Death of a Post Office

Chesterfield Post Office town centre

Godfrey Holmes watches the controversial move of Chesterfield’s Crown Post Office from one side of the Market Place to the other.

AT 5.30PM PRECISELY ON MARCH 26, Chesterfield’s Crown Post Office shut its solid timber doors for the last time: so severing a strand in the town’s history stretching back, unbroken, to 1660…