Transcript of the entry for the Post Office, professions and trades
for THORP ARCH in Bulmer's Directory of 1890.
Post:
Postal address, Thorp Arch, Boston Spa, RS.O.
Post Office at John Westerman's. Letters arrive at 7 a.m. from Boston Spa, R.S.O., and from
Leeds at 5-30 p.m. Despatches at 10 a.m. to Boston Spa, R.S.O., and at 7-30 p.m. to Leeds.
The nearest G.P.O. is at Boston Spa, R.S.O. There is a Telegraph Office at Thorp Arch
Station.
Miscellany of trades
Blakey William, schoolmaster
French Thomas Hardy, M.A., principal (Preparatory School), Thorp Arch grange