Head Post Office and Telephone Exchange, 124 Deansgate, Bolton

NEW POST OFFICE, BOLTON - The new head post office, Bolton, stands on a site of approximately 46,500 super feet. The principal front is to Deansgate. The ground floor contains public office, sorting office, and various smaller offices. The rear of the site is allotted to the Post Office engineers. The first floor contains the administration offices, the telephone-instrument room, and apparatus rooms, and on the upper floor are the telephone-switch room, staff dining-room, kitchen, etc. The main facade to Deansgate is of a Renaissance character, built in Darley Dale stone from the Stancliff quarries. The contractors were Messrs. Smith & Sons (Burnley), Ltd., Burnley, and the Mr. Chas. P. Wilkinson, of H.M. Office of Works. [The Architect and Contract Reporter 4 January 1918 page 3 with illustrations]