Windback Wednesday - Glynburn Road Post Office

Did you know? The first mail delivery in Australia is believed to have taken place in July 1803 in Sydney.

Postal services in Burnside were initiated circa 1863 by Joseph Lockwood and were conducted from his store on the corner of High Street and Lockwood Road until in 1903 the Post Office on Glynburn Road was built by the Federal Government. The Glynburn Road Post Office is a solid red-brick building with a bull-nosed verandah and timber eaves that incorporate a Flemish bond brick pattern. Service transactions were originally made through a window that opened onto the verandah.

Photograph: Burnside Post Office, 1956. Burnside Local History Collection.