Once a community's size and importance could be gauged from its post office. The post office, especially in the 19th century, reflected the growth and prosperity of its locality. The boom in post office building was from the mid-1860s to the early 1890s. Invariably a post office was built in a prime location, frequently on a street corner.This book provides a cross section of the various styles of post offices built in city, suburb and country town, and who the post offices serve around Australia. Softback book of 83 pages, with numerous black and white photos; post offices are described alphabetically by town.surrey hills post office, post offices, official buildings, architectural styles, (mr) marc fiddian

History of Post Offices Greater Bendigo area / information on Bendigo Post Offices & agenda for Bendigo Post Office centenary 30.9.1987 11 pagesorganisation, government, official

Black and White Photo/Drawing of the Sandhurst Post and Telegraph Offices - Pall Mall, the tower clock shows the time as 12:20pm, Markings read 'Sandhurst Post & Telegraph Offices'. Two horse carriages 15 people walking on the road.buildings, post office, sandhurst post and telegraph offices, sandhurst post office, sandhurst telegraph office, sandhurst post & telegraph offices, sandhurst, post office, pall mall

Document. Post offices of the greater Bendigo area. Dates of opening and closures and re-named of some ,and of buildings.document, memo, post officers greater bendigo

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Yields information about the postal services in the Ballarat region.Pamphlet - 3 folds - printed on semi gloss paper, titled "Ballarat Post Offices since the gold discovery of 1851", outlining the history of the post offices in Ballarat, prepared for the Ballarat Historical Park Association (Sovereign Hill), 12/9/1972. Details the history of the postal services and deliveries with a background of the establishment of Victoria and Ballarat in particular, centred around the discovery of gold. Includes notes on the construction of the Ballarat post offices and their history. Has the Park Association logo on the rear.trams, tramways, post office, gold, sovereign hill

Post offices Montmorency Village in 1968Digital copy of black and white photographswere street montmorency, montmorency, montmorency post office

Railways Collection -Article 'Mail on the Rail Post Offices and Van Bags Loose 3 x A4 sheets. One page has the article and refers to the other pages - Attachments - Interesting items from NEWSRAIL April 1952 and August 1996; copy of TPO Postmarks from Bendigo-Apostal Perspective (C G Schmidt ); copy of letter refusing request for TPO on Inglewood line; Photo of inside a TPO on Melbourne-Sandhurst line (The Bendigonian c. 1890) - the latter is not included in this item number.document, post office, rail

Article in Nunawading Gazette. Australia Post reviewing the operation of Vermont and Blackburn South Post Offices due to huge losses. The review will determine what options exist to enable post offices to become profitable and remain open. Australia Post's north-east region manager, Ken Barret said that if a turnaround in profit could not be achieved at these post offices Australia Post would consider operating them as licensed post offices.post offices, vermont post office, blackburn south post office, barret, ken

Article in Nunawading Gazette. Mitcham and Blackburn Post Offices are among 30 post offices up for sale by Australia Post. The sale was conditional on Australia Post retaining tenancy of the buildings.post offices, mitcham post office, blackburn post office, australia post

Five copies of typed notes on Bendigo Post Offices. The first Post Office opened on the 1/7/1852. Also mentions descriptions of Post Offices, the postal rates to send a letter/parcel. There are also some facts, the number of bells, size of the clock face, hands and numerals. Also changing the name of Sandhurst to Bendigo.bendigo, buildings, post office, bendigo post offices, mr len bennett, city family hotel, pyke (pike), baby health centre, sandhurst post office, government survey office, queen elizabeth oval, sandhurst trustees coy, the annals of bendigo, messrs snowball and co, sandhurst public offices, mr percy everett, 'tall sooreys', sir henry brougham lock k. c. b., hon john nimmo m. l. a., j w harwood castlemaine, w lowden

Page 1 missing. Page 2 is a list of non-official post offices from 1949 - 1974 compiled by Derek N. Baker, Historian - Victoria. Australia Post.post offices, baker, derek n.

