BRIDLINGTON POST OFFICE
12-15 Quay Street
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Architect: Ministry of Works (job architect unknown) Year: 1952 Selected bibliographical references Yorkshire Post 8 Apr 1952, p. 2 History Opened: 8 Apr 1952 Built to replace the 1927 building (architect Albert Myers) destroyed by enemy action 18/19 August 1940 |
Building description
From Yorkshire Post 8 April 1952, p. 2
Bridlington's new head post office which is to be opened today by the Mayor of Bridlington, Councillor J. S. Wright, replaces the one destroyed in August, 1840 by a German bomb. Holiday visitors will find it one of the most modern in the North of England. It will have unburnable and unscratchable counters in the public office, that there will be no cigarette burns and marks from post office pens. There is shadowless lighting, and a sun roof adjoins the staff welfare room. The inside of the post office will not be completed in time for the opening, but in a month or two the sorting office and the post office will be under the same roof for the first time for 13 years. A new telephone exchange will bring 700 manual subscribers on to the automatic exchange and also allow for a further 700 lines. Before long Driffield trunk calls will controlled from Bridlington and village telephones In the district will made automatic. The new post office, which has taken three years to build, will be among the last public buildings be completed bearing the crown and the initials "G. R."
From Yorkshire Post 8 April 1952, p. 2
Bridlington's new head post office which is to be opened today by the Mayor of Bridlington, Councillor J. S. Wright, replaces the one destroyed in August, 1840 by a German bomb. Holiday visitors will find it one of the most modern in the North of England. It will have unburnable and unscratchable counters in the public office, that there will be no cigarette burns and marks from post office pens. There is shadowless lighting, and a sun roof adjoins the staff welfare room. The inside of the post office will not be completed in time for the opening, but in a month or two the sorting office and the post office will be under the same roof for the first time for 13 years. A new telephone exchange will bring 700 manual subscribers on to the automatic exchange and also allow for a further 700 lines. Before long Driffield trunk calls will controlled from Bridlington and village telephones In the district will made automatic. The new post office, which has taken three years to build, will be among the last public buildings be completed bearing the crown and the initials "G. R."
