Willington Post Office & Past Village Shops

Willington Post Office

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Axe falls on 2,500 post offices

Around 2,500 post offices are to close under plans to put the network on a sustainable footing for the 'email age', the Government confirmed

No details of where the cuts will fall were given, but consultations will now be held to identify branches which will close. The National Pensioners Convention condemned the closures, pointing out that post offices offered a lifeline forms of older people and rural villages.

Don't let our post office be one of them Please USE IT

YOUR POST OFFICE - YOUR CHOICE

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The Post Office
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Willington Post Office & Stores

37 Bedford Road
Willington Bedfordshire MK44 3PP

Telephone:  01234  838240

Map location: click here
Aerial photograph: click here

Always Friendly, helpful staff.  Well-stocked shelves.  Wider range of products.  More choice of brands.  Reduced prices.
Special offers which beat competition.
Fresh local produce on our new Fruit and Vegetable Cart
Link cash machine.  Fully Air conditioning

One week’s newspaper & weekly magazines FREE
to all new delivery customers
More offers available.  Pick up a free Pricepoint leaflet for full details.

We’re investing to serve the community better,
And hope you like the results.

Shop Opening Hours
Monday – Friday   6.30am to 6.00pm
Saturday    7.00am to 6.00pm
Sunday   8.00am to 1.00pm

 
Willington Village Shops

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Mrs Sale outside the village shop c.1900s. The Sale family had run the shop since the 1870s, when Thomas Sale and his wife Sarah were in charge. Their son Joseph and his wife Mary Ann took over by 1894. Joseph died in December 1912 and his widow Mrs Mary Ann Sale took over.


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Mrs Mary Ann Offord ran the shop from c.1920 until the 1940s.


Another shop in the village c.1914 was the cycle hire and repair shop owned by William Stokes in Barford Road:


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Photographs courtesy of Willington Local History Group.