Article in Nunawading Gazette. Blackburn South Post Office to be sold and relocated to a nearby newsagency. Vermont Post Office will also be closed soon but its relocation is yet to be decided. The two post offices were losing $95,000 a year. No staff would be forced out of their jobs.post offices, blackburn south post office, caldwell, peter, quibell, keith, walters, terry, vermont post office

Post and Telegraph Offices. These front Raymond Street, and from the lofty tower a beautiful and extensive view is obtained of the town and surrounding district.Black and white photograph of the Post and Telegraph Office, typical of the Post Offices of the era, featuring a clock tower. Sale Victoriaarchitecture, postal services

Agenda for Annual General Meeting 26 July 1987 at Hunt Club Guest Speaker former Sunshine Post Master Mr Frank Curtain|Typed Letter 5 July 1977 To Senator R Withers Stop Demolition of old Sunshine Post Office|Typed Letter 26 November 1976 to Dr JF Cairns to transfer the old Post Office building to Sunshine City Council|Newspaper Article Western Suburbs Advertiser 15 March 1978 Post office building for sale|Newspaper Article 8 June 1988 Post Office to go for car park but council plan is under threat|Photocopy of photo of the Sunshine Post Office|Typed Notes 1 January 1982 Commemorative stamps of Tasmania|Typed Letter 16 November 1981 Commemorative stamps of the Gold Rush Era|Typed Letter 13 May 1981 Gold Rush Era stamps|The Australian Post Office A Brief History 1809 - 1975|Newspaper Article The WestSider March 2025 - Sunshine Post Office Then & Now Photographspost office

The post office opened at this location in 1912. It was demolished in 2000. Post office history in the area: Until 1883 when the railway came through to Surrey Hills, this was essentially a rural community of scattered farms. Land subdivisions soon occurred along the railway line and limited postal services followed soon after, although a ‘permanent’ home for the post office was two decades away. George Sim Junior is acknowledged as our first postmaster; he opened a post office on 1 October 1884 in his father’s general store at 619-621 Canterbury Road, a few doors down from the Surrey Hills Hotel on the corner of Union Road. Over the next 20 years, the Surrey Hills Post Office moved several times into temporary, shared accommodation – in 1889 into Woodhead’s Corner Store at 364 Canterbury Road; then in 1895 to No 376, Hansen’s Exchange Building, part of Hansen’s Terrace (demolished) and in 1901 to 109 Union Road, on the corner of Windsor Crescent. Following Federation in 1901, the new Commonwealth Government established the Postmaster-General's Department to provide postal services to the nation. Many of the post offices constructed in the following years reflected a growing sense of Australian pride and nationalism. It was 1914 when building commenced on the ‘purpose-built’ post office at 609 Canterbury Road, Surrey Hills. Described as “a polychromatic Federation Freestyle building”, it served as the local post office for nearly 85 years until sold by the Commonwealth Government in c1999, after which the post office moved to the current, less prominent site at 100 Union Road. For nearly 10 years under private ownership, the building was successfully adapted for use as the base for two businesses, Gargoyles and Dragons and later the Surrey Sculpture Studio, and fortuitously the historic integrity of the building was maintained. However although renovated in the 1990's, structurally sound and of historic significance, it was not protected under local or commonwealth heritage legislation and was demolished soon after sale. This is an early image of a demolished building which should have been protected. In 1991, when the City of Camberwell conducted a heritage study, (which still informs the basis of the City of Boroondara’s heritage guidelines for this part of the municipality,) the post office was owned by the Commonwealth Government. As such, it could not be considered for heritage listing by the local authorities. Some years later, the Commonwealth and Australia Post rather belatedly recognized not only that post offices have heritage and social value, but also that the architecture of post offices as community buildings is important. A heritage management scheme was developed for the buildings they own or control under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Act 1999. Unfortunately, the Surrey Hills Post Office had been sold and demolished before this was finally enacted in 2004. Black and white image, perhaps from a post card, of Surrey Hills post office at 609 Canterbury Road. The building is flanked by a picket fence. There is a woman, a dog and a man in front of the entrance. The man is in uniform - possibly a postal employee.post offices, canterbury road, businesses, surrey hills post office, surrey sculture studio, gargoyles and dragons

