Post Office and Tenement Offices Long Street and Sadler Street, Middleton

NEW PREMISES TOR THE MIDDLETON CORPORATION FOR POST OFFICE AND TENEMENT OFFICES This building is being carried out from the designs of Messrs. Stones and Stones, architects, Richmond Terrace, Blackburn, and North John Street, Liverpool. It is intended to provide on the ground floor the post office for Middleton, and on the upper floors will be offices for letting. Part of these will probably be occupied by the Corporation officials. The tender of Messrs W A. Peters and Sons, of Rochdale, has been accepted for carrying out the work. [Building News 25 September 1903 page 409]

NEW POST OFFICE MIDDLETON - To Builders and Contractors – tenders are invited for the erection of the new Post Office and Tenement Offices in Long Street and Sadler Street, Middleton. Specifications and quantities have been prepared by Messrs Stones and Stones, architects and surveyors, 10 Richmond Terrace, Blackburn, and copies of these may be obtained and drawings may be inspected at the Town Clerk’s office, Middleton on or after Tuesday 30 December 1902. [Manchester Guardian 16 December 1902 page 1 – contracts]

Opened       26 May 1905

Reference    Manchester Guardian 16 December 1902 page 1 – contracts
Reference    Manchester Guardian 10 January 1903 page 4 – contracts
Reference    Manchester Courier 17 January 1903 page 10 - contracts
Reference    Building News 25 September 1903 page 409 and illustration  
Reference    Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser 6 Oct 1902, page 2
Reference    Manchester Evening News 10 July 1902, page 3
Reference    Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser; 13 May 1905, page 8