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The last letter.
The last letter.
Photo: Keith Beckett
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Item #: 30737
The last letter posted from Landgate post office before it closed. Circa 1966.
The photo is from the Betty Shaw collection and features her three daughters. Patricia posting the letter and Elaine and Kathleen.

Comment by: Veronica on 6th September 2018 at 14:33

What a lovely photo to treasure - it seems an older scene than the sixties

Comment by: Alan on 6th September 2018 at 15:20

Great, I love the 60s.

Comment by: Keith Beckett on 6th September 2018 at 15:45

Veronica

I saw Mrs Shaw earlier at the Park Lane chapel coffee morning.
She loaned me a number of photos to post on WW.
Her daughter Elaine was born in 1961 and looks about 5 or 6 on the photo.
The post office was a treasure. It was previously a weaver’s cottage and should have been given listed status. I went to the primary school close to the post office and can still remember the smell and taste of the liquorice sticks we used to buy there.

Comment by: Philip G. on 6th September 2018 at 16:32

A great photo Keith! And perhaps there's also a hint of sadness in the girls' demeanour.

Comment by: Veronica on 6th September 2018 at 17:14

Yes Keith I believe it is in the sixties - there's just an atmosphere about it that seems from a more gentler time. Thanks for putting it on here.

Comment by: irene roberts on 7th September 2018 at 08:49

I can see what Veronica means. The girl posting the letter is dressed as little girls were in the sixties. I remember having dresses and shoes like hers, and a knitted bonnet. And yet the two figures to the left look as if they're from the twenties or thirties. A very special photo.

Comment by: Veronica on 7th September 2018 at 10:03

That's right Irene - could almost be a modern child 'popping'back in time to post a letter! ( If only we could!). Looking forward to more of these photos Keith from the Betty Shaw collection.

Comment by: GW. on 7th September 2018 at 22:16

Dear friend.
I write down words of simpler times,
when change was then and action rhymed.
I bid farewell to letter sent,
and ponder how my thoughts were read.
To you my friend i send always,
my love undying on this day.
Young hand shall speed my message yours,
Not time shall forfeit heart nor cause.

Comment by: Janet on 10th September 2018 at 02:48

I have lovely memories, when as a little girl, living at Perry Brook, I would go to this post office and get treats of some kind.. I loved that little Post Office... Was so sad when it closed, even though I was then a teenager..

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