whitby post office
22 Baxtergate
Architect
Henry Tanner Year 1898 Archive sources National Archives WORK 69/6 (photograph) Selected bibliographical references Whitby Gazette 31 Dec 1897, p. 4; 18 March 1898, p. 4 History Built on the same site as the previous office (1862) Opened: Mar 1898 Closed Current use: Retail space ("Yorkshire Trading Company") |
From: Whitby Gazette 31 December 1897, p 4.
... the number of public buildings that are fast approaching completion, one of the most noticeable is the new Post Office in Baxtergate. The new Post Office, as our readers are aware, occupies a very central and desirable situation in Baxtergate, and stands where the old Post Office did before it was demolished. A better site, indeed, could not have been found. The new edifice is of stone, and has a noble elevation, with superior workmanship, and altogether will have a very handsome and pleasing appearance. It has a frontage to both Baxtergate and the Quay-side, and when completed few provincial towns of the size of Whitby will be better supplied as regards Post Office accommodation than we shall be in our old town. Our older readers cannot fail to be struck with the marvellous contrast between the new Post Office, with its splendid frontage, convenient position, and ample spaces, with the small, contracted, and Lilliputian Post Office in the Old Market Place, which satisfied our forefathers a generation ago. Just about this season of the year, at the close of 1861 and the beginning of 1862, there was a great public clamour and demonstration raised by many of the inhabitants against the removal of the Post Office from the Old Market Place to the present site in Baxtergate. The clamour of that day was over-ruled — happily, as it turned out for the public weal — and the result is most satisfactory for the best interests of the public service, as well as for the comfort and convenience of the Post Office staff and the efficient working of the business. It is instructive to reflect on the great developments and extensions which have taken place in the work of the Post Office during the thirty-five years which have elapsed since the change have alluded to took place.
... the number of public buildings that are fast approaching completion, one of the most noticeable is the new Post Office in Baxtergate. The new Post Office, as our readers are aware, occupies a very central and desirable situation in Baxtergate, and stands where the old Post Office did before it was demolished. A better site, indeed, could not have been found. The new edifice is of stone, and has a noble elevation, with superior workmanship, and altogether will have a very handsome and pleasing appearance. It has a frontage to both Baxtergate and the Quay-side, and when completed few provincial towns of the size of Whitby will be better supplied as regards Post Office accommodation than we shall be in our old town. Our older readers cannot fail to be struck with the marvellous contrast between the new Post Office, with its splendid frontage, convenient position, and ample spaces, with the small, contracted, and Lilliputian Post Office in the Old Market Place, which satisfied our forefathers a generation ago. Just about this season of the year, at the close of 1861 and the beginning of 1862, there was a great public clamour and demonstration raised by many of the inhabitants against the removal of the Post Office from the Old Market Place to the present site in Baxtergate. The clamour of that day was over-ruled — happily, as it turned out for the public weal — and the result is most satisfactory for the best interests of the public service, as well as for the comfort and convenience of the Post Office staff and the efficient working of the business. It is instructive to reflect on the great developments and extensions which have taken place in the work of the Post Office during the thirty-five years which have elapsed since the change have alluded to took place.