Help needed! Old Post Office, City Square, when was the building built??? And what was it before? Info needed asap!

carl_1978 · Post by **carl_1978** » Mon 21 Apr, 2008 9:32 pm

Hi,Im trying to find out info on the old post office by wednesday as I need to complete an Architectural Analysis for this Thursday! I've done 90% but need to establish when the building was constructed and also evidence to prove this???Any info or help was be a life saver!!!Thanks guysCarl

Hirdstreet · Post by **Hirdstreet** » Mon 21 Apr, 2008 9:53 pm

If it's any help i can tell you that the post office in city square opened in 1896 and was built by H.Tanner and as far as i know it was built specifically for use as a post office,moving there from Park row,the old one on was demolished on Park Row in 1897.

Post by **cnosni** » Mon 21 Apr, 2008 9:56 pm

carl_1978 wrote: Hi,Im trying to find out info on the old post office by wednesday as I need to complete an Architectural Analysis for this Thursday! I've done 90% but need to establish when the building was constructed and also evidence to prove this???Any info or help was be a life saver!!!Thanks guysCarl Opened April 1896,cost of £75,000 and designed by Henry Tanner-source Illustrated History of Leeds,authors Steven Burt and Kevin Grady.They state that their source is from Kellys directory 1901,pg 21

carl_1978 · Post by **carl_1978** » Mon 21 Apr, 2008 11:21 pm

Hi thanks guys,I'd managed to find out it was constructed in 1896, 3 years after leeds became a city however there are reports of a cloth market which was either onsite or in the position of the post office. More confusingly, there are some scattered reports the old post office was used as an infirmary???Any light on this?thanksC

carl_1978 · Post by **carl_1978** » Mon 21 Apr, 2008 11:26 pm

Also, checking the news archives, I found:137. Post Offices: City Square - Article - YEP02/02/83Year of Publication : 1983Post Office at City Square, to close for five weeks for major renovations. Includes photograph. p.3/3-5Full Detail of Record : 2002103_85880679 hahhaha 1983?

Post by **chameleon** » Mon 21 Apr, 2008 11:40 pm

Scroll down through this, it talks of the old Post office, formerly the courts and the old Infirmry which was a different buildinghttp://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/leeds/local/TRA ... dTnkfWMjAt

simonm · Post by **simonm** » Mon 21 Apr, 2008 11:40 pm

carl_1978 wrote: there are some scattered reports the old post office was used as an infirmary???Any light on this?thanksC The old infirmary was behind the building we know as the PO in city sq. There was a cloth hall also behiond the PO. See the attached photo.red cross = POgreen cross = Old cloth hallBlue cross = old infirmaryObviously the old buildings are no longer standing, but the present buildings are on the site of old ones, with the exception of the PO!!

carl_1978 · Post by **carl_1978** » Tue 22 Apr, 2008 12:29 am

Thanks for the help guys, looks like were getting there now!So basically the building was new from 1986 then. As for Quebec and Infirmary Street, I presume these were developed at later stages as extensions to make the square?thanks so far guys, you've been a great help.Carl

sirjohn · Post by **sirjohn** » Tue 22 Apr, 2008 12:34 am

isn't there a very similar post office building in Bradford just down from the cathedral? germanic style? I think the post office bought a job lot of blueprints.....

sirjohn · Post by **sirjohn** » Tue 22 Apr, 2008 12:37 am

bradford had a post office building with a black prince statue in front on forster square, however THEIR black prince didn't have a horse.... tut tut http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/imag ... adford.htm