Scrapbook

Containing newscuttings and photographs concerning Lewes postal service and staff, Mar 1906 - Oct 1963

Includes:

pl-2 cuttings concerning departure of A G Turner, Lewes postmaster, and his subsequent career, Mar 1906 - Mar 1919

p3-4 retirement of W R Owen, Lewes postmaster, with photograph, Jun 1919

p4 appointment of George Lewis as Lewes postmaster, Aug 1919

p6 two photographs of Lewes staff, including Misses Woolgar, Blagrove and Beck, 1920

pp7-8 Lewes Post Office war memorial, Aug 1920

p10 retirement of J A Neeves, assistant superintendent of Lewes Postal District, Nov 1922; photograph of Lewes Sorting Office, nd, c1920

p11 retirement of Miss Kate Wenban, Supervisor of Telegraphs, with photograph, Aug 1923

p12 presentation to Miss R M Baker, senior sorting clerk and telegraphist, with photograph, Jan 1924

p13 retirement of George Duffield, Lewes rural postman, Jan 1925; marriage of L W Pink and Miss E Hawkes, Lewes postal staff, with photograph, Jun 1927

p14 departure of Charles Butcher, assistant superintendent of Lewes Postal District, Jun 1929

p15 wedding of Philip Baker and Rhoda Maud Hendley, with photograph, Sep 1929; retirement of Percy Atkins, Assistant Inspector of Postmen, Lewes, with photograph, May 1932

p16 opening of reconstructed Lewes Post Office, with photograph, 1934

p17 retirement of G G Lewis, Lewes Postmaster, with photograph, Nov 1934

p18 presentation and welcome to new Lewes Postmaster, A F Clarke, Nov 1934; Golden Jubilee of F W Lusted, Glynde sub-postmaster, with photograph outside Post Office, Jan 1935

p19 retirement of Sidney Herbert Downey, Lewes postman, with photograph, Jan 1935

p21 inauguration of sixpenny telegram service at Lewes, with photographs showing Post Office and staff, 1935

p22 presentation to H E Blackman, sorting clerk and telegraphist with photograph showing him with P Campbell, L Tickner, R Gillett, S Sinnock, T Hulbert, H Blackman, A V Jones and G Fisher, Jul 1935; photographs of decorated Post Office vans in Uckfield Carnival, Sep 1935

p24 departures of Lewes staff Philip Baker and Thomas F Hulbert, Oct 1935 - Dec 1935

p26 memorial service to George V, and photograph of procession of Lewes postal staff in Station Street, Lewes, Jan 1936

p27 presentation to G V Field, retiring Assistant Postmaster, with photograph, Jan 1936; deaths of Frank David Pelling and G V Field, Jul 1936 - Feb 1938

p28 presentations to Miss R M Baker and S H Edwards, Aug 1936 and Nov 1936

p29 presentation of Imperial Service Medal to A D Cox, with photograph, Dec 1936; photograph of postal workers in Coronation Procession, Lewes, 9 May 1937

p30 retirement of Charles Frederick Parsons, Lewes postman, Aug 1937; retirement of G F Kemp, Lewes postman, Apr 1938

p31 retirement of A G Tipper, Seaford Postmaster, with photograph, May 1938

p32 retirement of A F Clarke, Lewes Postmaster, with photograph, 1939

p33 retirement of William Edward Baker, Lewes postman, Feb 1940

p35 death of Sergeant Frederick Jasper Smith, of the R A F, former postal worker, 1943; notice that Petty Officer Telegraphist George Albert Casselden, formal Lewes postal worker is missing in action, [see 3/57 below], 1944

p37 presentation of Imperial Service Medal to C H Newnham, retired Lewes postman, Mar 1946

p38 presentation to Ethel Florence Woolgar, Lewes Post Office worker, with photograph, Mar 1946

pp 40-41 Arts and crafts exhibitions of Lewes Postal District at old sorting office, Pinwell Road, Apr 1952 - Apr 1953

p41 retirement of W N Woodruff, with photographs, Jun 1953

p43 entries of Miss I Woolmer, Newhaven telephone exchange, in arts and crafts exhibition at Old Sorting Office, Pinwell Road, Lewes, Apr 1955

p44 retirement of Albert Victor Jones and John Leslie Hudson; appointment of David Hopkins as Lewes Postmaster; nd, c1955

p46 death of John G Cox, former Lewes postal worker and member of Brighton and County Harriers, Apr 1959; retirement of L W Pink, Lewes Assistant Postmaster, with photograph, May [1959]

p47 appointment of W L H Smith as Lewes Assistant Postmaster, Jul 1959; emigration of Clements family, South Chailey Post Office, Aug 1959

p48 Post Office vans stranded by sea in storms at Seaford, Dec 1959; death of John Leonard Hall, Lewes postman, May 1960

p49 Fixture list for cricket match at Baxter's sports ground, Lewes, Aug 1960

pp51-54 Lewes floods; includes photographs; Nov 1960

p55 death of William John Richards, Lewes postal worker, Feb 1961 - Mar 1961

p56 adoption of new counter service at Lewes, Sep 1961

p57 emigration of Eddie Unsted, Lewes postal worker, and his family, Dec 1962; death of Frederick Henry Wilkins, Jan 1963

p58 two newspaper photographs showing the frontage of Lewes Post Office; late 19th century and Oct 1963