Old Post Office (Number 2)

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Around 1917 the Post Office moved across the Square to the site of 'Our Plaice'. It was run by Ida May Cox for many years. Later on the Post Office moved to the High Street to the right of the current chemist.

By 1935/6 it was a second hand furniture shop run by Mrs Wilmington. She also ran a small lending library.

Then it became a fish and chip shop run by a number of different people, the first being the Kingtons recorded in the Kelly's Directory of 1939. In 1943 Mr and Mrs Clavey rented the building and then bought it a few years later. Mr and Mrs Clavey left in 1954.

It was then taken over by Mr and Mrs Lewis Smith. The building was destroyed in a fire in May 1964 when some gas cylinders exploded.

The building was then rebuilt and continued as a fish and chip shop, run by Alec and Mary Beard and several other different owners.