Viva Lewes Issue #114 March 2016

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icks and mortar Lewes Post Office Under threat “People are in total shock,” says Nicky Bryant. “We live in the county town of East Sussex, and to push our Post Office into maybe the back of Smiths - or Waitrose has been mentioned - it’s really not acceptable.” The Post Office are indeed thinking about a franchise arrangement in Lewes (ie, moving it inside a shop) but were reluctant to give me any interesting details or good quotes at this early stage. Instead I was told about the ‘wide range of detailed factors’ they had to think about, in trying to ‘provide future sustainability for our branches,’ and that – this appeared to be their key point - ‘we cannot look to the taxpayer to subsidise Crown branches that lose money’. Bryant, seemingly an accidental activist, read about the proposal in the Argus, and hadn’t intended to get so involved, but “these things snowball”. She calls 65 High Street “a stunning building”, and mentions its war-memorial plaque, the “invaluable” skills and knowledge of its staff, its community-and-business benefits, and intangible things “like the smell of a post office”. “To lose such a hub would be a real tragedy… it means a lot to the people of the town.” Currently Grade-II listed, the building is ‘basically the house built by Walter Brett of Lewes in 1736,’ according to Orchard and Smith’s History of the Post Office in Lewes. It was was a Quaker girls’ school in the early 1870s, with around six day pupils and 25 boarders. One of them later recalled the three teachers as being ‘utterly conscientious and kindly’, though, it seems, they ran a ‘rather Spartan’ regime, and addressed the students as ‘thee’ and ‘thou’. As well as academic subjects, the same student wrote, they occasionally had lessons in ‘deportment’ - ‘making bows and curtsies, edging sideways between crowded seats, handing a book gracefully, and even walking up and down stairs.’ At this point, Lewes’ post office was at 52 High Street. The relocation, 100m down the road, happened in 1876. It caused what Orchard and Smith described as ‘a storm’, involving a well-signed petition and an angry local-paper editorial: ‘The proposal is to deprive the town of a central and convenient post office it now possesses, and this without one reason… This great change is made without the slightest attempt to ascertain the feeling of the town upon the subject…. We trust that Lewes will not be allowed to be ridden over rough shod in this way.’ You can play your own game of similarities-anddifferences here, though with the modern-day situation, the Post Office are only at the lookingfor-franchise-partners stage, and have promised a six-week public consultation on any plan they come up with. Bryant isn’t greatly reassured by this, but does feel that it’s a winnable contest, if enough Lewesians really get involved. “It’s important that you don’t lie down and let these things happen without a fight.” There will be a procession from the Post Office to the Cliffe, on Sat 5th at 11am. Dress code: red. Steve Ramsey 95
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