Lahore General Post Office
These are photographs of English commemoratives flex and British times Monument of Lahore General Post Office situated at the junction of Nabha road with the Mall Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. This magnificent Monument was constructed in 1904 and now gained the status of landmark of the city of Lahore. This Building is a mixture of Muslim, Hindu and European styles of architecture. The renovation work started in 1984 and continued for a number of years under the guidance and supervision of Renowned architect Mrs. Yasmeen Lari.
The Historic Information Written on the Commemorative flex was
Issued by the Director General Pakistan Post Office, Islamabad and reads as under :
'Lahore GPO
The magnificent building of General Post Office Lahore, lovingly called by Lahorites as the GPO, is ideally located at McLeod road and the Mall. It sits at a corner where the old Nabha road meets the Mall at a sharp angle. This gives this building a special shape of a triangle with an open base and a flattened top. But this is not the building where the General Post Office of Lahore was first housed in the middle of the 19th Century. In some of General books on Lahore, it is only mentioned that the first General Post Office was located in Anarkali near the central museum. But certainly, both the Anarkali and the Lahore Museum were then not at their present locations. The entire length from the Lohari gate to Chauburji was then called Anarkali and according to one official letter dated 22nd September 1860 the Lahore Museum comprises was then located somewhere in Anarkali. The tollinton market was constructed in 1864 to house the first Punjab Exhibition and acted as Museum premises for next 30 year finally to be shifted to present Building on Shahrah e Quaid-e-Azam in 1894. The original building of General Post Office was located south of the present Tollinton market (1864) and east of the Punjab public library (1882). Here in 1849, was constructed a barrack like building to house the ever first post office of Lahore. It was headed by Mr. W. T. Clifford, the first postmaster who assume his charge on 12th June 1849 and lived in a large Bungalow situated closed by in an extensive compound. The Postmaster of Lahore then used to work under the Postmaster General of the North Western Provinces with his headquarters at Agra. Although after 1849,some additions were made to the post office building but soon the Postmaster General felt that the accommodation hardly sufficient for the staff. Besides, he had certain reservations about the very site of Post Office. The Lahore Cantonment, then located in old Anarkali was being shifted to Mian Mir (Present day Lahore Cantonment) and several buildings in Anarkali were vacated. Mr. B. Riddal, the Postmaster General of the North Western Provinces, therefore wrote in March 1852 to the secretary, board of Administration Punjab, inviting his attention to his earlier letterof November 10th 1851 and requested him to allot one of the houses vacated by the Army officers in Anarkali for the use as post office. The request of the Postmaster General, however, could not be acceded and deferred. By October 1862, there was appointed a separate Postmaster General for Punjab. The Lahore GPO continued to work in its old location in Anarkali. By the year 1883, it had only three branch offices in Lahore, one each at railway Station, Moti Bazar and Lohari mandi. A horse-dak used to ply along the grand trunk road to Ferozepur and a male cart ran daily from Lahore to Mian Mir. Besides, there were pillar-post boxes cleared three times a day. No business was transacted on Sundays,New years days, Good Friday, the queen's birthday and Christmas day. As late as 1876 packages were received at the Lahore GPO in Anarkali for despatches by Government bullock train 24 stations from Peshawar to Ferozepur. This was the time when several of prestigious buildings which today are regarded as landmark of the city of Lah
These are photographs of English commemoratives flex and British times Monument of Lahore General Post Office situated at the junction of Nabha road with the Mall Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. This magnificent Monument was constructed in 1904 and now gained the status of landmark of the city of Lahore. This Building is a mixture of Muslim, Hindu and European styles of architecture. The renovation work started in 1984 and continued for a number of years under the guidance and supervision of Renowned architect Mrs. Yasmeen Lari.
The Historic Information Written on the Commemorative flex was
Issued by the Director General Pakistan Post Office, Islamabad and reads as under :
'Lahore GPO
The magnificent building of General Post Office Lahore, lovingly called by Lahorites as the GPO, is ideally located at McLeod road and the Mall. It sits at a corner where the old Nabha road meets the Mall at a sharp angle. This gives this building a special shape of a triangle with an open base and a flattened top. But this is not the building where the General Post Office of Lahore was first housed in the middle of the 19th Century. In some of General books on Lahore, it is only mentioned that the first General Post Office was located in Anarkali near the central museum. But certainly, both the Anarkali and the Lahore Museum were then not at their present locations. The entire length from the Lohari gate to Chauburji was then called Anarkali and according to one official letter dated 22nd September 1860 the Lahore Museum comprises was then located somewhere in Anarkali. The tollinton market was constructed in 1864 to house the first Punjab Exhibition and acted as Museum premises for next 30 year finally to be shifted to present Building on Shahrah e Quaid-e-Azam in 1894. The original building of General Post Office was located south of the present Tollinton market (1864) and east of the Punjab public library (1882). Here in 1849, was constructed a barrack like building to house the ever first post office of Lahore. It was headed by Mr. W. T. Clifford, the first postmaster who assume his charge on 12th June 1849 and lived in a large Bungalow situated closed by in an extensive compound. The Postmaster of Lahore then used to work under the Postmaster General of the North Western Provinces with his headquarters at Agra. Although after 1849,some additions were made to the post office building but soon the Postmaster General felt that the accommodation hardly sufficient for the staff. Besides, he had certain reservations about the very site of Post Office. The Lahore Cantonment, then located in old Anarkali was being shifted to Mian Mir (Present day Lahore Cantonment) and several buildings in Anarkali were vacated. Mr. B. Riddal, the Postmaster General of the North Western Provinces, therefore wrote in March 1852 to the secretary, board of Administration Punjab, inviting his attention to his earlier letterof November 10th 1851 and requested him to allot one of the houses vacated by the Army officers in Anarkali for the use as post office. The request of the Postmaster General, however, could not be acceded and deferred. By October 1862, there was appointed a separate Postmaster General for Punjab. The Lahore GPO continued to work in its old location in Anarkali. By the year 1883, it had only three branch offices in Lahore, one each at railway Station, Moti Bazar and Lohari mandi. A horse-dak used to ply along the grand trunk road to Ferozepur and a male cart ran daily from Lahore to Mian Mir. Besides, there were pillar-post boxes cleared three times a day. No business was transacted on Sundays,New years days, Good Friday, the queen's birthday and Christmas day. As late as 1876 packages were received at the Lahore GPO in Anarkali for despatches by Government bullock train 24 stations from Peshawar to Ferozepur. This was the time when several of prestigious buildings which today are regarded as landmark of the city of Lah
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