Candle Cottage - Drapery & Grocer's Shop and Old Post Office
Candle Cottage - Directly opposite The Mount, the brown door indicates the entrance to what was once a Drapery & Grocers Shop and Post Office. Although the painted sign has considerably faded and is now almost invisible you can still just distinguish the significant place this building had in the life of the village. The shop-front type windows have sensitively been retained and do helpfully provide a little of the pleasing character of this property. The building to the right is the (now closed) Mount Tabor Methodist Chapel. The census of 1841 indicates the occupants of the Post Office thus:
Post Office Joseph WITHAM 40 Grocer
Charlotte WITHAM 35
Helena WITHAM 13
Edward WITHAM 10
Joseph WITHAM 8
Selina WITHAM 5
Mary WITHAM 1
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