Lancastria SteamshipPassenger liner and mail steamer of the Cunard White Star Line
The Great Train Robbery: aftermath & reportage, 1963" The most daring and fruitful mail robbery in English History" : a page from The Illustrated London News, detailing the aftermath of the Great Train Robbery of 8th August 1963
RMS Kenilworth Castle - Union Castle Line. Launched in 1904 and scrapped in 1936. Date: circa 1905
Poster, Night Mail, quoting part of the poem by W H Auden written for and narrated in the documentary film of the same name (1936). circa 1930s
Daily Mail War Map, WW1A fold out war map issued by the Daily Mail in the early weeks of the First World War. The map offers statistics regarding the manpower strength of each of the warring nations
Union-Castle Line posterSouth and East Africa, Madeira and the Canaries with the Union-Castle Line offering a fast mail service and an address for the head office in Fenchurch Street, London
Poster advertising Royal Mail Lines to the West IndiesPoster advertising a Royal Mail Lines cruise to the West Indies on the liner Atlantis
Union-CastleAdvertising poster for Union-Castle, Mail Steamship Company Limited, featuring a liner running from Southampton to Cape Town and vice versa next to small sailing dinghies
RMS Caronia - Cunard Line - launched in 1904 - scrapped in 1932. The start of World War I caused her to be requisitioned as an armed merchant cruiser
RMS Orvieto - Orient Line SteamerThe Royal Mail Ship Orvieto was a steamer of the Orient Line engaged in the passenger trade between England and Australia
Pacific Line PosterPacific Line, Pacific Steam Line Navigation Company Liverpool, royal mail steamers to brazil and South America, 1904 1904
The Eastcastle Street Robbery, 1952A page from the Illustrated London News, detailing the Eastcastle Street Robbery of 1952, when a Post Office van was hijacked and its contents, 200, 000 in soiled notes, were stolen
Poster advertising Shaw Savill & Albion Line round the world tours to New Zealand direct, via the Panama Canal. Through bookings to Australia and Tasmania by Royal Mail steamers
The RMS Aquitania (Cunard Line) in the Port of Liverpool. Date: 1930
The Cunard Liner RMS Scythia - became a troop and supply ship during WW2. Date: 1922
RMS Megantic - White Star Line - launched in 1908 - scrapped in 1933. The ship was attacked by a German U-boat during World War I, but survived. After his arrest in Canada, Dr
Pan American Airways route mapPan American Airways System global route map of the Flying Clipper Ships (passengers, mail, express). circa 1938
Wouldn t you like to just sail away? Theres a fabulous Union-Castle / Safmarine mailshipWouldn t you like to just sail away? Theres a fabulous Union-Castle/Safmarine mailship leaving a South African port every week. Date: circa 1970s
P&O RMS Strathmore - India and Australia Mail ServiceP&O RMS Strathmore - India and Australia Mail and Passenger Service Date: circa 1910s
N. Y. K. Line - M. S. Heiyo MaruN.Y.K. Line (Nippon Yusen Kaish) - M.S. Heiyo Maru. Date: 1938
Records of first UK aerial mail serviceThepostmasters official handwrittenrecordsrelatingto thefirst UKaerialmail service from London to Windsor andWindsor to LondoninSeptember1911. 1911
Use the Air Mail PosterGPO Poster, Use the Air Mail, The Fastest Mail. Depicting the underside of a monoplane against a blue and black sky
Poster advertising Union Castle Mail Steamship CompanyPoster advertising the Union Castle Mail Steamship Company Limited, South African Royal Mail Service. Donald Currie & Co, Managers
South America by Royal MailPoster for Royal Mail Lines Ltd - South America by Royal Mail - depicting a large ocean-going steamship
Clan MacdonaldClan MACDONALD OF THE ISLES clad in a coat of chain-mail, the chieftain with an angry look gives orders for some miscreant to be punished
Allan Line to Canada posterPoster advertising the weekly express service to and from Canada with the Allan Line Company. The ships also appear to deliver Royal Mail aswell
Christmas parcels for the trenches 1916Army Post Office in Regents Park, was receiving a rate of half a million parcels for Christmas a day for the soldiers in the trenches
SS Maloja - P&O Line - India-China-Australia mail and passenger services. Date: circa 1910s
Mail Ship Flags & OthersFlags including those of the States of Australia, New Zealand, Royal Mail & the Orient and Pacific Steam Navigation Companies
Iranian PostmanAn Iranian postman in western uniform delivers mail to a shopkeeper in traditional costume. Date: circa 1900
Vera Lynn during the Second World WarPage from The Sketch featuring Forces Sweetheart, singer Vera Lynn answering fan mail, leaving home to star in the show Applesauce at the Palladium
Spain (1493). Letter of the queen Isabel I to Christopher Columbus (5th September 1493). SPAIN. Sevilla. General Archives of the Indies
Poster advertising Royal Mail Line Cruises to Norway. 20th century
Poster advertising Royal Mail Asturias Summer CruisesPoster advertising Royal Mail Summer Cruises on the Asturias cruise liner. 1935
De Vere, Earl OxfordAUBREY (ALBERIC) DE VERE 2ND EARL OF OXFORD Lord High Chamberlain of England, with Adelizia, his consort. He is depicted in full suit mail. Date: - 1215
The British Empire Exhibition - Postcard backThe reverse of a postcard sent from the British Empire Exhibition of 1924, held at Wembley Park, London, showing the official exhibition stamp and event postmark!
Mailboxes in Takaka, South Island, New ZealandA row of colourful farm mail boxes at the roadside in Takaka, at the northern end of New Zealands South Island
Heath Robinson Bedroom 4 of 4Heath Robinson Does Away with Servants - Patent Applied for by " The Sketch" in the Bedroom. A bedroom, which is a typically Heath Robinson design, with a system of pulleys
Airmail postcards at Gamages, LondonPeople at Gamages in Holborn, Central London, addressing postcards and posting them in the special London Aerial Postbox, in time for the first aerial mail service from Hendon to Windsor
Poster advertising the Union Castle LinePoster for the Union Castle Line, advertising weekly sailings to South and East Africa. A Royal Mail service is also offered
Lms down SpecialThe London Midland and Scottish Railways Down Special mail train heads north with the Scottish Mail
General Post OfficeTHE GENERAL POST OFFICE, Lombard Street, London
The first aerial post in EnglandThe first aerial postman receiving the first bag of mail for carriage by airship: Mr Hamel signing the official receipt
Parcels Post Van C1870Parcels Post van of the British Post Office
RMS Oceanic - White Star LineThe RMS Oceanic One of the greatest White Star liners. She was the first ship built after Thomas Ismay bought the company, with a highly innovative design
GPO map of Mail Steamship Routes. Date: circa 1950s
Rudolph Valentino / MailRUDOLPH VALENTINO Italian-American romantic film idol with his fan mail Date: 1895 - 1926
Advertisement, Freemans catalogue, featuring LuluAdvertisement for the Freemans of London mail order catalogue, featuring the pop singer Lulu, March 1975. 1975
