1900 – Selected Design for Post Office, Dorking, Surrey
Architect: William Shearburn
Unbuilt design for post office and municipal buildings by local architect William Shearburn. Published in The Building News, October 12, 1900. A different, more simpler building by the same architect was constructed.
https://www.archiseek.com/1900-selected-design-for-post-office-dorking-surrey/
#ArchitectureOfSurrey #1900 #Dorking #PostOffices #Surrey #UnbuiltSurrey #WilliamShearburn
1895 – Post Office, Anne Street, Wexford
Architect: Board of Public Works
Date stone 1894, but opened in 1895. Finished with brick with moulded brick decoration and terracotta date stone now minus it's Queen Victoria cipher.
https://www.archiseek.com/1895-post-office-anne-street-wexford/
#ArchitectureOfWexford #1895 #ArchitectureOfWexford #BoardOfPublicWorksOfficeOfPublicWorks #PostOffices
1901 – Post Office, Westport, Co. Mayo
Architect: J. Howard Pentland, Board of Public Works
Domestically scaled post office - the large semi-circular windows of the public office and the rock faced limestone are particularly attractive aspects of the design.
https://www.archiseek.com/1901-post-office-westport-co-mayo/
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Upper Hutt Post Office. From the series: Notes on the country I live in
#UpperHuttPostOffice #FGFSheppard #EKDinsdale #DistrictArchitect #GRAskin #MinistryofWorks #Osborne&CompanyLtd #moe_tahurangi #Kōtuia #Signs(Notices) #Postoffices #Crowds #Children #Women #silver #photographicgelatin #photographicpaper #workprints #gelatinsilverprints #UpperHutt #undefined
Upper Hutt Post Office. From the series: Notes on the country I live in
#UpperHuttPostOffice #UpperHut #NewZealand #Loener #Notes #theMinistryofWorks #moe_tahurangi #Kōtuia #Signs(Notices) #Postoffices #Crowds #Children #Women #silver #photographicgelatin #photographicpaper #workprints #gelatinsilverprints #Wellington #undefined
Jerusalem Post Office, Hiruharama (Jerusalem), Whanganui
#JerusalemPostOffice #Hiruharama #Jerusalem #Whanganui #Whanganui #moe_tahurangi #Kōtuia #Women #people #Indigenouspeoples #Postoffices #Smiling #Māori #silver #photographicgelatin #photographicpaper #gelatinsilverprints #worksofart #photography
1960 – Post Office, Newbridge, Co. Kildare
Architect: John B. Fox & J. O'Reilly, Office of Public Works
Until recently, this little post office and sorting centre was largely as illustrated, but in 2018, the windows were replaced with a lower level sill. The exterior features a medley of materia
https://www.archiseek.com/2024/1960-post-office-newbridge-co-kildare/
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1935 – Norwood Post Office, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Architect: Thomas W. Fuller
This two-storey brick building on Tache Avenue in the Norwood neighbourhood of Winnipeg was designed by Thomas W. Fuller (1865-1951), Chief Architect for the Department of Public Works in Ottawa, under the supervision of local architect George N
https://www.archiseek.com/2024/1935-norwood-post-office-winnipeg-manitoba/
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1907 – Post Office, Bandon, Co. Cork
Architect: J. Howard Pentland / Board of Public Works
Demolished, the stonework from around the main entrance has been reused on a building on the same site.
https://www.archiseek.com/2024/1907-post-office-bandon-co-cork/
#ArchitectureOfCork #LostBuildingsOfIreland #1907 #Bandon #BoardOfPublicWorks #CoCork #JHowardPentland #PostOffices
_The Evening Post_, 14 Feb 1924:
EASTBOURNE POST OFFICE
At a special meeting of the Eastbourne Borough Council, held last evening, a resolution was passed that the council impress upon the Postmaster-General the extreme necessity and urgency of erecting a new Post Office at #Eastbourne. It was agreed to write to the Minister at once, and also to the member for the district, Mr. T. M. Wilford, requesting them to have the matter expedited.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19240213.2.73
#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #PostOffices #Wellington
"After more than six decades of postal services, Alexandra Post Office has walked into history on 17 June 2023. The site it occupied will be part of a public housing project in the coming years."
https://remembersingapore.org/2023/06/18/alexandra-post-office-closure/
