{"id":111866,"date":"2017-11-28T16:18:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T16:18:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-08T11:14:37","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T11:14:37","slug":"letters-for-just-one-penny-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/28\/letters-for-just-one-penny-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters for Just One Penny"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\" itemprop=\"name\"><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-header\"> <\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-HKm_hItLAR8\/UYfLS5B3VNI\/AAAAAAAAEWI\/Rn2UdrAlXd4\/s1600\/images+%2842%29.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"208\" height=\"242\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images42-1.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-111867\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 18.0pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">An elderly lady recalls life before the First World War. She remembered that while in service in <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">London<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> her mother regularly sent her the Somerset Herald.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 18.0pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The postman took the Newspaper by bicycle from Halse in Somerset to Bishop Lydeard station two miles away, then it went by train to <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Taunton<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">, where it was sorted at the Station; letters then arrived at Paddington and were delivered the same day. If they were taken to <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Norwood<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">, it meant being sent from Paddington to <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Victoria<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">, then to Crystal Palace Station and the journey completed by a postman cycling out to them at about <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">9.00 p.m<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u2026.all for just one penny.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An elderly lady recalls life before the First World War. She remembered that while in service in London her mother regularly sent her the Somerset Herald.&nbsp; The postman took the Newspaper by bicycle from Halse in Somerset to Bishop Lydeard station two miles away, then it went by train to Taunton, where it was sorted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":111867,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111866"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}