The Postal Workers’ War Memorial at Mount Pleasant sorting office has been listed at Grade II. This is part of an English Heritage scheme to list up to 500 war memorials a year over the next five years to mark the centenary of the First World War.
4 August commemoration event at the Mount Pleasant Memorial.
Postal Workers War Memorial at Mount Pleasant.
The war memorial commemorates 130 postal workers of the Western District who lost their lives in the First World War. Originally constructed at the Wimpole Street Post Office by their colleagues with funds raised from the staff of the district, it was unveiled on New Year’s Day, 1920. A further plaque was added listing 56 workers who lost their lives in the Second World War.
When the Wimpole street office closed in 1981, the memorial was moved to the delivery offices at Rathbone place, and then to the sorting office in Mount Pleasant in 2013.
4 August – First World War commemoration ceremony at Mount Pleasant memorial.
4 August – First World War commemoration ceremony at Mount Pleasant memorial.
You can find out more information about the Mount Pleasant memorial along with information about Post Office war memorials around England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.