Ashley Post Office

History of Ashley Post Office

1911 12 01
The trial of the men charged with burglary at Ashley Post Office heard that police had kept them under surveillance and posted officers at three large houses in the district. Nothing was reported during the night but in the morning the postmaster discovered the office had been broken into and money and postal orders stolen. Police were soon on the scene, armed with revolvers and a gun they raided a house where they found three of the prisoners sitting around the fire. 11 12 01f (Mike Petty)

1926 09 30
At the Newmarket Police Court a solicitor on behalf of Greene, King & Sons, brewers, said there was a real difficulty in Ashley in obtaining premises for the sub Post Office and he proposed that it should be attached to the Crown Public House. In order to do this it would be necessary to carry out structural alterations. Nobody could enter the public house through the Post Office, or the Post Office through the public house. If it were possible to get another property it would be desirable to do so as the language at a public house was not always of the best (MP)