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Last known photo of Captain Smith of RMS TitanicRMS Titanic - extremely rare first generation press photograph taken by Dr McLean from the tender Ireland as she brought mail and a handful of passengers to the Titanic
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 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
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
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
The Cunard Liner RMS Scythia - became a troop and supply ship during WW2. Date: 1922
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
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
Pacific Line PosterPacific Line, Pacific Steam Line Navigation Company Liverpool, royal mail steamers to brazil and South America, 1904 1904
The RMS Aquitania (Cunard Line) in the Port of Liverpool. Date: 1930
SS Maloja - P&O Line - India-China-Australia mail and passenger services. Date: circa 1910s
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
Poster advertising Royal Mail Asturias Summer CruisesPoster advertising Royal Mail Summer Cruises on the Asturias cruise liner. 1935
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
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
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
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!
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
First airmail letter delivered, Windsor CastleThe first airmail letter ever to be delivered is handed to the Postmaster of Windsor, to whom it is addressed, on the East Lawn of Windsor Castle
Allan Line to Canada posterPoster advertising the Royal Mail Allan Line passenger service to and from Canada. Passage can be booked through Sercombe and Hayes, emigration and passenger agents based in Dorchester
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
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
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
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
Poster advertising Royal Mail Line Cruises to Norway. 20th century
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
GPO map of Mail Steamship Routes. Date: circa 1950s
SS Viceroy of India - P&O Line - India Mail and Passenger Service. Date: circa 1910s
RMS Columba -Clyde Paddle BoatPleasure steamer 316 feet in length, 50 feet across with dinning saloon for 100 persons. Started from Glasgow, Craigendoran, Greenock, which called at pier to pier along the popular routes
Postman with trumpet, horse and cart. 19th century
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
Poster, The Continent via Dover-Ostend, Belgian State Railways and Mail Packets. Date: circa 1930s
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
Penny Post Jubilee card - Sir Rowland Hill - 1890A Penny Post Jubilee card, issued in 1890 to celebrate the Golden Jubilee (50 years, 1840 - 1890) of the Penny Post. The card features a postman from 1840 and one from 1890
Paddle Steamer Bournemouth Queen, of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company. Date: circa 1910
Knight Templar, knight and BishopKnight Templar stands on a Mediterranean shore, wearing the red cross on his cloak authorised by pope Eugenius III in 1146. Knight in chainmail, robe and holding shield and sword, and bishop
The Cunard Ocean Liner RMS Mauretania in full flow Date: 1922
Dod Procter RA (born Doris Margaret Shaw, 18901972), English artist, and wife of artist Ernest Procter, pictured in The Sketch magazine in 1927 when her painting Morning which was exhibited at
Barrabool - P&O Line (one class only) - England-Egypt-Ceylon (Sri Lanka)-Australia service - twin-screw vessel. Date: circa 1910s
Cover design, London Mail, Christmas Extra 1923Cover design in art deco style, London Mail Christmas Extra 1923 Date: 1923
Mail coach on the High Street at Stony StratfordA packed vintage four-horse mail coach on the High Street at Stony Stratford, Buckinghamshire. Due to the juxtaposition of two hotels in the centre of town, The Cock and The Bull (pictured)
The Fast Mail by Lincoln J. Carter. First produced in England at Rochdale on 26th December 1891 and at the Grand Theatre, Islington, London on 27th June 1892
The Cunard Liner RMS Mauretania - Second Class Lounge. Date: 1922
The Cunard Liner RMS Mauretania - Passenger Elevators. Date: 1922
The Cunard Liner RMS Mauretania - The Entrance Hall Date: 1922
Poster advertising Royal Mail Line trips to VenicePoster advertising Royal Mail Line autumn cruises to Venice, also calling at the Dalmatian Coast, Athens, Corfu and Constantinople. Showing a gondola on the canal below the Bridge of Sighs
Ideal Home Exhibition - Heath Robinson HomeWilliam Heath Robinsons Ideal Home - " The Gadgets". Displayed at the Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition at London Olympia. Date: 1934
Harland & Wolff - promotional brochureHarland and Wolff - extremely rare Harland & Wolff promotional brochure. This soft-bound volume includes company history and information
MAIL COACH IN FLOODA mail coach in a flood. Date: circa 1835
Paddle Steamer Southampton, at SouthamptonPaddle Steamer Southampton of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, at Southampton, with passengers on deck. Date: circa 1900s
Front cover design for a brochure for Liner RMS MauretaniaThe attractive front cover design for a brochure for the Liner RMS Mauretania, designed by Leonard Peskett and built by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson for the British Cunard Line. Date: 1922
The Mimosa Daily Mail arrives in NiceAn aeroplane arriving in Nice to deliver copies of the Mimosa Daily Mail, a special Riviera edition of the newspaper for people enjoying some winter sunshine in the fashionable South of France
Blitz in London -- salvaged mail, Calthorpe Street, WW2Blitz in London -- following the bombing of Mount Pleasant Post Office on 18 June 1943, salvaged mail was temporarily piled up in nearby Calthorpe Street. Date: 1943
RMS Kenilworth Castle - Union Castle Line. Launched in 1904 and scrapped in 1936. Date: circa 1905
P&O Mail and Passenger liner - SS RawalpindiP&O liner SS Rawalpindi - India Passenger and Mail Service - 16, 600 tons gross. Date: 1937
The first aerial mail is posted
Mails for the Packets arriving at Falmouth, 1833 circa 1930
Air Mail to Africa PosterPoster, Air Mail to Africa, showing two Africans looking up at airliner G-ABPI. 20th century
Ballon-Poste 1871A Ballon-Poste loaded with mail leaves the place Saint- Pierre, Montmartre Date: January 1871
Royal Mail Lines L Amerique du SudRoyal Mail Lines poster for the French office in Paris advertising travel to South America, to Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina. The ocean liner advertised is the Andes
Gustav Hamel arriving at Windsor with the airmailThe aviator Gustav Hamel arriving at Windsor from Hendon on the very first airmail flight. The first aerial mail service took place on 9 September 1911 from Hendon Aerodrome to Windsor
RMS Empress of Britain, ocean linerThe RMS (Royal Mail Ship) Empress of Britain, an ocean liner built between 1928 and 1931, owned by the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company
SS Orsova, 1909Photograph of the Orient Steam Navigation Companys Australian Mail Liner SS Orsova at sea, 1909. Built in 1909 by John Brown and Co
