Allendale Square - Circa 1938

Allendale Post Office in its 1880s-1960s location (now the Tea Rooms).  This location was the site of ‘The Green’ public house at the start of the 1800s.

Three generations of Fairlamb ran the Post Office for over a hundred years – William began in 1870. Llewellyn took it over in 1904 and William Redvers Fairlamb took over in 1953.

It moved to its present site in the 1960s and was run by Alan and Pat Blair until the 1990s.

A joiner’s shop was run by Edwin Fairlamb (William’s brother) which extended behind the site of our present Post Office.