BRADFORD-ON-AVON POST OFFICE
9 The Shambles
Architect: William Henry Stanley Year: c.1900 (1936 extension, architect Office of Works (job architect unknown) Archive sources Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre: G13/760/16 Selected bibliographical references Bath Chronicle 1 Feb 1900, p. 6 (plans approved) History Closed: 2013 Current use: Retail premises Despite the lack of documentary evidence it is not unreasonable to suggest that the extension to the building was designed by Henry Seccombe, the Office of Works staff member responsible for the design of a number of post offices and telephone exchanges in the West of England. Bradford-on-Avon is one of a handful of post offices to bear the Edward VIII cipher. |