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Burton post office #303981 24th Mar 2009 4:07pm
Joined: Mar 2009 Posts: 77 neston nestonlad OP Member
OP nestonlad Member Joined: Mar 2009 Posts: 77 neston	Picked up this nice picture postcard of burton post office.The sign above the door reads M.Cottrell licenced to sell tobacco Attached Images burton post office c.1905.jpg (58.25 KB, 83 downloads)

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Re: Burton post office nestonlad #304049 24th Mar 2009 10:43pm
Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 308 Prenton Doctor_Frick Old Hand
Doctor_Frick Old Hand Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 308 Prenton	Nice one. I was there not long ago with Dava249 and didnt see that bld. Maybe its gone now. Over 5000 years of Wirral History:

Re: Burton post office Doctor_Frick #304072 24th Mar 2009 11:16pm
Joined: Jul 2008 Posts: 14,549 Likes: 34 Wirral diggingdeeper Wiki Master
diggingdeeper Wiki Master Joined: Jul 2008 Posts: 14,549 Likes: 34 Wirral	It looked a bit differen in the sixties .. There's a real danger that the left will drag Britain back to the 1970s, with secure well-paid jobs, ample housing, properly-funded NHS and social care, free tuition, student grants, final salary pensions, affordable rail fares and fabulous films and music. David Osland 2025 We don't do charity in Germany, we pay taxes. Charity is a failure of governments' responsibilities - Henning Wehn https://ddue.uk

Re: Burton post office diggingdeeper #304074 24th Mar 2009 11:26pm
Joined: Jul 2008 Posts: 14,549 Likes: 34 Wirral diggingdeeper Wiki Master
diggingdeeper Wiki Master Joined: Jul 2008 Posts: 14,549 Likes: 34 Wirral	The building is still there, but it doesn't look like it is a Post Office any longer ... Attached Images BurtonPostOffice.jpg (25.3 KB, 57 downloads) There's a real danger that the left will drag Britain back to the 1970s, with secure well-paid jobs, ample housing, properly-funded NHS and social care, free tuition, student grants, final salary pensions, affordable rail fares and fabulous films and music. David Osland 2025 We don't do charity in Germany, we pay taxes. Charity is a failure of governments' responsibilities - Henning Wehn https://ddue.uk

Re: Burton post office diggingdeeper #304109 25th Mar 2009 10:16am
Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 190 Wrexham Historybook Enthusiast
Historybook Enthusiast Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 190 Wrexham	There used to be a post office in Puddington as well at one time, not sure when it closed, perhaps 1980 (ish), then people from the village had to go to Burton, and i fell sure the post office moved into Swift's butchers shop over the road, and last time i passed that shop was empty !.

Re: Burton post office Historybook #304111 25th Mar 2009 10:55am
Joined: Mar 2009 Posts: 77 neston nestonlad OP Member
OP nestonlad Member Joined: Mar 2009 Posts: 77 neston	Yes the butchers has now got planning permission to turn it into a house