BARROW-IN-FURNESS POST OFFICE (1891)
Michaelson Road
Architect: Henry Tanner
Year: 1890 (c.1905 extension, architect William Oldrieve) Listed building status: Grade II Archive sources National Archives: WORK 13/146; 69/6 (photograph)(extension) Selected bibliographical references Lancashire Evening Post 16 Dec 1890, p. 2; 18 Dec 1890, p. 2 History Opened: 15 Dec 1890 Closed: ?c.1932 Current use: Office accommodation Building description From: Lancashire Evening Post 16 December 1890, p. 2 The new General Post Office at Barrow, which has been erected at the junction of Duke-street and the High Level Bridge, at a cost of about £3,600, has been opened for business. The new premises are very commodious and much more centrally siiuated than the old office. It is built of local brick, with dressings of St. Bees sandstone. The contractors were the Exors. of the late W. Gradwell, Barrow From: Lancashire Evening Post 18 December 1890, p. 2 The new post office Barrow, which was opened on Monday is by no means a handsome building from architectural point of view, and the general opinion is that such a splendid site should have had erected on it a much more pretentious-looking building. However, the Government put it there, and when the red tape fiend makes up his mind who shall declare against him ? Stiil the accommodation is vastly superior to that which was provided in the old premises, and the officials must welcome as a great relief their removal from the old ill-ventilated premises. |