Sai Ying Pun Post Office (1st generation) [1914-1964]

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Demolished / No longer exists
Date completed
Date closed / demolished

It's opening on 1 May 1914 was announced in item 126 of the Hong Kong Government Gazette 1914 (Supplement):

GENERAL POST OFFICE.

No. S. 126.-- It is hereby notified that a new District Post Office, to be known as
the "Saiyingpun Branch Post Office", will be established on the Sanitary Board Premises
at Saiyingpun, on the 1st May, 1914.

The present "Western Branch" will in future be known as the "Sheung Wan Branch Post Office"

E. D. C. WOLFE,
Postmaster General.
24th April, 1914.

It wasn't a new building, it just occupied the southern / uphill end of an existing Sanitary Board building. The Post Office section of the building is shown on this map:

1922 Map of Pokfulam Road between Second and Third Streets, by Admin

and between the two vertical lines marked on the photo below:

First location of Sai Ying Pun Post Office , by hkspace_wl

I believe the post office closed on 25 Apr 1964, see https://gwulo.com/media/54978

The post office relocated to temporary premises further up the hill, while this site was re-developed. 

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1922 Map of Pokfulam Road between Second and Third Streets
1922
Sai Ying Pun Post Office (first location)
c.1951
1960s Sai Ying Pun post offices
1960s
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