First-class delivery of a new era in Kirkgate

The distinctive Old Post Office café and bar marks the start of a new era for No. 64 Kirkgate, which was Silsden's post office for 110 years, from 1907 to 2017, when the business moved to Twigg's newsagents.
Pictured above are the Old Post Office owners Helen Rampling and her partner Gavin Hawker. Helen previously ran Bilaluci's café bar, now closed, across the road. The transformation of No. 64 has been helped by a £36,330 grant from a European Union investment in rural businesses and community assets. 

Helen and Gavin have salvaged the front of the former post office counter and incorporated it into the bar at the new café, which was packed for the sunlit opening weekend on February 23rd and 24th.The café has a small seating area outside overlooking the beck.The upstairs floors are being converted into two one-bedroom flats.