Description

Summary: digital scan, photo: New Milton Post Office, Station Road North. See Bailey and Lake page 31.

Identification note: The main post office was built in 1933, the first official postmaster being Mr Weston, and the telephone exchange was installed upstairs in 1934. There were three full-time female telephone operators, plus a part-time seasonal operator, and there was a bedroom in the exchange for a male night operator. There were just 6 telephone subscribers in 1905. That had risen to 600 by 1933. By 1955, the main post office area encompassed Ashley, Barton, Bashley, Milford, Sea Road (Barton) and Wootton. The sub post offices at Manor Road and Beechwood had been added by the 1960s. Its closure in 1995 was not without incident: compensation was awarded to staff due to the lack of proper consultation procedures prior to the relocation of the post office Martins' newsagents on the east side of Station Road.

Identification note: part of collection of digital scans of images relating to our area. All black and white. New Milton. all used in book "New Milton" by M. Bailey and C. Lake.