Rushden Research Group: Post Office

Post Office - Post Boxes - Notes


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

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.

Rushden Echo, 23rd November 1917, transcribed by Kay Collins

Parcels For The Front—The Postmaster at Rushden calls attention to the fact that parcels for the British troops in France should be posted as long as possible before December 14th. No parcel for the B.E.F. will be accepted after December 14th until December 26th. Letters for delivery by Christmas Day must be posted by December 16th. Parcels should be posted early, packed well, and addressed fully and clearly.

Rushden Echo, January 4^th 1924, transcribed by Kay Collins

Letters from London to Rushden

From London there were only two despatches of letters daily to Rushden—6.55a.m. and 11.35p.m. The Federation of Boot Manufacturers’ Associations approached the Postmaster General, who has, from Monday last, provided an additional mail from London to Rushden, leaving by the 11.35a.m. train, to be distributed by the 3p.m. delivery at Rushden.

Rushden Echo, 29^th February 1924, transcribed by Kay Collins

Court Estate residents petitioned the postal authorities to erect a pillar-box at the Newton-road end of Court Avenue, to save a walk of a mile each way to post letters. A reply has now been received, stating that the request has been granted and that the permission of the Local Authority is being sought for the erection of the pillar-box.

Rushden Echo, 14^th March 1924, transcribed by Kay Collins

The Council gave permission to the Post Office authorities to place a letter box on the guide post at the junction of Newton-road and the Court Avenue.

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