Townsville Post Office

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Name Townsville Post OfficeDescriptionCurrently the site of the Townsville Brewery the Post Office was constructed in 1886 at a cost of £17,235.

Dennis Kellcher submitted a tender and carried out extensions in 1888, while a clock tower was built by Henry L Davis & Co. Chimes were imported from England in 1889 and installed by 1891. As a result of severe bomb damage done to buildings in Darwin, the clocktower was dismantled in 1942 and the mechanism was stored away.

A greatly modified tower was built in 1963-64 by JE Allen & Co. of Townsville at a cost of £42,135.

The interior was also modernisation at this time. Because of its prominent location, the Post Office often became the scene of political rallies around a speaker on a soap box.

Information Provided by the Queensland Heritage Register
Geolocation^[1]Address252, Flinders Street, Townsville, 4810, Australia

Photograph

Flinders Street and Denham Street, Townsville, looking west, 1906

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Townsville Post Office