Broadwell Post Office
Courtesy of: Ewart Hawkins. Uploaded: .
The
sign above the window reads "A Smith General Dealer" The sign
in the window offers Hair Dressing. This building now houses broadwell
Post Office. Mrs Smith is pictured standing at the gate.
Thanks to Sue Longden, formerly of Christchurch.for pointing out (Oct 2006) "This is my grandma - Annie Elizabeth Smith".
Joyce Lea added (January 2010): "... the A. Smith whose name is above the shop was Ada Smith nee White who was the widow of Milsom Smith who was killed in 1906 in an accident at Broadwell Quarry. Mrs Smith was my grandmother and also the grandmother of Ewart Hawkins who supplied the photograph. Mrs Smith was left to bring up 6 children on her own - no widows pension then!" .
Brian Kear added (February 2011): "... My mother Mrs Mary Kear lived in the house to the right. She was also a widow but brought up eight children, I was the youngest, with little or no help from anywhere".
Jan Easter added (March 2011): "... I used to go to Broadwell primary school as did my father before me. He also sang in the church choir as a boy from 1930. My grandfather William John Taylor had the Old Post Office opposite the church in Church Walk Lane. My grandmother once ran a fish and chip shop from a converted garage adjacent to end house before theirs. When I was there that would have been early 1950's she was Annie Taylor. My dad occasionally used to help out in the butchers at the cross roads. I remember a sweet shop cabin and shoe menders Dick Tye used to be next to the hall where the school had party for coronation of Queen Elizabeth. The Hall was opposite school. Miss Stanton was head when I was at the school".
Rosemary Wilson added (March 2011): "... I used to spend all my summer holidays at the house on the right of post office with my grandmother aunt and uncles and used the post office frequently"
Roger Matthews added (June 2011): "... The headmistress at Broadwell School in the Fifties was in fact Miss Tanter a formidable lady who dressed in Tweed suits and brogues . . . ".
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