Leslie Bradley's General Store at Postville.
Description
- Media Type
- Image
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- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- Leslie Bradley took over the general store at Postville in 1925. He also took over as postmaster. The Trafalgar Post office was at the rear of the store. Irene Saunders tells us in the 2011 Summer Newsletter of the Trafalgar Township Historical Society, that her uncle Leslie's pay was not as much as the former postmaster because he lacked experience.
The store was the second house west of Trafalgar Road, then known as the 7th Line.
In the late 1940's, the highway department insisted the store sign was too big so it had to be replaced.
Some other information from the Bradley family: The previous owner's name was Carpenter. Leslie Bradley almost lost the store in the depression and the Carpenters tried to get it back, but he was able to borrow money from the McClary sisters to pay the mortgage and keep the store.
The building on the left was not separate from the store.
There was a veranda on the front of the house with a lattice for privacy.
You may also note the trellis for Mr. Bradley's climbing roses.
The left store window was on the hardware side; probably cans of paint.
The right side was for groceries; the picture shows the ends of the shelving of canned goods.
You may also note the post on the right store front is out of line, not straight up and down like the other ones. The story goes that in earlier times farmers would tie their horse to that post - and it was the horses that pulled it out of line.
- Notes
- Postville was also known as Post's Corners. It was at the intersection of Trafalgar Road and Dundas Street, Trafalgar Township.
- Inscriptions
- Bradley`s Hardware ; British Consols ; Groceries ; Soft Drinks ; Trafalgar Post Office
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Leslie Bradley
- Corporate Name(s)
- Bradley's
- Local identifier
- TTOIIMS0005
- Collection
- Trafalgar Township Historical Society
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.50011 Longitude: -79.78293
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- Recommended Citation
- Leslie Bradley's General Store at Postville
- Contact
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Trafalgar Township Historical Society Sponsor: Jeff Knoll, Local & Regional Councillor for Oakville Ward 5 – Town of Oakville/Regional Municipality of Halton
