green Road and noticed the post box outside the corner shop was from the Victorian era.
On closer examination I saw the B&W information plate gave the address of the former Post Office in Beech Road”.
Which is all well and good, and very useful, were it not that the Beech Road Post office closed in 2005, ending a presence which went back a century, and more.
There will still be many who remember it, but memories fade, and there will come a time when it will be forgotten.
Leaving some future historian to fasten on perhaps the only record locally of its existence, unless of course Royal Mail come and update the information.
Leading finally to ponder on how many post boxes around Beech Road also carry this historic notice
We shall see.
But for all those about to go off on the search of the century, I have to advise caution, because my old friend David Harrop who is an expert on things posty, tells me "Post boxes always keep their names, as in Beech Road post office. Just helps with the admin as there are so many."
Well, no negligence on the part of Royal Mail then.
Still I like the story.
Location; Chorlton
Picture; the post box on Ivy Green, 2020, from the collection of Ed Jury
And today Ed Jury has set me off again with his picture of a Victorian post box which he saw while “walking along Ivy Green Road and noticed the post box outside the corner shop was from the Victorian era.
On closer examination I saw the B&W information plate gave the address of the former Post Office in Beech Road”.
Which is all well and good, and very useful, were it not that the Beech Road Post office closed in 2005, ending a presence which went back a century, and more.
There will still be many who remember it, but memories fade, and there will come a time when it will be forgotten.
Leading finally to ponder on how many post boxes around Beech Road also carry this historic notice
We shall see.
But for all those about to go off on the search of the century, I have to advise caution, because my old friend David Harrop who is an expert on things posty, tells me "Post boxes always keep their names, as in Beech Road post office. Just helps with the admin as there are so many."
Well, no negligence on the part of Royal Mail then.
Still I like the story.
Location; Chorlton
Picture; the post box on Ivy Green, 2020, from the collection of Ed Jury
Wthere was a Victorian post box in the wall at the side of the shop that used to be Mr and Mrs O'Brien 's on Ivygreen Road. I think it was closed up during the 70s due to fears of letter bombs at that time.
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