Post-haste to closure: the post offices of Britain, restrained, elegant and grounded in neo-Georgian domesticity, are sorely missed when reduced to a tawdry logo outside a supermarket.(ARCHITECTURE)

Apollo | May 1, 2008| | Copyright

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Visit most British towns and cities and you are likely to find, somewhere central, a handsome neo-Georgian building, probably but not necessarily of red brick, which is elegant but restrained, having an air of authority and yet politely fitting in with the surrounding architecture (Fig. 2). These days it is likely to be a shop, bar or a restaurant, but once its purpose was proclaimed in noble Trajan capitals on its sign or in bronze on its symmetrical facade: POST OFFICE. The selling off of these official buildings is both a social and an ...

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