The late Post Office premises being found too small to accommodate the rapidly increasing postal business at Mosbro’, a new and more convenient set of offices has just been built and opened on the Green. After repeated applications to the postal authorities for the opening of’ a telegraph office, without success, the Chesterfield Rural Sanitary Authority, the motion of Mr. Swallow, have decided to exercise their right in the matter, and the inhabitants will soon have this long-felt want remedied.
Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald
– Saturday 11 March 1893 © BNA
This thickly populated and thriving place has up to the present time been without a post-office, however, we are happy to learn that through the influence and exertions of J. Pope Cox. Esq., of the English Widows Fund and General Life Assurance Company, who was in Mosbro’ short time ago.
The post-office authorities have made an arrangement by which the post-master at Eckington, gets the letters at station, and consequently delivers them earlier and free of any extra charge throughout Mosbro’, besides which, he has to send to Mosbro’ every day (Sundays excepted) at half-past four for the letters to posted. And at a numerously attended meeting held at the Crown Inn, Mosbro’, the 1st of October. Charles Rotherham, Esq. in the chair, to determine the exact locality of the receiving-box, & c. A vote of thanks was unanimously passed to J. P. Cox, Esq., for the interest and trouble has taken in the matter.
It will be seen by advertisement in another column that a general meeting of the shareholders of the Clay Cross Waterworks Company will be held at the Public Hall, Clay Cross, on Monday, the 13th instant, at eleven o’clock in the afternoon, for the purpose of proceeding in the execution of the powers and works of the said company.
Sheffield Daily Telegraph 23 August 1923
