Related Articles
Like banks, pubs and libraries – the places which held communities together – many of our post offices have disappeared from our towns.
It was once the only way to communicate, other than by phone, but the age of email and cost cuts saw the gradual demise of post offices including Blackpool’s most popular of all – Abingdon Street. Our archived photos remind us of the post offices we all used in times past, as well as a focus on the Royal Mail workers who sorted the mail and delivered it. It’s incredible to see the volume of mail in the sorting office, one photo was taken at Christmas in 1987. It was probably all Christmas cards…
1. Delivering the Mail
This was in the mid 1990s at Abingdon Street – are you pictured?
Photo: National World
2. Delivering the Mail
Normoss Post Office, 1990
Photo: National World
3. Delivering the Mail
Inside Abingdon Street post office. This photo was taken in 1968 when counter clerks went on strike over pay claims
Photo: National World
4. Delivering the Mail
In July 1994, postmen were allowed to wear shorts in the hot weather. This is Sean Isherwood and Stuart Goodfellow
Photo: National World
Source link
