Mail Collection (#20)

George Lester - Mail Carrier at Cortland Post Office
George Lester - Mail Carrier No.1 at The Cortland Post Office, NY, USA. Date: circa 1915

Mail delivery to ASC workshop behind the lines, WW1
A delivery of mail to men at an ASC (Army Service Corps) travelling workshop, working behind the lines during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

RMSP Alcantara, armed merchant cruiser, WW1
RMSP (Royal Mail Steam Packet) Alcantara, a merchant cruiser which was turned into an armed ship during the First World War

Louis Bleriot with Lord Northcliffe at the Savoy
Louis Bleriot (1872 - 1936), French aviator, engineer and inventor and the first person to cross the Channel in an aircraft

Louis Bleriot in London with Lord Northcliffe after Channel
Louis Bleriot (1872 - 1936), French aviator, engineer and inventor and the first person to cross the Channel in an aircraft

Daily Mail Home Exhibition - Australian Wines
Daily Mail Home Exhibition - An exhibit promoting the wines of Australia Date: circa 1930s

LNWR - Royal Mail Train at Rugby Station
London and North Western Railway Company - The Scotch Express at Rugby Station. The locomtive is the Invincible. Date: 1904

RMSPC Pier, Barbardos
The Royal Mail Steam Packet Companys Pier, Bridgetown, Barbados Date: circa 1910s

Soldiers of Henry III
Soldiers of the reign of Henry III : on the left a man of arms in full armour; right, a cross-bowman, in a long mail tunic : behind, a peasant, unarmoured, bearing a spear. Date: 1250

Boarding a Coach
Travellers board the mail coach which will carry them over the Saint Gotthard pass, Switzerland. Date: 1877

Britannia Cunarder 2
Cunard passenger liner which starts the first regular transatlantic mail service; in 1849 she is sold to Germany and ignominiously ends her career sunk as a target ship. Date: launched 1840

Packet for Balloon Post
An actual envelope for a letter sent by balloon post out of Paris during the Siege. The letters were limited to a weight of 4 grams ! Date: 1870

Taylor Thermometer / 1897
Thermometer by Taylor Bros. Co. a most appropriate Christmas, Wedding or Birthday present !? Date: 1897

German Knights & Lady
German knights & lady Date: 1371 - 1393

Coach Going down Hill
A mail coach descends a hill. Date: circa 1835

Overland - Telegraph
The old pre-electric telegraph signals the abstract of the Indian Mail from Marseille to Paris, or vice versa. Date: 1844

Australian Postman
Gathering the mail from a postbox in Australia

German Knights / 14th C
German knights Date: circa 1370

Old Maids / Postman / Mail
Two unmarried women of a certain age, waiting to see what the postman has for them - could it be Valentines Day? Date: circa 1910

Mail-Coach Leaving
With letters and packets for Brighton, the mail-coach leaves the General Post Office, London Date: circa 1840s

Middlesex House of Correction, Clerkenwell, London
The Middlesex House of Correction, opened in 1794, was later known as Cold Bath Prison, then Clerkenwell Gaol. It became a debtors prison before closing in 1885

Two Post Office workers waiting for the mail train at a lineside mailbag collection and drop-off point. In the background are railway lines, signals, and a goods train

The Ford Monoplane was used for Air Mail carrying and was manufactured by a subsidiary company of the ford Motor Company. It was fitted with a 400 H.P. Liberty Engine

General Election: Confusion Worse Confounded
Three bewildered voters read the daily newspaper posters which give rather conflicting views on the status of their preferred political parties

Zip opening letterbox / W H Robinson
Post War Town planning. The new Zip opening letterbox for taking all sizes of letters. Please note: Credit must appear as (c)

Correspondence Course / W H Robinson
Learning to drive by Correspondence Course. Please note: Credit must appear as (c) Courtesy of the estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/Mary Evans Picture Library

Postal Service Jubilee card - Prague, Czechoslovakia
A card celebrating the 40th anniversary (1887 - 1927) of the start of the Prague postal and telegraph service, by land and now by air too!

A new use for letterboxes 1941
Pillar box tops should serve more useful purpose than the mere protection of letters. Here, a useful cosmetic container enables every passing lady to touch up and repair her appearance

People boarding a Transair aeroplane, Vienna
A group of people boarding an aeroplane operated by Transair, in Vienna, Austria. (1 of 3)

People disembark from a Transair aeroplane
A group of people disembarking from an aeroplane operated by Transair, in Vienna, Austria. (2 of 3)

Postbox by J. A. Thorpe
A small girl (Phyllis) posts a letter while out walking the dog with her mother and says with a sudden clarity of understanding, " So thats where Aunty Mabel lives"

Life on board a man-of-war
Life in the British navy on board a man-of-war. 1. Playing up the colours, 8am; 2. A Corrobborie in the gun room on Saturday night; 3. Taking up the slops; 4

Gustav Hamel leaving Hendon for Windsor
The aviator Gustav Hamel leaving Hendon Aerodrome for Windsor on the very first airmail flight. The first aerial mail service took place on 9 September 1911 from Hendon to Windsor and back again

Andre Beaumont, winner of the Great Air Race
Andre Beaumont of the French Navy, winner of the Great Air Race, also known as the Round Britain Air Race, covering 1000 miles in five days (22-26 July). Twenty pilots took part

Jules Vedrines, second in Great Air Race
Jules Charles Toussaint Vedrines (1881-1919), French aviator who came a close second in the Great Air Race, also known as the Round Britain Air Race, covering 1000 miles in five days (22-26 July)

Belgium - Port of Ostende
Port of Ostende, Belgium. The mailship ferry departs the harbour as young boys fish off the pier, while others just lean on the railings watching the ships disappear into the North Sea

Sorting Mail
Sorting mail at the post office at the turn of the century

The Postal Team at a regional depot
Royal Mail employees, from the directors to postmen, pose for a group photograph at a regional post depot, alongside a post box and a fleet of postal vans. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Poster advertising Messageries Maritimes, French mail service steamships to Australia, Indochina, the Indian Ocean, the Mediterranean, Brazil and Argentina

Sir Rowland Hill - Postal Reformer
Sir Rowland Hill (1795-1879) - English postal reformer - introduced the penny post

Christmas Post by Ethel Parkinson
A woman, accompanied by a small girl, posts a rather large stash of Christmas cards off to lots of lucky recipients

Crimean war John Bythsea & William Johnstone
During the Crimean War, Commander John Bythsea (or Bythesea) and Stoker William Johnstone seize the Russian mail and despatches from five Russian soldiers in order to intercept important messages

Poster advertising Norway via Royal Mail
Poster for the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, advertising trips to Norway and northern capitals. Luxury cruises on the SS Arcadian

Royal Mail Atlantis Cruises poster
Poster advertising a cruise on the RMSP Atlantis with the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, featuring a smiling young woman in what looks like a North African location, carrying a water urn

Italian Airmail Warehouse
View of an Italian Airmail Warehouse (Aero Espresso Italiana) with a British seaplane. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Grahame-White and Lady Northcliffe at Hendon
The aviator Claude Grahame-White (1879-1959) with Lady Northcliffe at Hendon before the Great Air Race (probably the air race sponsored by the Daily Mail in 1910)

Coaling a Royal Mail steam packet at Kingston, Jamaica
Scene at the harbour in Kingston, Jamaica, showing lines a women carrying baskets of coal on their heads on board a Royal Mail steam packet ship

India - Pigeon Post envelope
A Pigeon Post envelope used to send a message to Vice Admiral Herbert Fitzherbert CB C.M.G from Kalyan to Bombay (a distance of thirty miles)

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