Pictured above, July 1973 is the Exchange Post Office on Bank Street, once considered as one of Bradford’s biggest and busiest city centre post offices.
The 12-counter post office was opened in 1940 by the Lord Mayor of Bradford, Alderman M F Titterington. Several years later, business was booming.
Annual sales included 40,000 telegrams, £60,000-worth of postage stamps and over 5,000 wireless licences.
By the end of 1945, another General Post Office was opened in Forster Square, in front of the Cathedral.
As technology progressed, and to reduce costs, Bradford eventually lost two of its main central post office counters, followed by the Exchange Post Office, which closed its doors in 2005, despite attempts to save the branch.
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