Feilden Clegg Bradley has £18m postal job licked

[TrueBlueTerrier]

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Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios has bagged a deal to design a home for the British Postal Museum & Archive in Swindon.

The £18 million scheme will involve moving the museum’s archive from two sites at the Royal Mail’s Mount Pleasant sorting office in north London and another location in Essex to a new home at the former Great Western Railway works in the Wiltshire town.

The Grade II* listed building has been declared ‘At Risk’ by English Heritage and FCB will also be required to bring the new home up to scratch.

It will hold a vast collection of postal artefacts stretching from every British stamp issued since the Penny Black through to posters, photographs along with red pillar boxes and postal vehicles.

A phased opening is due to begin in 2013.

[dvbuk55]

2013? Just in time for the privatisation fest - it can be used not just as a museum but also a mausoleum, a testament if you like to a once great and proud service.

[DirtyHarry]

2013? Just in time for the privatisation fest - it can be used not just as a museum but also a mausoleum, a testament if you like to a once great and proud service.

Very sad, but very true.