General Post Office
The General Post Office established its new headquarters on the site of the monastic precinct in 1829 . From here mail coaches departed for destinations all over the country. Coaches bound for the north went up St. Martin's Le Grand through Aldersgate - the first stage of the Great North Road (now the A1 road) to York and Edinburgh. The Post Office building, a grand Neoclassical design by Robert Smirke, was demolished in 1911, having been replaced by new premises immediately to the west, on the former site of Christ's Hospital school .
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