A PARTY is to be thrown to bid farewell to a popular sub-postmaster and mistress whose post office was axed in a recent round of closures.
Graham and Jean Smalley have operated the Warrender Park Road office for 11 and a half years, travelling daily from their home in Dunfermline. Their customers ran an enthusiastic campaign to try to prevent the branch being shut.
Hundreds attended
a public meeting to protest at the closure and 3000 signed a petition. Despite their efforts, the branch was axed and closed its doors for the last time on November 20.
Now the couple's grateful former customers are planning to celebrate their work at a reception at The German Church in Chalmers Crescent, Marchmont, at 2pm on December 13.
Susie Agnew, chairwoman of the Marchmont and Sciennes community council, said: "Over the 11 and a half years, they have made such a huge impact on the community with the incredible personal service that they have given, and many people, particularly the elderly, are already missing them hugely."
Warrender Park Road was one of 11 post offices earmarked for closure in the cuts announced in October. Two, at Calder Crossway and Elm Row, were spared the axe, but the Oxgangs Broadway branch was added to the closure list, and its customers are now campaigning to save it.
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