WORCESTER'S new Head Post Office in Foregate Street was completed and officially opened at this time exactly half-a-century.
The Journal of March 1953 reported: "It is the first new head post office to be opened in the GPO's Midland Region since 1939. The building was opened by the Mayor of Worcester, Councillor W.F Holloway who unlocked the main door with a ceremonial key and to the sound of a fanfare blown by trumpeters of the Worcestershire Regiment.
"On its Foregate Street frontage, the building is finished in Portland stone with red facing bricks at the upper level. The interior is in a curved shape and is decorated in six colours. There are phone boxes inside and also in kiosks outside."
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