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Post Office
The New Post Office opened in 1940
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

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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