Dunmore Post Office

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NameDunmore Post OfficeTypeBuildingBusinessGeolocation^[1] Last edited by: Will Chittick

DescriptionMr. George Warburton Fuller, son of George Laurence and Sarah Fuller, Dunmore Estate, advised the Kiama Independent of a letter he received from the GPO Sydney on the 4th August 1890, that they had decided to establish a Post Office at Shellharbour Railway Station on the 18th instant under the charge of Mr. T.C. Humphreys, railway station master. (K/I 12/8/1890)

The first Postmistress at Dunmore was Elsie Burns, followed by Lena Oates and then Ivy Ward.

On Shellharbour Road near the railway station, a row of houses called ‘The Terrace’ were built around 1920 to house the quarry workers from the Locking Hill blue metal quarry west of the railway line.

In 1924, a Post Office Store/Bakery and residence was built by T.D. Whitfield in Shellharbour Road Dunmore Lot 2 on the J. T. Ward sub-division.

The post office was conducted by Ivy (nee Ward) and King Filmer.

Subsequent owners of the store conducting the Post Office were:-

1940 E. Ackland, 1945 A. Smeaton, 1946 William Bros, 1947 J. & C. Rodgers, 1949 G. Fraser & Foodey, 1950 R. Stanley, 1952 J. Godfrey, 1959 R. & O. Oates, 1965 E. Coleman, 1972 G. Healey, 1973 Twist, 1974 J. & A. Ward, 1976 B. & D. McLachlan, 1981 M. & B Morris, 1983 J. & I Stevenson, 1991 M. & P. O’Grady.

The former Filmer's Bakery was at the rear of the building.

External LinkDunmore Post Office 1913Presentation Miss Burns 1914Dunmore Post Office Robbery 1918National Archives of Australia Dunmore POst Office File SP32/1

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Former Post Office & Store at Dunmore, 1986.

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Dunmore Post Office