The British Post Office Building
Notes and conventions
It has not always been possible to establish the opening and/or closing dates of the featured post offices entirely accurately.
The preference is to record the year of opening, or the year when they are first listed in the annual Post Office Guide: failing that the year(s) of construction.
Where neither the year of construction nor opening have not been definitively established, then a probable year has been suggested, prefaced by circa (c.), e.g. c.1933, or a possible year, prefaced by a single or several question marks, e.g. ?1934, depending on the level of uncertainty.
In some cases the annotation [KS] is appended to a date of opening or closure - this indicates that the information is derived from Ken Smith's county-by-county listings of post offices.
The annotation [POC] is appended to precise dates of opening or closure when the information has been derived from Post Office Circulars.
Both Ken Smith's listings and the Post Office Circulars are available for consultation in the Search Room of the British Postal Museum and Archive.
Text that appears in colour is hyperlinked, either to other pages on the site, or, more importantly, to sources of information elsewhere.
A word of caution: Information about post office buildings gleaned from hyperlinked sources has not been independently verified, nor has other information taken from traditional secondary sources.
The preference is to record the year of opening, or the year when they are first listed in the annual Post Office Guide: failing that the year(s) of construction.
Where neither the year of construction nor opening have not been definitively established, then a probable year has been suggested, prefaced by circa (c.), e.g. c.1933, or a possible year, prefaced by a single or several question marks, e.g. ?1934, depending on the level of uncertainty.
In some cases the annotation [KS] is appended to a date of opening or closure - this indicates that the information is derived from Ken Smith's county-by-county listings of post offices.
The annotation [POC] is appended to precise dates of opening or closure when the information has been derived from Post Office Circulars.
Both Ken Smith's listings and the Post Office Circulars are available for consultation in the Search Room of the British Postal Museum and Archive.
Text that appears in colour is hyperlinked, either to other pages on the site, or, more importantly, to sources of information elsewhere.
A word of caution: Information about post office buildings gleaned from hyperlinked sources has not been independently verified, nor has other information taken from traditional secondary sources.