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From the Queensland Heritage Register.

The Post Office was constructed in 1886 at a cost of £17,235. Dennis Kellcher submitted a tender and carried out extensions in 1888, while a clock tower was built by Henry L Davis & Co. Chimes were imported from England in 1889 and installed by 1891. As a result of severe bomb damage done to buildings in Darwin, the clocktower was dismantled in 1942 and the mechanism was stored away. A greatly modified tower was built in 1963-64 by JE Allen & Co. of Townsville at a cost of £42,135. The interior was also modernisation at this time. Because of its prominent location, the Post Office often became the scene of political rallies around a speaker on a soap box.

Queensland State Archives Item ID436299, Photographic material

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Nicolaus Joseph Kessels was born in Holland about 1850. He arrived in Australia in 1867 with his mother and siblings, Willem and Eugenie. He was naturalised in 1876; in the naturalisation document has name has been anglicised to “Nicholas”. In 1878 he applied to lease 1000 acres of land south of Brisbane to survey for a homestead. He was a member of the Yeerongpilly Divisional Board, which became the Shire of Yeerongpilly in 1879. Kessels Road between Salisbury and Upper Mount Gravatt is named after him. He later moved to the Burnett region and was a member of the Degilbo Shire Council. He died in Maryborough in 1926.

Queensland State Archives, Digital Image ID 5470

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