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    4. Holmbury St Mary, Post Office c.1965

    Holmbury St Mary, Post Office c.1965
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    Photo of Holmbury St Mary, Post Office c.1965
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    More about this scene

    The Frith photographer's desire to take views of post offices has led him to ignore the beautifully-situated village centre around its green and also the good 1879 church, designed, built and paid for by the architect George Edmund Street and surrounded by a backdrop of woods. Instead, he took his camera down Pitland Street to the south. This pair of 19th-century cottages with their bracket door hoods survive: the one on the right was the post office with a shop in the garden, which has now been demolished. The cottage is now named The Old Post Office.

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    A Selection of Memories from Holmbury St Mary

    For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Holmbury St Mary

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    Evacuation To Holmbury St Mary
    At 7 years old I was evacuated from Croydon to Holmbury in 1940 so knew the village and the P.O. very well. My older sister (Miss Ruby Shove) was also evacuated there as a young teacher at the village school. My memory is of Eric Bullen from the P.O. so was he your father or have I mistaken the name? I am now 85 years old.
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    I live in one of these houses with my grand parents and my parents. As my grandfather work on Bulmer Farm as a herdsman. Before he retired. My mother work at Beatrice Webb. As the Cook.
    Holmbury St Mary, the Village c1955
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    Harry Bullen
    That my Grandad in this pic.(Harry)
    Holmbury St Mary, Pitland Street 1906
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    Holmbury And Post Office
    I have virtually all these original post cards as shown on this site. After my grandfather (Harry Bullen), Holmbury Post Master, stopped publishing his own, he changed to Friths. My bedroom was in the western end of the P.O (see tiny window) overlooking the shed in the attached pic. This was an electrical shop in the 50's 60's run by Pat Overington. My father, Godfrey, was born in the house. More later if anyone interested .
    Holmbury St Mary, Post Office 1914
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