Weare Giffard postman’s memories

As he recalled days when he had had to wade through floods to deliver the mail, Mr Albert Curis of 1 Downings Terrace, Weare Giffard, who retired on Friday as postman there, was able to look at a river Torridge reduced almost to a stream by the long dry spell and giving little indication of how rapidly it can rise, flooding meadows, roads and sometimes houses.

On Friday morning at 7 o’clock began his round as usual astride his bicycle. After delivering through the village he took the road to Gammaton, completed a circle and returning to Weare Giffard post office just after 12.30. ‘People told me I was as regular as a clock in my deliveries,’ Mr Curtis proudly claimed.

Gazette article 4 August 1961