Old post office, Woodditton (RGL2025)

Post Office and Shop, Woodditton

History of Post Office

1934

Post office and shop taken over by parents of Rodney Vincent. Family moved here because of father’s TB.

From the post office my family sold stamps and postal orders. We cleared the wall mounted red “G R” post-box daily and weighed parcels and packages on the post office scales. We date stamped the mail with the wooden handled “Wood Ditton” stamp, …..

When we first arrived in the village the post office had the only public ‘phone (Stetchworth 18) occupying a shelf in side the shop. Conversations had to be shared with anyone present, but later on it was moved to a passage connecting the shop with our living quarters where there was a little more privacy.

By September 1943 we had had enough of the shop. After father died mother had struggled on for six years with the reluctant help of my sister, who now wanted to get married. War was still waging and in another year I would be joining the navy,

(R H Vincent, A Tanner Will Do)

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1939 Post office

Florence Vincent, b 1888, sub post office mistress

Florence Vincent, b 1915

Rodney H Vincent, b 1926