Brentford had twice-daily postal deliveries from Westminster in 1962.
In 179 letters went to London from the Castle Inn & Excise Office at
8am in the morning and 3pm in the afternoon. In 1823 Old Brentford's
post office was 1 the grocer's shop run by Thomas Senols; New Brentford's
post office at 110 Brentford High Street in the premises of Philip Norbury,
bookseller and stationer (this was the shop patronised by Percy Bysshe.
Letters were despatched to London at 9am and 4pm and letters arrived
from London at 11 30am, 5 30pm and 9pm. By 1882, Brentford's main post
office was run from the Town Hall in Market Place, although the postmaster
complained to the Local Board that these premises were inadequate. A
separate post office building was put up in Market Place in 1886. This
was replaced in 1908 by a new post office in St Paul's Rd near the
corner with Half Acre. A Brand new post office building was opened at
207/8 High Street in 1960. In 1992 newscaster and local resident Anna
Ford, to serve the 20,000 addresses in the TW7 and TW8 postcodes areas,
opened a new delivery office for the Royal Mail in the London Rd. In
the same year Brentford's main post office moved across the road to
102 High Street in the premises of the Alliance Supermarket.
The telephone service began in the late 1870s. Initially it was a
service for subscribers only, becoming available to non-subscribers
in the 1880s when the idea of 'pay-by-call' was introduced 'Call
Officers' were set up mainly in shops which offered telephones as
an extra service for customers Kelly's Directory for 1910 list five
Telephone Call Officers in Brentford. Telephone kiosk appeared on
the streets at the beginning of the 20th century.
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