ALBASTON Post Office may be no more but its facade will act as a lasting reminder — that is the hope of owner Susan Anderton, who has won support from Calstock Parish Council to turn the building into residential accommodation.
The post office was closed last month together with 48 across Cornwall following a review by Post Office Ltd to make the network more sustainable.
Mrs Anderton apologised to members of the parish council at their meeting last week for the state of the building: 'It is boarded up because I feel vulnerable but I am hoping to put it back like it was,' she said.
'The ground was swept from me by the post office and there is nothing I can do about that, but I am trying to put back the little square windows in oak like the originals and redo the slate hanging.'
She said she had hopefully saved the letter box and wanted to put a wood plaque above the top windows with the dates of the life of the 102-year-old post office so people were aware of its history.
Mrs Anderton was also seeking suggestions for names for the building.
'I cannot call it the old post office because my house next door is called Post Office House and that is too similar I am told,' she said.
'But as I am a newcomer to the village I am open to suggestions to what anyone would like to call it.'
Without the post office which had been run by her daughter, Mrs Anderton said the shop was not viable.