OBJECT TITLE / NAME

Old Post Office Museum

DATE1986

MEDIAImage

COLLECTIONMornington and District Historical Society

REG NO.700

HISTORY

The first Post Office was opened in 1861, and this building erected 1863-64, coinciding with the provision of the electric telegraph services in the town, a telephone exchange was installed there in 1905; in the 1960’s the
Post Office moved further up the Main Street and the Mornington and District Historical Society retained the building which is now known as the Old Post Office Museum

DESCRIPTION

Looking at the entrance into the Museum from the Main Street

SUBJECTS

Museum, Post Office

KEYWORDS

Esplanade, Main, Mornington & District Historical Society, Museum, Post Office