PLYMOUTH POST OFFICE (1884-1941)
Westwell Street
Old postcard view
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Architect: Edward Rivers Year 1884 (1904 extension, architect William Oldrieve)(1933 interior remodelling, architect Henry Seccombe) Archive sources British Postal Museum and Archive : POST 91/262,118/222-224, CT01069 (photographs) National Archives: WORK 13/100 Selected bibliographical references Bristol Mercury 17 Nov 1882, p. 5 Builder 16 Aug 1902, p. 147 Building News 24 Nov 1882, p. 645 Hull Daily Mail 18 May 1933, p. 11 Western Daily Press 17 Nov 1882, p. 3 Western Figaro Supplement 5 Dec 1884 Western Morning News 29 Jul 1903; 22 Apr 1933, p. 5; 13 May 1933, p. 5; 17 May 1933, p. 5; 18 May 1933, p. 6 Western Times 13 May 1933, p. 5 History Foundation stone laid: 16 Nov 1882 Opened after remodelling: 17 May 1933 Destroyed by bombing: 20/21 Mar 1941 |
Building description
From: Western Morning News 17 May 1933, p. 5
The new Post Office Westwell Street, Plymouth, is. furnished and decorated in Gothic style, order to harmonize with the atmosphere of Guildhall-square, but it exemplifies, nevertheless, the most up-to-date Post Office practice. One of its most prominent features is a coloured map illustrating air mail routes all parts the world. The new building is not the first ambitious architectural undertaking behalf of the Post Office Plymouth ... premises were built in Whimple-street 1847-8 by a company. which let them the Post Office. They cost £3,000, and were designed in the style of the temple of Vesta, at Tivoli, Italy. A post office designed after the same model was opened in Devonport. The present site of the Post Office was bought in 1881 ...
From: Western Morning News 17 May 1933, p. 5
The new Post Office Westwell Street, Plymouth, is. furnished and decorated in Gothic style, order to harmonize with the atmosphere of Guildhall-square, but it exemplifies, nevertheless, the most up-to-date Post Office practice. One of its most prominent features is a coloured map illustrating air mail routes all parts the world. The new building is not the first ambitious architectural undertaking behalf of the Post Office Plymouth ... premises were built in Whimple-street 1847-8 by a company. which let them the Post Office. They cost £3,000, and were designed in the style of the temple of Vesta, at Tivoli, Italy. A post office designed after the same model was opened in Devonport. The present site of the Post Office was bought in 1881 ...
