Derelict London Post Offices

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" height=115 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="832" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP ROWSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 1 WIDTH="237"><div> <IMG SRC="2778c5a0.jpg" border=0 width="140" height="90" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP ROWSPAN=2><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="279333e0.jpg" border=0 width="307" height="62" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <A HREF="mailto:derelictlondon@yahoo.co.uk" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:derelictlondon@yahoo.co.uk"><U><IMG SRC="08950190.png" border=0 width="80" height="25" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A>   <A HREF="home_page.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Home Page"><U><IMG SRC="0aa50190.png" border=0 width="80" height="25" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A>  <A HREF="id74.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Derelict London Guestbook"><U><IMG SRC="08a50190.png" border=0 width="80" height="25" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP ROWSPAN=2 WIDTH="248"><div> <IMG SRC="2788c590.jpg" border=0 width="140" height="89" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=365 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000"> <bR> <div> DERELICT LONDON POST OFFICES</div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="c32c73e0.jpg" border=0 width="455" height="318" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>ISLINGTON</B></div> <bR> <div> Post Office Ltd says there are too many urban post offices competing for too little business.Subpostmasters aren’t making enough money and are shutting their shops. Post Office Ltd says that by closing some post offices the remaining ones in an area will be strengthened and will stay in business. In 2008, The Post Office begun a consultation on plans to close 169 of the capital's 850 post offices.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="fd4bb230.jpg" border=0 width="187" height="35" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="22b49f370.jpg" border=0 width="415" height="311" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>BROMLEY </B></div> <bR> <div> Although there are many post office users who are comfortable with online technology, there are clearly many others within society who are not, and transactions over the internet cannot completely replace the services available through post offices.</div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="fd4bb230.jpg" border=0 width="187" height="35" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="22b654040.jpg" border=0 width="340" height="260" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="22ba4c030.jpg" border=0 width="332" height="259" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="22b9cf050.jpg" border=0 width="207" height="261" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>WESTBOURNE GROVE - NOTTING HILL POST OFFICE </B></div> <bR> <div> Damon Albarn, Angela Rippon, Ruby Wax, Tilda Swinton, Helen Fielding, Harold Pinter and Tony Benn were among thousands of locals who signed a petition calling for this branch to remain open. But.. without success - it closed in 1985. A Post Office spokesman said: "There are simply not enough customers to sustain the number of branches in west London and if we took no action many would go broke and close anyway."</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="22be00580.jpg" border=0 width="256" height="88" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">   <IMG SRC="22bd4d580.jpg" border=0 width="77" height="88" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> People in the Street, by David Hockney. Copyright: David Hockney </div> <bR> <div> David Hockney and Michael Horovitz have produced a greetings card to raise awareness about the plight of the post office in Westbourne Grove. Hockney, who used the post office when he lived nearby in the 1960s, donated an ink and watercolour painting called People in the Street, which could be the corner where the</div> <div> post office is located. Horovitz has lived in the area for more than 40 years and was a regular user of the post office before its closure recently- despite a two-month campaign by local residents to keep it open. In the poetry greeting, which is topped by a broken heart, he accuses the Post Office of "ponceing on the cancer of commercialism" over the loss of "this flower'd Grove's crown jewel". "Here's barking at you, for dumping thus our prime community resource/With such base grovelling to Mammon's ruthless course," he writes. He fears the building will be sold off as luxury flats, "for the routine dross-market fate/Of yet another multisquillionscoop for real-estate/Sharks".</div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="fd4bb230.jpg" border=0 width="187" height="35" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="22c0e15f0.jpg" border=0 width="225" height="351" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">    </B></div> <div> <B>LONDON BRIDGE</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="fd4bb230.jpg" border=0 width="187" height="35" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="777" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 337 ><NOBR><div> <B><IMG SRC="22c26f1b0.jpg" border=0 width="367" height="283" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>CROUCH HILL</B></div> <bR> <bR> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <B><IMG SRC="22c4891b0.jpg" border=0 width="393" height="283" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>DAGENHAM</B></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 298 ><NOBR><div> <B><IMG SRC="22cc72040.jpg" border=0 width="370" height="260" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>SHOREDITCH</B></div> <bR> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <B><IMG SRC="22c785ff0.jpg" border=0 width="389" height="255" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>BROAD GREEN </B></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="fd4bb230.jpg" border=0 width="187" height="35" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="22c9db4d0.jpg" border=0 width="219" height="333" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>EAST ACTON </B>(courtesy Sheri Weintraub)</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="fd4bb230.jpg" border=0 width="187" height="35" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="22cb6a300.jpg" border=0 width="362" height="304" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> </B></div> <div> <B>BRIXTON</B></div> <bR> <div> still open but for how long?</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="fd4bb230.jpg" border=0 width="187" height="35" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="26394ffb0.jpg" border=0 width="335" height="251" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  <IMG SRC="263a40fc0.jpg" border=0 width="320" height="252" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="263bedfd0.jpg" border=0 width="237" height="253" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>   CHISWICK                                                                            NEW CROSS                                                                      SIDCUP</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="fd4bb230.jpg" border=0 width="187" height="35" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="2772e32f0.jpg" border=0 width="227" height="303" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>FOREST HILL</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.postwatch.co.uk" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.postwatch.co.uk"><U><B>www.postwatch.co.uk</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="793" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP ROWSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 65 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="id73.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Derelict London Book"><U><IMG SRC="09da3a60.jpg" border=0 width="163" height="166" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="393"><div> <A HREF="mailto:derelictlondon@yahoo.co.uk" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:derelictlondon@yahoo.co.uk"><U><IMG SRC="08950190.png" border=0 width="80" height="25" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A>     <A HREF="id74.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Derelict London Guestbook"><U><IMG SRC="08a50190.png" border=0 width="80" height="25" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <div> www.derelictlondon.com</div> <bR> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP ROWSPAN=2><NOBR><div> <A HREF="id73.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Derelict London Book"><U><IMG SRC="09da3a60.jpg" border=0 width="163" height="166" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <B>Want present day pics of your old haunts? </B></div> <div> <B>Researching your family tree and need location pics? </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Pictures taken to order - low cost - any job considered</B></div> <div> <B> (not just derelicts!). </B></div> <div> <B>Much cheaper than professional photographers</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Contact: Paul at derelictlondon.com</B></div> <bR> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>