North Shropshire residents who were dealt a blow when their village post office shut after at least 100 years in the community are battling to resurrect the service.
And Cheswardine’s village hall could be used to provide a temporary home for the postal service.
On Saturday villagers packed the post office to say an emotional goodbye to their postmaster John Williamson who decided to retire after 25 years.
A buyer for the business could not be found and the building will now be turned into houses leaving the village stripped of a vital service.
However, today parish council clerk and chairman of the Cheswardine Parish Hall committee Val Brown said they had been in talks with postal chiefs to save the service for the village.
She said the committee hoped a postmaster from another village could be drafted in to use the parish hall on a temporary basis to keep the service alive for residents.
Mrs Brown said: “We have had a meeting with the Post Office and there’s a chance we can get someone in to do a few hours in the parish hall. We are now just waiting to hear from the Post Office.
“The service would be run by a postmaster from another village and we would basically supply the hall and we would also have to put in a new phone line.
“We are trying to get someone for a couple of hours, twice a week, and this would be something positive for the community.”
Mr Williamson, 66, is one of only two postmasters to have served the village in the past 70 years and there has been a post office in the village’s High Street for at least a century.
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