George & Margaret Crombie

Hallmark 2007. George Crombie Retires. Report by Tony Molesworth

I have known George for a long time, ever since I joined the Parish Council, when George was our Parish Clerk. It's worth noting that George was Parish Clerk at Great Hampden for 54 years, and 23 years at Lacey Green.

In 2003, the Community Planning Group managed to get a sub-post office set up in Lacey Green, for 2 days a week, as a satellite of the Great Hampden post office where George was the sub-postmaster. We didn't expect it to survive for long because of the quite impossible targets that had been set by the Post Office authorities.

However, survive it did.

The Planning Group started Lacey Green Stores in 2009, and the shop and post office worked together since that time. George was very happy to have someone else on the premises, and I know that our volunteers found George to be very pleasant company. The symbiosis was so good that George subsequently opened the post office on Tuesday morning as well as the two official opening days.

But all good things come to an end, and early in 2013 George decided that it was time to retire, and today is George's last official day.

George, we have collected for you a small leaving present that we hope you and Mrs. Crombie will enjoy. Thank you for all your support.