Post Office

Jane Earwaker, born in 1749, was the first to keep a grocer’s shop at Glenthorne House, in an extension known as the Gaite House. She was the first known postmistress in East Meon. In the 1840s, John Nathaniel Atkins continued the post office and also offered a grocery and a coal delivery business.
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Jane Earwaker, born in 1749, was the first to keep a grocer’s shop at Glenthorne House, in an extension known as the Gaite House. She was the first known postmistress in East Meon. In the 1840s, John Nathaniel Atkins continued the post office and also offered a grocery and a coal delivery business.
East Meon had a Post Office in the middle of the 19th Century, then based at Glenthorne House with John Nathaniel Atkins as the postmaster. It subsequently moved to the corner of Church Street and the High Street and remained for over a hundred years, before moving briefly to Riverside and it is currently a sub-post office operating from East Meon General Stores.
Creator
Ben
Date of creation
1992
Date of coverage
1992
Place
East Meon
Copyright
EMHG
License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC-BY-NC-ND)

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