Wells: 115-year-old wording on the old post office
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Wells: 115-year-old wording on the old post office
Image: © Chris Downer Taken: 18 Feb 2013
Revealed after the post office here closed in 2008 and the signboards were removed, this is a close-up of the paintwork above the door of Image We know it is over 100 years old because Queen's Cross Post Office, which had opened here at 1 Priory Road on 1 February 1893, was replaced on 1 October 1897 by Broad Street Post Office, just behind us at 10 Broad Street. However, the Broad Street branch was also shortlived as it was again replaced by the office, on 1 December 1902, back in these premises whose doorway we are looking at now - only this time the branch was named Priory Road and remained such until its closure in the national cull of 2,500 offices in 2007-08. It closed on 8 July 2008.
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51.207178
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