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RefNoKGILBERT/3504/LH/24
AltRefNo3504
TitleFolder of notes and cuttings: Wansford Post Office, Stage Coaches.
DescriptionIncludes copy of A. Cossons' article in Northants. Past and Present vol. 1 pt 3 on turnpike roads, other notes on Local Acts, Roman Roads, Wansford postmark, photograph of Kings Cliffe Post Office and mail cart.

Photocopies of 'The Turnpike Road of Northamptonshire with the Soke of Peterborough' by Arthur Cossons taken from 'Northamptonshire Past & Present Vol 1 part 3' Pages 248-46. Photograph of the Post Office, Kings Cliffe, showing Mr.Bailey (Postmaster) in the doorway with Wansford post bag to go on the mail horse cart, nd. Typed copy of the memories of Thomas Haseldine, taken from the Peterborough Advertiser, 1911. Typed extract from 'A History of British Postmarks' by J.H.Daniels, 1898. Typed extract from p281 of 'The Coaching Age' by S.Harrris regarding Wansford and Stilton. Typed extract from the manuscript of W.Upcott's Topographic Collection for Northants at the British Museum, which mentions acts for repairing the road leading to Wansford Bridge, 1747-1756. Typed extracts from 'Northamptonshire Notes and Queries' Vol I-III listing acts for repairing roads in Stamford, Stibbington and Wansford, dating 1749-1872. Also typed extract from the same showing a road acount from Broxholme to Burton via Wansford Turnpike, 1741. Bundle of handwritten notes regarding the post service and stage coaches in Wansford. Newspaper cuttings on the history of the postal service and Post-Masters in Wansford and Stamford, 1961-1978.
Datecirca 1961-1978
CreatorNameMr J. L. Gilbert
RepositoryHuntingdonshire Archives
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