The Old Post Office Store was established in 1850 at 191-193 Main Street Bacchus Marsh. In 1863 Thomas Taubman was the house and store owner and storekeeper. In 1866 he opened a branch of the Savings Bank at these premises. In 1876, he left the district. He died in 1901 as the result of a train accident at Moreland.Post Offices are an essential service in any community particularly in the nineteenth century when mail services were the main means for personal and commercial communication over distances. This image is one of the earliest images of a post office in Bacchus Marsh and is therefore an important documentary record of early postal services in the Bacchus Marsh area.This image is of a photographic copy of an original photo. Shown is a double-fronted store and Post Office in two sections , with a group of six men standing at the front. The building appears to be of weatherboard, with shingled roofs. Built in different styles, the two buildings may date from different periods. The buildings are unified by a single verandah supported by seven pillars along the front of the store. A sign erected between two of the pillars reads T. Taubman. On the brickwork a sign reads POST OFFICE above a number of noticeboards. Various items can be seen at the front of the store. On the front: A hand-written note: "Bacchus Marsh Post Office Store 1850-1860 (?) from yellowed original by "P Robertson. B'Marsh" prior to restoration of original. businesses main street bacchus marsh, post offices, shops bacchus marsh, post offices bacchus marsh, thomas taubman bacchus marsh

The set of seven imperial weights were used in the Post Office in Wodonga. The first Post Office in Wodonga opened on the 6th June 1856, and a second Post Office was built in 1874 on the corner of Sydney Road which became High St. and South St. In 1878 there were three staff at the Wodonga Post Office, including the Postmaster/Telegraph Manager and two Office-Keepers/Messengers. The mail service in 1878 included delivery four times a day from the Railway Station to the Post Office in Wodonga, and to and from the Wodonga Post Office to Albury twice a day.The set of seven imperial weights has local and state significance as it was used in the Wodonga Post Office in North East Victoria before decimal currency was introduced in Australia in 1966. The weights also have national significance as examples of the equipment used in post offices in Australia pre 1966.Set of seven cast iron and lead weights with imperial measurements '4 oz, 8oz, 1 lb, 2 lb, 3 lb, 4 lb, and 7 lb' The exterior circular black painted cast iron encases the heavy inner grey lead component, which is visible from the underside. "4 oz.", "8 / oz.", 1 lb.", "1 lb.", "2 lb.", "3 lb.", 4 lb.", MERCURY / 7 LB." on the top of the weights in raised numbers and letters.wodonga post office, post office, victoria post offices, wodonga, north eastern victoria post offices, victorian mail service

2 blue canvas Australia Post bags with brass eyelets used mid 20th Century to deliver mail to householders in the City of Moorabbin . Small bag has Australia Post Stamped on it and the large bag has no markings but has white rope threaded through the brass eyeletsAustralia Post Canvas Bags donated by Judy Clark the daughter of George Reed who lived and worked in the City of Moorabbin in 20th century 2 Blue canvas bags with brass eyeletsa) AUSTRALIA POST OFFICE 869 No 5 b) no marking ; white rope australia post, post offices, mail, bentleigh, moorabbin, mckinnon, ormond, cheltenham, highett, early settlers, reed george

Photograph donated by Christ Northcott, San RemoColoured photograph of the San Remo Post Office - renovated. Identical photograph No. 181-02On back: "San Remo P.O. Renovated 8/2/1999"san remo post office c1999, chris northcott, post offices

In 2018 GHS members visited Turner's Bakery in Mernda for lunch and continued on to visit historic sites remaining in the Mernda area. This photograph shows the Mernda Post Office, formerly the Mernda General Store. It is sited in Schotters Road. Today the Post Office has been relocated to modern premises in Mernda Village Drive.Mernda is an area of rapid modern growth with a few remaining historic buildings dating from the 19th century.Digital copy of colour photographmernda, mernda historic sites, mernda post office, schotters road mernda, post offices, mernda general store

These scales were used in the post office which was located at Warrnambool Cheese & Butter Factory.Red Post Office wedge-shaped scales with rectangular base and spring-loaded top plate; white dial face marked to 16oz by 1/8 oz increments. Marked Domestic Use Only. Manufacturer's details marked in gold on the front of the scales.No.63 (on base) POST OFFICE/Persinware/Made in Australiaallansford, warrnambool cheese & butter factory, wcb, post offices, scales, weighing instruments