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Cookham Dean Post Office
(13
February 2009)
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Over the last few months there has been a
cloud hanging over Cookham Dean Post Office, as the owner is planning to ask
the Post Office to either find different premises or to close down in
Cookham Dean. Several alternative venues have been suggested, but none has
yet been found.
Pressure has been increased in that the
owner, who is in Australia, would like the Post Office to move as soon as
possible. On Thursday 12 February a Post Office representative, Stewart
Swabey, came to visit the post mistress, Satpal, and was astounded to find
that over thirty residents were also there.
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Pat
Woodbridge, chairman of the Parish Council talks to the Post Office
representative. |
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Elizabeth Runnacles from Hockett Lane
addressed everyone and introduced Stewart, the Post Office representative,
who then went on to explain the situation. He said that they would like to
find somewhere to have a Post Office rather than have a mobile unit. He said
that they could be housed in a small area and that the equipment could be
carried there by the Post Office worker rather than having them permanently
installed. He said that Village Halls, Pubs and church vestries have been
used around the country.
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Elizabeth
Runnacles introduces the Post Office representative
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The Post Office was packed and Satpal, the
Post Mistress, had even supplied tea and coffee with biscuits for
everyone.
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Everyone
gathers in the Post Office
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It was decided that a steering committee
should be set up to include some of the representatives of various
possible venues being on it. They would look at the possibility of various
places for the Post Office and see what was wanted by the residents.
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Elizabeth
Runnacles signs up Nicola Roberts, of the Cookham Dean Village Hall, as a
committee member. |
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There being no time like the present, the
committee gathered together in the Post Office for their first meeting.
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Committee
members, Borough Councillor, Robert Mandeville, Elizabeth Runnacles and
Alan Jay representing the owners of the Jolly Farmer. |
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The Maidenhead Advertiser were there in force
and everyone went outside for a photo shoot, with their cups of tea.
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The
Maidenhead Advertiser organise a photo shoot
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