The Post Office from which the manuscript of Villette was sent

The Telegraph and Argus features Haworth Old Post Office, which is set to open as a café soon. But the article seems to mix up the most recent post office also at the top of Main Street but at a different place which closed in 2022 and this one, which hasn't been an actual post office for many, many years but which was one during the Brontës' lifetimes.

The premises, in Main Street, Haworth, ceased operating as a post office in the summer of 2022.

A huge campaign of opposition had failed to keep open the outlet, which in the 19th century was used by the Brontë sisters to post their manuscripts to London.

Post Office Ltd relocated its services to the village's Co-op store.

Now work is underway to convert the old building, which is scheduled to open in its new guise before Easter.

An £8,900 grant has been awarded by the Government-financed Keighley Towns Fund towards the cost of the project.

In addition to fitting out the premises with commercial kitchen equipment and furniture, the extensive work includes the relaying of the roof and reinstatement of Victorian chimney pots, the installation of heritage-style railings to the front, replacement windows, the removal of a lean-to at the rear and the provision of a Sugg lantern on the front corner of the facade. (Alistair Shand)

AnneBrontë.org marks the anniversary of the publication of Villette on 28 January 1853.