Post Offices
From Lacey Green History
click Amenities for other amenities
The Post Office was established nationally in 1840.
The 1st Post Office in this parish. Lower Road, Loosley Row. 4 sub-postmasters. Click Jesse & Ruth Ward and Green Pastures for more about this property.
Started by Jesse Ward in 1841 in the family's grocery and carpentry shop.
The position was held in the same premises by ---Start 1841 Jesse Ward. Alfred Ward start 1881. Mary Ann Ward start 1906. Henry Allen, husband of Mary Ann Ward start 1914.
Jesse Ward the first sub-postmaster (click Jesse & Ruth Ward) was followed by Jesse's son --
Alfred Ward the second sub-postmaster (click Alfred & Betsy Ward) was followed in 1906 by Mary Ward, Alfred's daughter, --
Mary Ann Ward the third sub-postmistress from 1906 to 1914. click Mary Ann Allen, nee Ward for more about her life. After she married Henry Allen he became postmaster. (click Henry & Mary Ann Allen)
was followed when she married in 1913
Henry Allen became the fourth sub-postmaster in 1914 after he had married Mary Ann Ward in 1913. (click Henry & Mary Ann Allen)
Henry and Polly Allen gave up the Post Office in 1945. They had no children
The 2nd Post Offiice in this parish. Lower Road, Loosley Row
1945 – 1952 Harvey's Stores, Lower Road, Loosley Row. 1 postmaster
Arthur Harvey was the 5th sub-postmaster. click Emily & Arthur Harvey. He had married in 1930, to Emily Floyd, daughter of George & Annie Floyd. Annie had inherited a General Stores in Loosley Row, originally started by Henry Janes in 1864. They had taken over the business when George died, and at that time renamed it 'A W Harvey’. It wasn’t until 1945, when Henry Allen retired that Arthur took on the Post Office, at their own store. In 1952, 7 years later he retired from being suub post master.
The 3rd Post Office in this parish. Hillcroft, Loosley Hill, Loosley Row. 2 sub-postmasters
1952 – 1997 Hillcroft Dairy, Loosley Hill, Loosley Row. 1 postmaster, 1 postmistress. Click Mary Lawrence and Jack & Mrs Lawrence for their stories
1952 Jack Lawrence was the 6th Sub-Postmaster
In 1952 Jack Lawrence became the local Sub-Postmaster, taking over from Arthur Harvey of Harvey’s Stores, he gave up keeping cows and sold his milk round to Wren Davis of Prestwood, leaving him to concentrate on poultry and ‘barley-beef ‘calves.
Parish Magazine November 1955. Advertisement. J. Lawrence. Post Office and General Stores. Ice cream and confectionery. Specialities - Birds Eye Frozen Foods, Frenlite self-Raising Flour. Agent for Bees Ltd., Seeds, Trees, Shrubs, Etc. Phone Princes Risborough 537.
1981 Mary Laurence was the 7th Sub-Postmaster. click Mary Lawrence for mary's story
1997 – 2003 no Post Office.
2003 onwards. Lacey Green Village Hall. Part time. Run as a satellite post office of other villages.