20th August 1926 - Correspondence

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Correspondence

To the Editor, Buntingford Gazette

Dear Sir - 

In company with many other residents in the north end of the town I am wondering for how much longer we are to be deprived of the privilege of posting our letters without the necessity of taking them down to the head office?

It is to be hoped that the publicity given in your paper (for which I thank you in anticipation) will have the effect of waking up the authorities, whose dilatory methods are open to severe criticism.

Yours faithfully,

Frank White.

8th October 1926 - Not the electric light

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Not the electric light

To those townsmen and visitors who may think that the cables now being laid in the High Street are for the supply of electric light, it is pointed out that the cables are being laid for the Post Office authorities.

We understand that the telephone poles are now carrying their maximum amount of wires, and the new cables will connect up telephone subscribers to the Buntingford Post Office. 

It must be some years since the paving which commences at the top of Church Street was removed en masse, and it is a pity that during the excavations some of it was broken.

21st May 1926 - The Post Office

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The Post Office

The grateful thanks of the public are due to several ladies and gentlemen of the town and district who have assisted the postal authorities during the recent strike.

As there were no trains at all from Buntingford, Mr A.C. Bartlett had to make arrangements for the mails to be taken and fetched from Ware twice daily. There was a ready response to the call for assistance, and as a result an excellent service was maintained throughout the strike.

On some occasions there was a rush of business as the mail had to connect with the Ware despatch, but Mr Bartlett and his staff dealt with the despatches in a prompt and efficacious manner, with a result that little inconvenience was caused the public.

Those ladies and gentlemen who conveyed the mails to and from Buntingford were: Col. C.H.B. Heaton-Ellis, Mr H.C. Marshall, Mrs Stubbing, Rev. F.B. Philips, Mr C.H. Poulton Capt. H.H. Williams, Mr Hardy, Miss Lushington, Major Keeble, Mr J. Thwaites and Mr E. Mildren.