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No.1 Now the Post Office, shop and residence.
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The plaque on this building states the date as 1903. So I assume that was when the major amendments took place.
We can see from the earlier photo (pre-1903) that what is now the post office was then a single story lean-to in the gap on the corner of Castle street and Lime street, between the other buildings.
Photo from pre-1903
At the time that the current post office building was erected, it seems to have included major rebuilding of that end of the previous Castle street building. We can see from the old photo that there was previously a large chimney, which is no longer there, so I assume that end of the building was completely rebuilt with the now post office building adjoining it.
It would seem that the first building in Lime street was also demolished at that time, and became part of this new enlarged building.
Temperance hotel early 1900s
An early photo shows that the new building was initially used as a temperance hotel - the current premises are now licensed to sell alcohol - progress?
Photo from 1950s
The photo above shows that by the 1950s, the two small dormer windows had been added in the roof. This also shows the wall on the Castle street frontage was initially rendered, the render was later removed to expose the stone. This has left the brick quoins around the windows and door standing proud away from the stone; the original render would have been more or less flush with the brick faces.
The exposed stone now shows there is a marked difference in stone used, with a roughly diagonal join just to the left of the door (see photo at top of page). The older stone to the left was lighter in colour with the new a much richer dark brown colour. Some of the darker stones were also used in the panels below the windows, presumably when the new windows and lintels were installed.
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