Timeline

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Bristol (1746)
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London (1829)
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Hull (1843)
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Carlisle (1863)

1700-1869

? indicates a measure of uncertainty about the year of completed construction or of opening. It will be noted that on many occasions two or three different dates are given for the post office building completion years or years of opening in a particular town or city. This is because in the larger urban areas like Birmingham, Hull, Nottingham, and Sheffield, either the leasehold agreements or the increasing amount of business, for example, the adoption of the parcel post in 1883,  (as well public demand for "more commodious" and convenient premises") necessitated a move to different, usually larger sites, the majority of which from about 1865 were purpose-built buildings designed by the architects of the Office of Works. Extensions or additions to post office buildings are not included. 

Much of the information has been gleaned from contemporary local newspaper notices and reports: these do not always make it entirely clear whether a new post office was a new building or adaptation of existing premises.

17461819182218291830
  • Leamington Spa Post Office (Opened: 24 Feb 1830)​(Morning Post 4 Mar 1830, p. 4)
​1832
  • Norwich Post Office (Exchange Street)(Opened: 24 Jun 1832)(Bury and Norwich Post 23 May 1832, p. 3; ​Norfolk Chronicle 30 June 1832, p. 2)
​​1835
  • Sheffield Post Office ​(Sheffield Independent 13 Dec 1834, p. 1)
​18391840
  • Great Yarmouth Post Office (Norfolk Chronicle  and Norwich Gazette 26 Sep 1840, p. 6)
  • Manchester Post Office (Brown Street) (Opened: 7 Sep 1840)(Blackburn Standard 9 Sep 1840, p. 1; Bolton  Chronicle 12 Sep 1840, p. 4;
​          The Era 13 Sep 1840, p. 7; Manchester Times 8 Feb 1840, p. 3; Staffordshire Gazette and County Standard 19 Sep 1840, p. 1; 
​          Yorkshire Gazette 19 Sep 1840, p. 7
  • ?St Andrews Post Office 
  • York Post Office (Opened: 24 Aug 1840)(Leeds Intelligencer 29 Aug 1840, p. 5; Yorkshire Gazette 22 Feb 1840, p. 3; 6 Jun 1840, p. 6; 22 Aug 1840, p. 5
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  • Canterbury Post Office (Kentish Gazette 13 Sep 1842, p. 3)
  • Oxford Post Office
  • Ringwood Post Office (Opened: 6 Oct 1842) (​Salisbury and Winchester Journal 10 Oct 1842, p. 4)
​18431844
  • ​?Winchester Post Office
​18461847
  • Chelmsford Post Office (adjacent to Shire Hall)(Opened May 1847)(Chelmsford Chronicle 14 May 1847, p.  4)
  • ​Leicester Post Office 
  • ?Newport Post Office (Hereford Times 14 Aug 1847, p. 6)
  • Nottingham Post Office 
  • Leeds Post Office (Opened: 21 Jan 1847)(​Leeds Mercury 10 Jan 1846, p. 5)
  • Chelmsford Post Office (adjacent to ShireHall)(Opened May 1847)(Chelmsford Chronicle 14 May 1847, p.  4)
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  • Wolverhampton Post Office (Queen Street)(conversion of orphanage)(Staffordshire Advertiser 10 Sep 1853, p. 5)
​1854
  • Bath Post Office (2 York Buildings, George Street)
  • Preston Post Office (Lancaster Road)(Opened: 8 May 1854)(Blackburn Standard 13 Oct 1852, p. 3; Preston Chronicle 13 May 1854,  p. 4)
​1855
  • ​Ramsgate Post Office (Opened: 9 Jul 1855)(Canterbury Journal and Farmers' Gazette 14 Jul 1855, p. 3)
1857
  • ?Cardiff Post Office (Hereford Times and General Advertiser 27 Dec 1856, p. 9}
  • Glasgow Post Office (Opened: 5 Jan 1857)(Morning Post 7 Jan 1857, p. 7)
  • Ipswich Post Office (King Street)
  • ​London Chelsea Post Office (West Middlesex Advertiser and Family Journal 29 Aug 1857, p. 1)
  • Peterborough Post Office (converted front room of former Greyhound Inn)(Cambridge Independent Press 24 Oct 1857, p. 7}
  • Scarborough Post Office (Queen Street)(Hull Advertiser 1 Aug 1857, p. 3)
  • Sherborne Post Office (Sherborne Mercury 13 Jan 1857, p. 4)
​​1858​1859
  • Rugby Post Office (Opened: 13 Dec 1859)(Leicestershire Mercury 17 Dec 1859, p. 6)
