Post Office, Townsville, c1962

Post Office, Flinders Street, Townsville, c1962

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.

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• Category
  Street Scene
• Time period
  1960s
• Persistent identifier
  Item ID 436299
• Flickr URL
  Flickr - QSA
• Queensland State Archive series link
  Series ID 192, Photographic Black and White Negatives of Queensland Industry, Services, Views, People and Events