Is your local Post Office listed? Should it be?
The Twentieth Century Society is compiling an inventory of purpose-built 20th Century Post Offices in England. Please can you help our campaign to get the best examples listed by sending us recent photographs of your local Post Office, or looking out for examples when you're travelling the country. These must be purpose-built, free standing buildings, (i.e. not retail units within a parade, or buildings converted from another use to a post office), and built between 1900 and 1980.
We need up to date photographs to illustrate our report which will be submitted to English Heritage. This will short-list 100 or so considered to be the best and most representative examples of their period and architectural genre. If you happen to know the date of the post office (most built between 1900 and 1960 had the date inscribed or in lettering on the façade) and any other information such as the architect, when it ceased to be a post office (if applicable) and what its current use is, this would also be gratefully received.
Want to know more about post offices? The article by Graham Thorne in our last magazine gives the context, and his review of Julian Osley's book "Built for Service: Post Office Architecture" gives more pointers. We are interested in "the archetypal, ...neat good mannered new-Georgian style" interwar examples as well as post war ones.
Please complete the attached form and email back to caseworker(at)c20society.org.uk with your images. In submitting images to us, you grant C20 Society permission to use them in its submission to English Heritage, on the website and in its other publications.