Mail Collection (page 7)

Police searching debris after bomb explosion, London
Police searching debris after bombs concealed in mailbags exploded at Euston Station, London, 6 February 1940. 1940

Girl at a post box on a Valentine card. Date: circa early 20th century

Santa Claus with list and post on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1950s

Poster, Blue Star Line to South America, design by Norman Wilkinson. circa 1925

Chainmail armour 12th & 13th century
Chainmail armour of the twelfth and thirteenth century. Date: 12th & 13th century

Christmas mail going to the Front, Basra, Iraq, WW1
Christmas mail going to the Front, Basra, Iraq, during the First World War. circa 1916

Bygone Days, The George Inn, Mail Coach departing
Bygone Days, The George Inn, A Mail Coach departing in the snow. early 19th century

Advert, White Star Line, Royal and US Mail Steamers
Advert, White Star Line, Royal and United States Mail Steamers, sailing weekly between Liverpool and New York. 1880

Advert, Inman Line Royal Mail Steamers between Liverpool and New York. 1880

Advert, Cunard Line, Royal Mail steamers
Advert, Cunard Line, the British and North American Royal Mail steamers, with a list of destinations, prices, and other useful information. 1880

Pressroom, Sears Roebuck & Co, Chicago, Illinois, USA, where the famous mail order catalogue was printed. Date: circa 1910s

The Country Postman. People You See, from Teddy Bear magazine, 1965. Date: 1965

People You See: The Porter. From Teddy Bear (4 January 1964). Original artwork loaned for scanning by the Illustration Art Gallery. Date: 1964

Mail ship at Palma de Majorca, Majorca, Spain
Mail ship, Ciudad de Palma (City of Palma) at Palma de Majorca, Majorca, Spain. Date: circa 1940s

Advertisement, Union Steamship Company, Castle Line, showing destinations including Madeira, Canary Islands, South African Gold Fields, Cape Colony, Madagascar, Delagoa Bay, Natal

Chief office of the parcel mail 1849
Mail coaches busy outside the main office in Catherine Street, in the Strand, London. Date: 1846

Horse-drawn parcel mail 1849 Horse-drawn parcel mail service 1849
A horse-drawn parcel mail service of 1846. Date: 1846

Moving Post Office in Worcestershire 1909
Ombersley in Worcestershire had a service were a travelling bus with a post box fixed to the rear, when passing two or three times daily you could post your letters

Knot porter 1746
Knot porter from London, carrying lots of parcels on his back. 1746

Advert for Rudge Whitworth Cycles 1895
Advertisement of Rudge Whitworth Cycles, manufacture of bicycle for leisure, race and business. 1895

Parcel mail porter 1846
Parcel mail porter in London. Date: 1846

Poster, Royal Mail Atlantis Winter Cruise to West Africa, South Africa and South America. 1934

Poster, RMSP New York service by Royal Mail
Poster, RMSP New York service by the " O" Steamers, The Royal Mail Steam Packet Co, London EC2. circa 1930s

PYNE - MAIL COACH
THE ROYAL MAIL Our letters are carried across the country by mail coach - this one plies between London and Worcester, carrying pass- -engers as well as mail. Date: 1808

Order Office at Kays Stores 1905
The order office at Kays Universal Stores, Worcester, a mail-order company : these clerks are working in the Shopping By Post department. Date: 1905

RECEIVING A LETTER
A decorative lady slips a letter into her handbag Date: 1928

Father Christmas reading Xmas letters
Father Christmas reads his mail Date: circa 1870

Boeing DH-4M-1 110 of the US Air Mail Service, seen before its modern restoration. The Boeing DH-4 was initially almost identical to the original de Havilland design

L-W-F Model H Owl - AS64012
L-W-F Model H Owl AS64012, in later guise with extended centre nacelle and four-wheel main undercarriage. The Owl was distinctive for its tube-like twin booms with central nacelle fuselage

Military Mail and Volunteer Review 1903

Postman Gets Invitation Date: 1950

Neither Sleet nor... Date: 1947
Neither Sleet nor.... Date: 1947

WW1 - Little boy praying for the safety of Lord Kitchener (Secretary of State for War from 1914 to 1916) - For if anything should happen to him, wed have nobody to look after us but the Daily Mail !

Harry Brodribb Irving (1870 - 1919), British stage actor and actor-manager, photograph shows him in The Lyons Mail, which was such a great success, at the Shaftesbury. Date: 1908

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Battle armour in chain mail and plate armor from the 15th century.. Gravestone of Ludwig von Hutten, 1414. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Altenecks Costumes

USE THE AIR MAIL POSTER
Poster advertising air mail saying Use the Air Mail, The Fastest Mail. Date: 1933

First regular air mail, England to Australia 1934
First regular air mail from England to Brisbane in Australia, Sir Kingsley Wood making his speech. Leaving from Croydon, London in Imperial Airways liner. Date: 8 December 1934

Air mail leaving Croydon for Karachi, India 1929
The first air mail service between Croydon, England and Karachi, India. Inaugurated by Armstrong-Siddeley Argosy air liner of Imperial Airways, arriving on 6 April. Date: 30 March 1929

Waiting for the mail train 1890s
Two officers of the Post Office fixing the mail-bag to the post outside Bletchley station on for the London and North Western Railway

Travelling rail post office 1890s
Her Majestys mail-carriers, sorting letters on the London and North Western railway with speeds of sixty miles an hour. Date: circa 1890s

New public pillar post box 1857
New freestanding public post box of 1857, set up in the streets of Metropolis, designed by A. Copper, C.E. of Great George Street and Mr. W. J Wills superintended the ornamentation. Date: 1857

Genoese archer, winding up or bending his crossbow. Date: 12th century

DEVON POSTMAN 1938
At Hartland Quay, Devon, at 16 miles (the furthest in England) from the nearest railway station, the postman delivers the afternoon, and only daily mail. Date: 1938

COACH AND SNOW
A German mail coach makes its way through heavy snow, the horses slipping on the icy road. Young Bismarck is inside the coach, if you care. Date: 1859

COACH IN VIRGINIA 1874
A stagecoach negotiates a bumpy route in the hills of Virginia. Date: 1874

DEVONPORT MAIL IN SNOW
The driver of the Devonport Mail encourages his team to race through a snowdrift. Date: circa 1825

BIRMINGHAM MAIL IN SNOW
When the Birmingham Mail is inextricably embedded in snow near Aylesbury, Buckingham- shire, the guard takes the mailbags on two of the horses. Date: circa 1820

Racial Types - Brazil Postman
A smartly dressed Brazilian postman delivers the mail to two native Brazilians who are hardly dressed at all Date: circa 1905

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