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Cottesloe Post Office and Telephone Exchange (former)

Before messages fitted in our pockets, this limestone building was Cott's communications hub. Built in 1897 and opened as the Post Office and Telephone Exchange in 1898, it connected a rapidly growing suburb by mail, telegraph and telephone. Its deep verandah and thick stone walls still make it an easy landmark opposite Cottesloe Station.

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Find the former post office at 81-83 Forrest Street, just east of Cottesloe train station. View the limestone frontage from the public footpath.

The building was constructed by Leggo & Clague from locally quarried limestone, with walls around 40 centimetres thick and jarrah floors laid over a pounded limestone foundation. Its telephone exchange opened with 88 subscribers - the first exchange on the Perth-Fremantle telephone line and only the third in metropolitan Perth.

There are some unexpected connections in its story. In 1900 the exchange briefly became the endpoint for Western Australia's first submarine telephone cable to Rottnest Island. By 1921 it was serving 846 telephone subscribers, and during the Second World War it became an important local communications centre for Cottesloe resident and wartime Prime Minister John Curtin.

A linesman's depot and horse stable were added at the rear in 1906 - a reminder that maintaining the network once involved rather more than restarting a modem. The post office eventually moved to Napoleon Street in 1964, and the old building later found new community uses. It has been on the State Register of Heritage Places since 2004.

Heritage Council of WA

Cottesloe History - Post Office and Telephone Exchange

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