MANWEB Shops and Offices Runcorn Old Town- High Street Showroom and also Roche House Office
Roche House Runcorn stamps
Roche House Runcorn stamps
Roche House Runcorn stamps
Roche House Runcorn stamps
Roche House Runcorn stamps
Stamps were added to receipts which made them legal, and were used in our offices and showrooms. The practice continued till 1970's and decimalisation started.
They were used as a form of tax and companies overprinted them to separate them from ordinary postage stamps.
Roche House Runcorn this selection of images shown above are with many thanks to Peter Blackmore at Runcorn & District Historical Society
Click on above image Electric Light and Power for more.
The Manweb Shop in Runcorn Old Town. "It was the local Depot when I knew it. The overhead cable you can see was taking the phone line over to the garage opposite & former depot". Thanks for info Doug
and a photo taken 16 April 2014 by Pete a local Historian who also took photo of former Mersey Power Depot opposite, now a garage.
photo taken 16 April 2014 by Pete a local Historian of former Mersey Power Depot - see above green door.
Thanks to Julie Clark for original photo and Peter for the extra photos and the interesting localised adverts.
Last advert is from 1961, so far unsure date of the others. Known as Roche House High Street when Mersey Power Co. and same name kept when Manweb.
Many thanks to Brian Thompson for these two latest photos of Roche House and former showrooms of MANWEB. Photos taken on 27 June 2017
The former garage was later used as a family Funeral Directors Offices Mears and Jackson and more recently they expanded to use the former MANWEB Showroom as their Head Office.
Also Brian has provided most of the photos on our site since 2014 of the progress of the new Runcorn Bridge near Fiddlers Ferry.
Click Link below to see them.