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[Side 1] John and Dod reflect on changes at Post Office since starting work in 1904; anecdote about collecting Bamburgh Post, dark and 'teeming' [= raining heavily], lost oil lamp and cycled into 'muck midden' [= dung heap]; memories of former colleagues [Side 2] Dod tells anecdote about Yorkshire character called Metcalfe refusing to move from Post Office step and being run over by bus, scattering money all over Post Office, asking farmer's wife for pig's head, falling off horse when collecting post from Bamburgh in snow-storm; memories of former postmen Jack Hodges and Joe'the 'banana-man'; John and Dod reminisce about local hunt, describe one run from North Sunderland to Belford Quarry, one from Brown Rigg to Kyloe Wood near 'Cuddy's Cove' [= St Cuthert's Cave], recall huntsmen losing dogs in mist.
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