Broad Town History
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Notes on who lived here :
According to the 1911 Kelly’s directory A Bathe was a Grocer who ran the PO. Swindon & District Directory Extract 1928 also names A Bathe as a bacon curer and Postmaster.
See also http://www.dancey.org.uk/genealogy/familygroup.php?familyID=F146&tree=wd1
Other notes on shop keepers either here or behind the village hall Old shop - further research required to place these people in their correct locations
Henry Tuck – shop keeper (Post Office Directory Extract 1855. The second burial in the Christ Church graveyard was Hannah Tuck on September 20th 1847. She was 61. Also see https://www.wikitree.com/genealogy/Tuck-Family-Tree-316
William Simmonds shopkeeper Post Office directory 1875
Julia Emma Telling shopkeeper (Kellys 1911) - given that Bathe was the PO then this is more likely to be behind the Village hall shop?
Francis Emma Price Kellys 1915
Mrs Telling – grocer in Swindon & District Directory Extract 1928
Old Post Office
 cliff cowtan picture of PO with narrativBy kind permission of the Cowtans |  PO |  post office site july 1992 |
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