Nostalgia - Sending letters from town’s past - Looking back into Sleaford Museum’s photo archives

In our ongoing look back into Sleaford Museum’s archives, this week’s pictures are of Sleaford Post Office.
By Andy Hubbert
Published 9th May 2020, 14:01 BST
A postcard view of Southgate and its post office from the 1960s. EMN-200105-135950001A postcard view of Southgate and its post office from the 1960s. EMN-200105-135950001
A postcard view of Southgate and its post office from the 1960s. EMN-200105-135950001

It started life on Northgate in the early 1900’s with the telegraph office and switchboard upstairs.

In April 1933, an elegant new post office opened in Southgate. We have a souvenir programme from the occasion. The switchboard moved downstairs in the Northgate building until it closed in 1970, due to automation. Southgate Post Office was a busy main branch with 10 or 12 sub-branches, even opening on Sundays for an hour-and-a-half. It lasted until the 1960’s when it was demolished, and the present utilitarian building was built to house it. This closed last year, leaving Sleaford with no main post office facility.

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A postcard of the monument area shows the post office on Southgate in the 1960’s.

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