Lines of Road, and chief Places ofDestination. | Letters can bePosted | Letters &c. can be registereduntil | ||||
Without extra charge, until | With one additional 1d. stamp, until | |||||
Shrewsbury, Birmingham, and London takingLetters for all parts of England, North and South Wales, Ireland,Scotland, and Foreign parts | P. | M. | P. | M. | P. | M. |
6 | 15 | 6 | 55 | 5 | 45 | |
Llanymynech, Llanfyllin, Llanrhaiadr, &Rural Post | A. | M. | A. | M. | P. | M. |
5 | 45 | 7 | 0 | 10 | 0 | |
DELIVERY.
Lines of Road, and chief Places from which Mails arereceived. | Delivery by Letter Carriers begins at | Delivery to callers begins at | ||
London, Birmingham, and Shrewsbury, bringingLetters from all parts of England, North and South Wales,Ireland, and Foreign parts | A. | M. | A. | M. |
8 | 0 | 8 | 0 | |
London, Crewe, Liverpool, Chester, Wrexham, &c. | P. | M. | P. | M. |
5 | 0 | 4 | 45 | |
Llanfyllin and Rural Post | 7 | 15 | 7 | 10 |
On Sundays there is only one Delivery by Letter Carriers (commencing at 8 a.m.), and Letters are delivered at the Window, from 8 until 10 a.m. only.
REGULATIONS.
Ordinary Business:—From the beginning of March to the end of October, this Office is, on Week-days, opened to the Public, for ordinary Business, at 7 a.m., and during the remaining months at half-past 7. It is always closed at 10 p.m. On Sunday the Office is open only from 8 till 10 a.m.; but the Letter Box remains open as on other days.
The inhabitants of Oswestry have now the privilege of receiving letters from London, both by the evening and morning mails. The new postal regulation, by which letters may be posted in London in the evening, after seven o’clock, and up to eight in the morning, is of great importance to tradesmen and others in Oswestry, as it enables them to reply to such letters on the evening on which they are delivered.
THE BANKS.
There are two Banks in the town. The Old Bank, under the firm of “Croxon, Jones, Longueville, and Co.,” is situated in Willow-Street, and has been established for upwards of seventy years. The original co-partners were Messrs. Gibbons, Croxon, and Sheppard. The present co-partners are Thomas Longueville Longueville, Esq., John Croxon, Esq., Richard Jones Croxon, Esq., and James Thomas Jones, Esq., who is also Acting Manager. Mr. Jones’s father (Mr. Charles Thomas Jones) likewise discharged the duties of Manager of this Bank for the long period of thirty-five years. In such capacity, also in that of Chief Magistrate, and as a warm friend to every useful institution in the borough, he earned the grateful esteem of his fellow-townsmen. This Bank issues £5 notes, payable here or in London: issue limited by law to £18,470. Circulation, on an average of the last five years, £10,180.—Draw on Masterman and Co., Nicholas Lane, London.
The North and South Wales Bank, also situated in Willow-Street, is a Branch to the Bank bearing that title, established April, 1836, in Liverpool. The Oswestry Branch was opened June, 1836. There are fifteen Branches of the North and South Wales Bank established in the Principality and the Borders. Manager:—Mr. F. Roberts, appointed September, 1845.—Draw on the London and Westminster Bank.