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Information On The Morrells And Then The Spittlehouses At The Post Office?
A Memory of Guiseley.
My mother-in-law was Edith Winnifred Clarke (known as Winn), born in Guiseley in 1916 and whose family, the Morrells ran the Guiseley Post Office from the late 1800s. She remembered as a youngster standing on the drawers below the counter so she could reach to help serve stamps etc.
Her mother Edith Clarke died in 1930 and I think her sister may have continued as Post Mistress.
Winn's elder sister Gladys later ran it with her husband George Spittlehouse before they moved to Norton, near Sheffield and ran the family catering firm for many years.
I think Winn's father Fred Clarke was involved in the Post Office somehow too but went to the war and was killed in October 1917.
All of them have passed on now. Both George and Glad some years ago, and also Winn (2012) and her husband Edward Green (Eddie) (2005), who married at St Oswald's in 1939. How I wish I asked more questions of them!
Pursuing family history, I'd be very interested to hear of any memories of the post office and its staff from 1900 to about 1940, and of Guiseley in general.
Thank you.
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