THE possibility that the Post Office could move its sorting office out of Great Malvern town centre has been much in the news lately.

It's fortuitous, then, that the 1935 edition of the Gazette, recently loaned to Malvern Memories by Diane Crews of Newland, contains an interesting piece about the construction of that same building.

The paper published an architect's elevation of the proposed structure, saying the designer was Mr H E Seccombe of the Office of Works. It noted that his design for a post office in Lamp-eter had recently been exhibited in the Royal Academy.

"The building is planned so as to bring the new public office to the centre of the front block, and to promote the efficiency of working, the telegraph instrument toom, the messengers' room, the accountants' quarters and the sorting office are all immediately accessible.

"The whole of these rooms will be on the same level and the sorting office is related to the garage and loading yard by means of a platform at a suitable level for loading and unloading mails," the paper reported.

"It is intended to fit the new public office and main rooms in a pleasing and dignified style, and the postal authorities are determined to spare no effort to make the office one of which Malvern can be justly proud."