Post Office

The single storey Post Office building (formerly the Village Bakehouse) can be seen at the top of the village.

The post office had multiple homes over the years, moving into the multistory nursery buildings just next door where it stayed for the duration of the post office being in use.

 It's original home was in the one story building to the side of the tenements.

The village post office began as the bakehouse for the village. The village bakery, which is an important part of the continued development of New Lanark during the 19th century, was added to the south end of the tenements blocks in 1850.

 It later served as the post office. The village store in the central block was established by Robert Owen about 1810 and was run by the company until 1933 when it was leased to the Lanark Provident Co-operative society. The shop tearoom and post office continued to trade until 1990.