Maritime Archive and Library

Liverpool Head Post Office showing war damage, 1941

Stewart Bale collection online exhibition

Archive reference 41206-1

The Sir Thomas Street (on the left) and Victoria Street fronts of Liverpool's former Head Post Office are shown here. The building sustained serious war damage and the top two floors were later removed as a result. The facades of the lower stories remain and have been incorporated into the shopping development the Met Quarter.

Further information

Conservation Technologies at the National Conservation Liverpool were commisioned by the Met Quarter to help conserve and redisplay the memorial from the former Post Office in the following linked projects:

• conservation of the Post Office memorial sculpture
• replication of the Post Office Memorial plaques
• production of commemorative medals featuring the new Whitechapel facade of the Met Quarter