The Post Office - a history
This description was compiled by members of Mickleton Women’s Institute:
N side of High Street, opposite King’s Arms car park.
?Victorian. Brick, chequerboard. Roof, slate. 2 gabled dormers, windows across eaves line, on on LHS below eaves line. 3 – and 2 – storey. Sash windows above shop bays.
Original date uncertain because it is described in the Tithe Award 1837 as cottage and garden exempt from tithes. In account books for 1850’s Alonzo George Cox, who had a tailor’s and general shop there, has a note in his fine copper plate of the number of bricks delivered to him on several occasions, bricks of two different batches, and it therefore seems that he may have done some additional building or re-facing to an older building.
There seems to have been little new building in Mickleton after the early 1850’s, (when the influx of railway workers building the Tunnel for the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway must have brought some little prosperity to the shopkeepers), until much later in the century when market gardening began. Farming suffered some lean years and times were hard. One of those who left the village to seek work in Birmingham, prospered and returned to build the substantial house next door – Elder Villa.
The building ceased to be a post office in 2020.
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UnknownDate of creation
1975Place
Mickleton, High StreetCopyright
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