The post office is still there and Barsby’s seems to have gone from strength to strength expanding its shopfront over the years!
But….Can you date this photograph?
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Category: -- Can you date...?
Tag: Moments in Time
Jennysoldcars says:
If we can find a date for the removal of a big old power and telegraph pole outside the post office date could maybe be narrowed down a bit – the pole with many insulators is shown in a 1938 photo on the Nat. Archives website, also shows the P.O. fence to be timber not chain wire – say photo then is after 1938.
Photos online at Nat. Archives show the Kempsey post office during and after the 1949 floods and in 1950 – no big cluttered power pole, chain wire fence.
The cars and trucks – 1930s models, 2nd car in line could be 1940-41 or 1946-47.
So photo I suggest photo taken between 1938 and 1949.
Allan Cole says:
Anna . I have never been to Kempsey but it is interesting that the clock on the Post Office tower shows exactly midday. I agree your comments and as some of the men are wearing braces instead of belts I think you are correct. Newspapers on Trove have a picture of Kempsey Post Office after its completion in 1891.