Post Office
If you arrive in Port Sunlight by train today, the first building you’ll probably notice as you walk out of the station, is the Tudor Rose Tea Rooms.
But for those of us lucky enough to grow up in the village, then the building you would have seen on the corner of Greendale Road & Park Road was the old Post Office.
I think I have been in the Tea Rooms just the once but I would have stood in the Post Office countless times either buying a bag of cinder toffee or waiting to cash my dole cheque!
To see how the Post Office looked in 1953 take a look at the Then & Now Tab.
“The Village Post Office fits in well with the general architecture. Port Sunlight Railway Station is in the background.”
from the Story of Port Sunlight
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| The old Post Office, August 2013 |
Anyone remember when the Post Office closed?
ReplyDeleteAnne, do you remember buying cinder toffee from the old post office and do you know when it closed?
ReplyDeleteI do indeed Dave!!!! Could eat some right now too!!!! I also liked spearmint chews - although nowadays l actually don't like mint or associated tastes or smells!! Rob's favourite were pineapple chunks & pear drops. I've been naughty & googled the answer to the post office closure - apparently it was January 2005. Did you know that the Nat West Bank, next to the Library is also a coffee shop now? It's name escapes me right now...🤔X
ReplyDeleteJust looked it up, it's called Nettle and it is also a secondhand bookshop! Two of Sarah's things are coffee and books! 📚☕️
ReplyDeleteWowwww.....me toooo Sarah!!
ReplyDeleteThey even have a seating area in the old vault - with the original door!!! 😬😁x
Nettle! Itself a favourite item. But yes, coffee and books may come joint first in the league of favourite things. Oh and I don't know if I should reveal this or not: I learnt to make cinder toffee at school . . . in Sydney!
ReplyDeleteWhoa!!!!....you can make 'Sydney cinder toffee'....you like books & coffee....have l got the perfect sister-in-law or what!! And Katey makes an amazing nettle soup!..so we're all connected!! 😍🥰X
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