Townsend: shop and post office
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Townsend: shop and post office
Image: © Chris Downer Taken: 8 Jun 2008
The shop, incorporating post office, at Townsend is right in the centre of this community, alongside Image Townsend has long had a rough reputation, with bus company bosses withdrawing services through the estate in the evenings, and a letter bomb being posted in the postbox threatening postal services. However, reputations lasts longer than they deserve and Townsend has a thriving community centre and has had postal and bus services restored. The new postbox is a double-aperture one, which looks quite out of place here (see Image).
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Image Location
Latitude
50.752045
Longitude
-1.829135