torquay post office
25-26 Fleet Street
Ellis states that the post office was built under the supervision of John Rutherford, architect to H.M. Office of Works; National Archives documentation (WORK 13/411) records that the architect was Edward Cropper
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Architect
Edward Cropper Year 1912 (1935 extension, architect Henry Seccombe) Listed building status Grade II Archive sources British Postal Museum and Archives POST 30/1662-1663A (site papers) National Archives WORK 13/411, 69/6 (photograph) Selected bibliographical references Building News 5 Nov 1909, p. 679 (text, plan)(+ illustration) Ellis, A, A Historical Survey of Torquay, 1930, p. 330 Oliver, Sidney The Post in Torquay 1793-1863 Typescript. 1963 Western Morning News 18 May 1933, p. 6 History Foundation stone of the extension was according to the inscription "LAID BY HIS MAJESTY'S POSTMASTER GENERAL THE RT HON SIR KINGSLEY WOOD MP ON THE 17TH MAY 1933" Closed Current use: Awaiting re-use (Apr 2012), extension in retail use ("Tesco Metro") |