  • Southampton Post Office (57 High Street)(Opened: 19 Sep 1859)(​Hampshire Advertiser 27 Aug 1859, p. 10; 24 Sep 1859, p. 5)
​Later 19th century (year not established)​1860
  • Berwick Post Office (Church Street)(Opened: 9 May 1860)(Berwick Journal 5 May 1860, p. 4)
  • Dover Post Office
  • Gosport  Post Office (Hampshire Telegraph 17 Nov 1860, p. 5)
  • Lincoln Post Office
  • ​Maryport Post Office (Cumberland Pacquet 28 Aug 1860, p. 6)
​1861
  • ​Burton-on-Trent Post Office (Staffordshire Advertiser 21 Dec 1861, p. 4)
  • ​London Western District Post Office (Vere Street)
  • Soham Post Office (High Street - next to the Red Lion)(Opened: Dec 1861)(Cambridge Chronicle and University Journal 28 Dec 1861, p. 8)
​1862
  • Barnstaple Post Office
  • Dundee Post Office (Dundee, Perth, and Cupar Advertiser 14 Feb 1860, p. 3)
  • Cheltenham Post Office
  • ​?Friockheim Post Office (​Montrose, Arbroath and Brechin Review 31 Jan 1862, p. 4
  • Leeds Post Office (Court House, Park Row)(Opened: 24 Mar 1862)(Leeds Times  1 Mar 1862, p. 5; 29 Mar 1862, p. 5)
  • ?Loughborough Post Office (Baxtergate)
  • Perth Post Office
  • Whitby Post Office (22 Baxtergate)(Opened: 1 Feb 1862)(​Whitby Gazette 23 Dec 1892, p. 8)
​1863
  • Carlisle Post Office 
  • Maidstone Post Office (Maidstone Telegraph 7 Mar 1863, p. 4}
  • Oswestry Post Office (Willow Street)(Wrexham Advertiser  13 Jun 1863, p. 8)
​1864
  • Cockermouth Post Office (Station Street)(Carlisle Journal 6 May 1864, p. 6; Whitehaven News 29 Oct 1863, p. 4; 12 May 1864, p. 6; 30 Jun 1864, p. 7 Jul 1864, p. 2)
  • Exeter Post Office
1865
  • Abingdon Post Office (Stert Street)(Reading Mercury 11 Mar 1865, p. 6)
  • Banff Post Office (Opened: 11 May 1865)(Banffshire Journal 16 May 1865, p. 5)
  • Dundee Post Office (Dundee, Perth, and Cupar Advertiser 14 Feb 1860, p. 3)
  • Guildford Post Office (Surrey Advertiser 21 Jan 1865, p. 2)
  • Harrogate Post Office
  • Maryport Post Office (Carlisle Journal 13 Jun 1865, p. 2)
  • Penrith Post Office (Crown Square)(Westmorland Gazette 4 Feb 1865, p. 4)
  • Poole Post Office (Dorset County Chronicle 27 Jul 1865)
  • Torquay Post Office (​Exeter and Plymouth Gazette 7 Jul 1865, p. 6)
  • Woking Post Office​
​1866​1867
  • Fort William Post Office (St Andrews Citizen 23 Jan 1867, p. 2)
  • Kendal Post Office (Whitehaven News 11 Jul 1867, p. 1)
  • Leicester Post Office
  • Pontefract Post Office (Leeds Mercury 2 Apr 1867)
  • Worcester Post Office (Worcestershire Chronicle 23 Mar 1867, p. 8)
​1868
  • Bolton Post Office
  • Bradford Post Office (conversion of Exchange Rooms)
  • Bristol Post Office
  • Canterbury Post Office (house conversion with extension)(King's Bridge/Lamb Lane)(Kentish Chronicle and Canterbury Weekly News 14 Dec 1867, p. 5; Maidstone and Kentish Journal 16 May 1868, p. 2)
  • ?Cardiff Post Office (St Mary St.)(Western Daily Press 28 Dec 1867, p. 2)
  • Falmouth Post Office
  • Golspie Post Office and Railway Station
  • Luton Post Office (King Street)(Bedfordshire Times and Independent 24 Nov 1868, p. 5)
  • Newbury Post Office (Berkshire Chronicle 4 Jul 1868, p. 8)
  • North Shields Post Office (Howard Street)(Opened: 1 Feb 1868)(Newcastle Daily Journal 30 Jan 1868, p. 2)
  • Nottingham Post Office
  • Saltaire Post Office (Bradford Observer 24 Sep 1868)
  • Weston-super-Mare Post Office (Taunton Courier, and Western Advertiser 22 Jul 1868, p. 3; Western Daily Press 19 Oct 1868, p. 2)
​1869
  • Chatham Post Office (Hamond Place)(Maidstone Telegraph 10 Jul 1869, p. 8)
  • Chippenham Post Office (Western Daily Press 27 Dec 1869)
  • ​Falmouth Post Office (Lake's Falmouth Packet 30 Oct 1869, p. 1)
  • Ilfracombe Post Office
  • Ipswich Post Office (Ipswich Journal 20 Feb 1869)
  • Kirkcaldy Post Office (Fife Herald 19 Aug 1869)
  • Lancaster Post Office (Preston Chronicle  27 Nov 1869, p. 7)
  • Stirling Post Office (Dundee Courier 14 May 1869, p. 2)
  • ​Walsall Post Office (The Bridge)(Opened: 25 Mar 1869)(​Staffordshire Advertiser 25 Mar 1869, p. 5)​​​