The Chorlton Post Office ……. a café with the same name ….. that box ...... and a new place to eat

So, the title pretty much has the lot, and will stir memories of happy meals and a controversy.

The Post Box Cafe, 2014

There will be plenty of people who remember when the new Post Office was opened in the early 1960s. 

It stands on the site of residential properties which had been destroyed in the Manchester Blitz, and is located close to our main Post Office which had been damaged during the same attack.

It was and still is an unprepossessing building which can best be described as a box.

But in 2013 part of it was converted into the Post Box Café which attracted a lot of customers, as well as supporters, hosted some exciting events both outside and inside, and was the venue for some of my history talks.

One of the History Talks, 2014

That box, 2018

After its closure there was that controversial structure which was added to the forecourt, and was eventually demolished.

It presence generated a lot of debate, with few if any supporters.

And despite an instruction to take it down it lingered on for quite a while.

And now we have gone full circle with a new eating place, which goes under the name of “The Post Box Café & Shawarma”.

The rest as they say is history.  The Facebook site for the original Post Box Café  still exists and all my stories about the old and new Chorlton Post Office can be read by following the link.*

The Post Box Café & Shawarma”, 2022

Location; Chorlton

Pictures; “The Post Box Café & Shawarma”, 2022 from the collection of Andrew Simpson, the box, 2018, courtesy of Andy Robertson, and Peter Topping’s painting of the Post Office and the Chorlton Post Box Café, 2014

Paintings; © 2014 Peter Topping, Paintings from Pictures, www.paintingsfrompictures.co.uk

*Chorlton Post Office, https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.com/search/label/Chorlton%20Post%20Office