Post Offices

[AlanWCollins]

I'll try and get a photo of it next time I am that way - but the one I remember most fondly as a child is the post office in Wainscott. It was just down the road from my grandparents and every summer me and my sister would stay with them (either together or a week at a time each) and go there to get a card for my parents' anniversary (which was in September).

I always tried to find one which would give me enough change to buy a big bag of sweets (usually a pic n mix in one of the paper "Happy Shopper" bags).

I think it's a hairdressers now.

[Chatham_Girl85]

mmmm happy shopper pick n mix.
how much i loved a 20p's worth

[kenty]

I used to love 6d worth too....

White mice, shrimps..... aahhh

[pilgrim]

Brings back memories of BO coin collections round the Medway towns(BO-branch office). A girl from the office in Rochester, a postman, van and several hundred weight of coin of the realm. The telegraph boys used to have a room in the office in Chatham, dingy little place to the left as you went under the arch.

[kyn]

Bredgar

[merc]

Skinner Street, Gillingham. (above pic pre-1914)

[unfairytale]

10 King's Street. Dover.

[oldsunset]

I used to love 6d worth too....

White mice, shrimps..... aahhh

6d  !!!

8 fruit salads for a 1d..
or blackjacks or mojos

[ellenkate]

Buckland PO Dover c.1913 postcard:

[LenP]

The much missed Northgate sub PO in Canterbury.



and the counterstamp.

[merc]