Leicester Post Office, Jan 2015

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Landie_Man

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Wow. Just Wow.

This place is incredible; I could have spent a whole day in here and camped over! My God, why do they not build such luscious Post Offices anymore?!

This Art Deco Post Office in The Midlands in England opened in 1935 and was built from coarse grained De Lank Granite.

By 1954 this was the first post office in the UK to have a machine that informed package senders the postage to anywhere in the world.

The site closed its doors in November 2007 and has sat ever since. It costs the taxpayer £30,000 a year and was sold to the City Council for £1.4 Million ($2.12 Million) in 2008

There was talk about demolition to make way for student accommodation. I would be very sad if that happened.

Please excuse my awful, noisy photos.

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Sorry about the noise, will return soon!
 
I can tell you enjoyed this place! I must go see it this year, as I said I would last year. Nice photos and thanks for sharing
 
Great!

I saw a similar (not as big) town hall sometime back, the design and decoration of these places instantly give's the "official" governmental style environment. This is a great post office - plenty of room for queuing :)

Many thanks
 
I really hope it'd doesn't get demo'd. Can people keep an eye out for any consultation meetings? I'd vote against development
 
Beautiful place with lots of light flowing in... They don't make 'em like that anymore! Art Deco is definitely one of my favourite architectural styles!
 
Looks an amazing building! I hope it gets preserved in some form or another.
Cracking photos, thanks for sharing :)
 

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