« Reply #4 on: Saturday 02 February 08 16:05 GMT (UK) »
I think this must have been Old Post Office Lane - this Insurance map from the turn of the 20th century shows the Stationer's and Post Office at 119 Snargate Street, just a few yards from the Wesleyan Chapel.
Behind the Post Office, built into the lower part of the cliff, is a small row of cottages up a flight of steps. There is no obvious entrance from the street, so I can only assume they were approached via a passage-way through the terrace at the side of the shop. The Post Office is shown here on the earliest map, surveyed in the late 1850s, so would be contemporary with the period you are looking at.
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Bill
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McCann: Ireland
Morrow: Pennsylvania
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