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Description: | The road to Winchester is on the left of the building and Hazeley Road on the right.
Built in the 1880's this building replaced an earlier Post Office opposite the Phoenix Inn. It housed the local telephone exchange whose switchboard had to be manned day and night, sorted local mail, and received and sent telegrams. The telephone exchange handled calls from Twyford, Owslebury, Shawford and Colden Common, but fortunately most ordinary people did not own telephones. The telegrams were delivered by bicycle. The Walker family ran the Post Office from the 1880's until 1948.
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Reference:
Pearce, D. and Crooks, S. (1999) Twyford: ringing the changes. pp.139 - 142 | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Rights holder: | Hampshire Library and Information Service - Hampshire County Council | Subjects: | building Hazeley Road Post Office Twyford telephone | Temporal: | start=1880-01-01; end=1900-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Copied by: Dine, Derek; Hampshire County Library; 1970s-1980s | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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