File:Post and Telegraph Offices, Flinders Street, Townsville, c 1890.jpg

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English: The Townsville Post and Telegraph Office’s construction commenced in 1886, designed by colonial architect John James Clark who also designed Brisbane’s well-known Treasury Building. If you’re familiar with the Townsville Post Office, you might well be wondering why the clock tower looks so very different today than in this picture.

The building’s original ornate, Renaissance inspired tower (featured in our image) was dismantled in 1942 in an effort to reduce the building’s visibility to aerial attack during World War II following the Darwin bombings which devastated Australia’s lines of communication through a direct hit on the Darwin Post Office and adjoining Telegraph buildings.

After much community petitioning, the redesigned clock tower that we see today was finally installed in 1963-1964.

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This image was originally posted to Flickr by Queensland State Archives at https://flickr.com/photos/60455048@N02/28322567761. It was reviewed on 5 September 2023 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the Public Domain Mark.

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