stirling post office
84 Murray Place
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Architect
Walter Robertson Year 1895 Listed building status Grade B Archive sources Canmore ID 221505 Selected bibliographical references Edinburgh Evening News 23 May 1895, p. 4 (illustration) Evening Telegraph (Dundee) 24 May 1895, p. 2 (+ illustration) Glasgow Herald 25 May 1895, p. 9 History Opened: 24 May 1895 Closed Current use: Public house ("Morrisons Cold Beer Company") |
Building description
From: Evening Telegraph (Dundee), 24 May 1895, p. 4
To-day the new Post Office in Maxwell [sic] Place, Stirling, is to be opened at half-past three o'clock by Provost Kinross, who is to despatch the first letter. Thereafter, at the invitation of David A. Miller, Postmaster, and Mr William M'Pherson, contractor for the erection of the building, nearly hundred leading gentlemen will be entertained to cake and wine in the Station Hotel, the Provost in the chair. The Post Office has cost fully £8000. Eighteen months were allowed for its erection, and the contract has been fulfilled without mishap to life limb, or friction any kind, within the period specified. The building in style is not unlike the National Bank adjoining it, and adds to the architectural features of the burgh, already not inconsiderable. It is two storeys high, and has besides a sunk flat. In the latter are located the battery room, 30 feet 18 feet, a retiring room for the sorters, and the boiler for supplying the hot water which, led through pipes, heats the entire structure. The sunk flat has communication with the bank of the office, and with the Railway Station, and from it parcels and the bags of letters will be sent out for despatch by train, and in it they will be received and conveyed by a hoist to the sorting room on the first floor behind the public office. The sorting room is a commodious, well-lighted apartment, 43 feet by 36. Near it is the Postmaster's room, which, if anything, is rather small. The public office, the entrance to which is next top the National Bank, has plenty of space for the public and the officials. The counter is 34 feet long and facing the door there is chamber intended for the telephone in the event of the State's purchasing the rights of the National Telephone Company and working the telephone system. Telegrams will sent up to the telegraph instrument room overhead by a pneumatic tube, by means of which, too, telegrams will be sent down from the instrument room to the public office. The orifices of the letter and newspaper despatch box outside seem rather far removed from the level of the pavement; small message boys sent to post letters at it will not be very happy, because they will not be able to reach it. The second storey is occupied in greater part with the telegraph instrument room and retiring rooms for the officials. The instrument room is 21 feet by 33 feet. The principal instrument table is 27 feet long; there are two other instrument tables, each 10 feet long. These particulars show how extensive is the telegraph business done Stirling. The main officials' entrance to the building is on the side opposite the public entrance. The plans were furnished by the Board Works.
From: Evening Telegraph (Dundee), 24 May 1895, p. 4
To-day the new Post Office in Maxwell [sic] Place, Stirling, is to be opened at half-past three o'clock by Provost Kinross, who is to despatch the first letter. Thereafter, at the invitation of David A. Miller, Postmaster, and Mr William M'Pherson, contractor for the erection of the building, nearly hundred leading gentlemen will be entertained to cake and wine in the Station Hotel, the Provost in the chair. The Post Office has cost fully £8000. Eighteen months were allowed for its erection, and the contract has been fulfilled without mishap to life limb, or friction any kind, within the period specified. The building in style is not unlike the National Bank adjoining it, and adds to the architectural features of the burgh, already not inconsiderable. It is two storeys high, and has besides a sunk flat. In the latter are located the battery room, 30 feet 18 feet, a retiring room for the sorters, and the boiler for supplying the hot water which, led through pipes, heats the entire structure. The sunk flat has communication with the bank of the office, and with the Railway Station, and from it parcels and the bags of letters will be sent out for despatch by train, and in it they will be received and conveyed by a hoist to the sorting room on the first floor behind the public office. The sorting room is a commodious, well-lighted apartment, 43 feet by 36. Near it is the Postmaster's room, which, if anything, is rather small. The public office, the entrance to which is next top the National Bank, has plenty of space for the public and the officials. The counter is 34 feet long and facing the door there is chamber intended for the telephone in the event of the State's purchasing the rights of the National Telephone Company and working the telephone system. Telegrams will sent up to the telegraph instrument room overhead by a pneumatic tube, by means of which, too, telegrams will be sent down from the instrument room to the public office. The orifices of the letter and newspaper despatch box outside seem rather far removed from the level of the pavement; small message boys sent to post letters at it will not be very happy, because they will not be able to reach it. The second storey is occupied in greater part with the telegraph instrument room and retiring rooms for the officials. The instrument room is 21 feet by 33 feet. The principal instrument table is 27 feet long; there are two other instrument tables, each 10 feet long. These particulars show how extensive is the telegraph business done Stirling. The main officials' entrance to the building is on the side opposite the public entrance. The plans were furnished by the Board Works.
