The Postal History Museum reports that Mylnefield Feus Post Office was established in May 1845 under the authority of Dundee Postal Town.  It became a Money Order & Savings Bank in 1858 and a Telegraph Office in 1903.  Ordinance Survey Maps of 1861 show the Post Office as being located across the lane from where you are now.

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In 1859, Mylnefield Feus (Invergowrie’s Main Street today) was described as “a neat village of modern construction on the Dundee and Perth Turnpike Road, four miles from Dundee.  It consists of a Free Church and Manse, a Public House, a Post Office and several cottages of good construction.  The Superior is Alex Wighton Esq of Grange of Barry.”  Wighton was responsible for many improvements in the village including drainage and mains water.    

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In 1902, Mylnefield Feus Post Office re-located to this building and remained here until c1925 when it re-located to Errol Road.  It moved back to this building c1958 as Invergowrie Post Office, having changed its name in 1912 in line with the developing village.  It remained in this building until the 1990s at which point it moved across the street to where it is today.

     

This building is thought to have been built by a mason from Lochee called William Martin.  During its occupation by the Post Office at different periods in the 20th Century, it changed very little.  It did have a small tea-room during the 1970s and 1980s.  

The Post House Coffee Co opened in November 2016.  The postal memorabilia in the front room are original artefacts and include an almost 100 years-old typewriter and a Post Master’s briefcase from the 1920s.  The red bicycle outside (c1980s) was issued by Royal Mail and is the last postman’s bike to be used in the village.