Rushden Research Group: Post Office

Post Office


This early postcard shows the bustle around the Post Office in about 1905, and before the High Street was widened in 1910.	A new Post Office and sorting room behind, in College Street opened in 1940

Royal Mail	Mr Seckington - 1907
Pay 1898	Mr T Dickerson 1917
Sub-offices	Postal Service to 1921
Directories	Mr Cunnington 1932
Post Office 1902-3	New P O Plans 1936
	New P O Opens 1940
Staff Notes	Van Drivers 1959


	Photograph by S Powell c1895 thought to be a local postman - note the railings below window

Rushden Echo, 1st January 1909

The 177 Pensioners in the Rushden Old Age Pension District, including Rushden, Irchester, Wollaston, Newton Bromswold, and Higham Park, will receive pensions amounting to £2,262 4s. a year.

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