RECONSTRUCTED POST OFFICE

Finished almost two months ahead of schedule, the reconstructed Post Office in Den Road, which has a completely new sorting office, was reopened on Monday morning. The main office has been completely redecorated and has a new ceiling. The whole work has cost just over £70,000.

The head postmaster at Torquay, Mr L Johnson, acknowledged the cooperation of the postal staff, and the acceptance, with good grace, of the conditions which had obtained in the use of premises in other parts of the town during reconstruction.

‘It has been said that the Post Office is part of the daily life of the community, and helps to the happiness of the people. The success of the undertaking on communal life depends on the way the Post Office does its job.’

THEY ALWAYS CHOSE TEIGNMOUTH

An elderly couple from Smethwick, near Birmingham, spent their honeymoon in Teignmouth 50 years ago, and except for the war period, have been coming for their holidays ever since, twice a year, for the last 20 years, staying at the Seacroft Hotel. Mr and Mrs.Percy Elcock, both aged 74, on Tuesday last week celebrated their golden wedding. On Thursday, they attended a civic reception at the chairman of the council’s parlour at Bitton House, where they signed the visitors’ book and were presented with a plaque bearing the town’s crest.

DRIVING BAN

A Dawlish man asked for a 10-year disqualification to be lifted so that he could more easily carry on with his business as a building contractor. He had served a twelve month sentence in prison, given in 1967, for causing death by dangerous driving.

In November, he had been driving an eight-wheel lorry down a one-in-ten hill into Teignmouth at 11.15pm on a Sunday night with five tons of bricks, carrying three passengers. The lorry hit the wall on one side of the road, then veered across to the other side where it demolished a lamp standard. The lorry was a write-off and one of the passengers was killed. Analysis of the driver’s blood sample showed an alcohol content of 205 milligrams in 100 millilitres of blood,

Judge A C Goodall said he had no hesitation in dismissing the appeal.

IN DAYS OF YORE

50 Years Ago: Teignmouth Post Friday, 16 June 1922. It was announced that over 100 parents at Teignmouth have refused to have their children’s teeth examined by the school doctor.

25 Years Ago: It was suggested at a Council meeting that the German prisoners of war camp at Lower Bitton should be laid out as a children’s playground.

WISE WORDS

Goodness is the only investment that never fails. A gentleman is one who expects much from himself but little from others. We live, not as we would, but as need drives us.

RIVIERA CINEMA

Blue Water, White Death; Fathom with Raquel Welch; Steptoe & Son with Wilfred Bramble and Harry H Corbett,