TOODYAY POST OFFICE & TOWN HALL
1977Colour photo of Post Office & front façade of Town Hall.
Both are red brick [Flemish bond] Post office is 2-storreyed building with sashed windows to side front of building.
The entrance has 2 arches with 4 steps each.
Beneath leading to a small alcoved entrance.
To left of photo is a glass /metal phone box & 3 cars parked in street & one to right of Town Hall (Toodyay Memorial Hall).
White painted wooden fence is situated between the two buildings.
Roof is painted white and there are two chimneys.
The Toodyay Post Office and residence is located in Toodyay, Western Australia on the corner of Stirling Terrace and Duke Street North.
It was designed by colonial architect George Temple-Poole and was part of a scheme by the Public Works Department. Over 100 post offices were built to a standard design during the late 1890s; the Toodyay Post Office is one of the few remaining examples.
Postal services began in Toodyay in 1842.
As at 2019, the building is no longer used for postal services which are provided from a new location on Piesse Street.
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Identical to 2001.1449 held in the Shire of Toodyay collection, which is a copy of this photograph.
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Nearest geotagged records:
- TIDY TOWN ACTIVITIES (0.01km away)
- CELEBRATION OF WA'S 150TH ANNIVERSARY (0.01km away)
- NEWCASTLE BALL 1983 IN THE TOODYAY MEMORIAL HALL (0.01km away)
- TELEPHONE EXCHANGE & POST OFFICE (0.01km away)
- TOODYAY TELEPHONE EXCHANGE AND TOODYAY POST OFFICE (0.01km away)
- VICTORIA HOTEL, TOODYAY 1920/30 (0.01km away)
- DRESS REHEARSAL MOONDYNE FESTIVAL (0.02km away)
- TOODYAY POST OFFICE (0.02km away)
- SERIES OF PHOTO PROOFS FOR BACK TO TOODYAY SCHOOLS REUNION 1979 (0.02km away)
- SERIES OF PHOTO PROOFS FOR BACK TO TOODYAY SCHOOLS REUNION 1979 (0.02km away)
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