The site of the Post Office before it moved across the road next to the Steam Bakery
1960–1962
The site of the Post Office before it moved across the road next to the Steam Bakery. It was run by Mr Shrimplin with help from his daughter, Edie. Vera McCardy (nee Watson) assisted in the shop until her marriage in 1960. After Mr. Shrimplin died his daughter continued to run the Old Post Office until 1962 after which it became a private house. The Post Office sold an assortment of other things; jars of sweets lined up on shelves, sherbert dabs in the window, and cans of parrafin in the back lobby. Mr. Shrimplin's other daughter, Pat, married Bert Spencer and they kept the Chequers pub for a few years and had a daughter, Doreen.
