This postcard is post dated 1904.
Thanks go to Reuben Holmes for the following information about this postcard:
Although The Crown Inn sign is prominent in the view I surmise that the gentleman seen is the postcard recipient Mr Williams the then Surfleet Postmaster, the comments on the reverse give indication that further postcards were being requested from the photographer who is the writer and named on the front of the card on the copy I have. I can remember the PO being in this location until recent times i.e 1970’s,
PS Of interest in the view too is the post Windmill which can be seen in the distance north of the village on the Boston Road.
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Post Windmill in the distance on Boston Road was demolished in 1912 so it is previous to 1912
Splendid. Look at the sign – ALFRED SMITH FINE ALES.
That’s the best picture of the post mill that I have ever seen. I can’t remember it but I know it was in that area. Much later, when Frank and Ruby Pell had a bungalow built on the opposite side of the road they called it Mill Holme.
My great great grandfather lived on the opposite side of the road from the post office and a bit further down( in the 1861census onwards) and he was a beer seller and a lime burner but I don’t know the years of those occupations. He lived in the first house after the churchyard so I think it might be the one with the white railings.
I believe that a vicar of Surfleet, Mr. Parry, lived in one of the houses further along.