Old Post Office, Sangre Grande

The Old Post Office at Sangre Grande may not look it but is one of the oldest buildings within a quarter-mile radius of the Police Station. And it appeared on the scene even before the Police Station, being one of the very first public buildings in Sangre Grande. Sangre Grande was then a little village known as Cunapo. It is the area in the centre of the old Cunapo that the oldest buildings in Sangre Grande can be found. Almost all the old buildings in that area have now gone; some destroyed by fire, others by the sheer passage of time, and the area itself, apart from the roadways, has been transformed. The building under review, undistinguished and ill kept, has weathered the storm of many hectic days, for the Sangre Grande railway station is just next door. Indeed, this post office building was erected in the year after the railway came to Sangre Grande – 1898. Information by Kara Roopsingh and the National Trust of Trinidad and Tobago: https://nationaltrust.tt/location/old-sangre-grande-post-office/