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Comment by Jill Muir on May 13, 2010 at 3:11am

My newly updated website, with additions has been uploaded and can be seen at:
http://www.kingston-bagpuize.com

Comment by Jill Muir on May 13, 2010 at 3:09am

Recently updated the Longworth & District History Society website. Have given it a new look. Added our links to Facebook and Twitter pages too.

Comment by Jill Muir on April 25, 2010 at 1:36am

New book published by the Longworth District History Society -' GROWING UP IN LONGWORTH
Ray Dunsdon
ISBN 978-0-948444-54-8 Thematic Trails (2010). 123 pages (A4), £6.00

See http://www.thematic-trails.org/
Oxfordshire-Goldenridge

Comment by John Alan Jeffries on February 14, 2010 at 12:55pm

Ok Jill.

Perhaps what I could do on the discussion page is to refer the FB society to the post office annals on your site and then set out all the new pieces of info and guesswork.

I would like to rewrite part of the annals to include the new info, but I might wait until the PO records appear on Ancestry. (The last time I looked 29% had been transcribed).

After my last comment, I remembered that I had seen something else about a sweet shop in the Soc's reminiscences you sent me - this was of a table of sweets in someone's back kitchen. This made me think that the sweet shop may have been in the back of the old PO. In the photo of the old PO in KB Sense of Place, there is a side door towards the back of the building. If so, then there is the possibility that the Jeffries may have lived at the back of the house with the sweet shop and Mr Lane had the PO at the front rather than in the Corner House!

It is getting quite difficult now to pull it all together into something coherent, without too much conjecture, but I'll see what I can do. I am also concerned that it might be rather long for one discussion entry.

Al

PS Do you think that the Electoral Registers might throw any light on the matter?

Comment by Jill Muir on February 14, 2010 at 5:29am

Hi Alan,
Have just been catching up on these most interesting snippets of research you have been doing. Would it be a good idea if you copy these below and post them on the Discussion page on FB Longworth District History ?

Jill

Comment by John Alan Jeffries on February 10, 2010 at 10:30am

Hi Jill,
I have just found out that James Henry Jeffries, the sometime sub-post master of KB died in 1924 at the age of 79, so it looks as though he retired in about 1914 and the post office went to Mr Lane. Originally I thought that he had died then. James's wife, Mary, lived until 1925. We know from Sybil Beard that during WW1 the PO was with the Drew family in the Corner House and then with Mrs Russell by School Lane. We also know from her that Mary Jefferies had a sweet shop at the old PO when Mrs Russell held the new one. Perhaps this means that when James retired, he and his wife stayed in the old PO with Mary running the sweet shop, and that Mr Lane had the PO at the Corner House, before it went to Miss Lilian Taylor.and then the Drews. When the PO was by School Lane, James and Mary wouldn't have had far to go to collect their old age pension. I wonder whether James got a pension from the PO.
As far as I know, Mary's death ended my family's association with KB after nearly 250 years.
Best wishes, Al

Comment by Jill Muir on September 2, 2009 at 11:33am

That is great news, thanks you Al. Now WE at the history society actually know where it is. Thanks you.

Comment by John Alan Jeffries on September 2, 2009 at 11:21am

Hi Jill,
It does look as though house number 27 which you found for me at TNA is the old post office. The 1911 census still shows James as sub-post master employed by the GPO, although he is also shown as being a domestic gardener. His niece is shown as clerk to the sub-post master. The entry is immediately before Mr Ricketts the Carpenter and Wheelwright as in 1901, and the enumerator appears to be moving west down Faringdon Road.
Best wishes,
Al

Comment by Jill Muir on August 18, 2009 at 3:11pm

Yes I have Al,thanks, but if you would like to why not add this description to the Discussion Forum please. I think it will more likely stay there.

Comment by John Alan Jeffries on August 18, 2009 at 11:25am

Hi Jill,
Have you seen this before? It's from The Stripling Thames written by Fred S Thacker in 1909. There is a bit about KB about halfway down.

Regs Al

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