Post Shop

Post Shop, 115a Stoke Newington Road, Borough of Hackney, London N16, 2002 • Not the most reassuring-looking of post offices. It’s now been closed for a very long time and by 2017 still looked much the same, only even more bleached.

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By Vici MacDonald
On 2018/02/15
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2002, Borough of Hackney, London, N16, Shopfront Elegy

final closure, grimness, post office

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