Post Collection (page 14)

Post runner with letter, Japan, circa 1870s. Date: circa 1870s

Cartoon, Hunting season. At a French border post, two German officers ask two French soldiers if the hunting season is in progress hereabouts. 1916

A rare King Edward VIII pillar box, Lilliput, Dorset, England. He reigned from January - December 1936, when he abdicated to marry divorcee Wallis Simpson. Date: 1936

Come rain or shine, or snow... this dedicated English postman delivers letters in the village. Date: 1960s

An English Victorian post box, reputed to have been used by Prime Minister William Gladstone, at Bournemouth, Hampshire, England. Date: 19th century

An old English country post box, at Wheelers End, Buckinghamshire, England, dating from the reign of King Edward VII (1901 - 1910). Date: early 1900s

Seven identical letter boxes in a block of flats. Date: 1960s

The construction of the Rotunda, an iconic cylindrical tower block in Birmingham, England. Date: 1964

View from St. Pauls Cathedral, looking north-west, with the Old Bailey and Holborn and Bloomsbury area beyond. Note the modern office blocks being built. Date: 1963

The exterior of a pigeon-loft in the rue Magenta, Paris, where birds would arrive carrying messages from outside the city (2 of 2) Date: Jan-Feb 1871

The interior of a pigeon-loft in Paris, where birds would arrive carrying messages from outside the city (1 of 2) Date: Jan-Feb 1871

The pigeon post : messages from outside Paris are brought in by the birds, magnified by a projector and transcribed Date: Jan - Feb 1871

The annual celebration of the Relief of Derry, attracted a large group of nationalist protesters in Londonderry, commemorate the events in 1689 when a 105 day siege of the city by Jacobites was

Letter sorting office at the General Post Office - St Martin s-le-Grand, London. This was the main post office for London between 1829 and 1910. Date: 1900

Post Office and Parliament Buildings, Bermuda
circa 1910s

Casablanca, Morocco - Carrefour de la Poste
circa 1910s

Casablanca, Morocco - La Grande Poste
circa 1910s

Casablanca, Morocco - Boulevard de la Gare and Post Office
circa 1910s

Young Jockey on a rocking horse posting a letter
D you know that you owe me a letter? I fear you re an awful forgetter, or are you a jockey to boast how often you re passing the post? 1934

Glarus, Switzerland
Sights of Glarus, Switzerland, including The Vorder Glrnisch mountain of the Schwyzer Alps overshadowing the town, the Post Office building, Cantons Hospital (Kantonsspital) and Stadtkirche

Round Wooden Table Date: 1880

Cougars in Formation Date: 1954

F3H at Sunset Date: 1954

Meadowlark in Valley Date: 1954

West Africa 1547 Date: 1547

Tourist Queries Guard Date: 1950

Four Rest Homes Behind the Front Date: 1915

Advert for Amorphophallus Campanulatus, plant seeds 1891
Amorphophallus Campanulatus, two or three feet across, with spotted stem which rises several feet and unfolds at the top an umbel of beautiful palm-like foliage which spreads out several feet like an

Mauritius - Port Louis - General Post Office - now the Mauritius Postal Museum Date: circa 1909

Rajah Tipu Observatory, Bengaluru (Bangalore), India
Tipu Sultan (Tippoo Saib) Observatory - Bengaluru (Bangalore), India. Date: circa 1910s

Home delivery room demonstration
A room as it should be prepared for a maternity case by a Queens (district) nurse. Features a bed with a large pillow and sheets turned back, newspaper and bucket on floor and cot to one side

General Post by J E Harold Terry
Date: 1917

Red English Post Box in a brick wall in Cambridge, England

The Illustrated London News - post office van 1845
Post Office collecting sacks of magazines from The Illustrated London News. been collected from the main office. Date: 1845

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

New sorting-room at General Post Office 1846
New Inland department of the General Post Office in St. Martins-le-Grand in London. Date: 1846

London Parcels Delivery Company 1862
London Parcels Delivery Company, head office in the Rolls-building, Fetter-lane, London. The yard with uproar of bustle and activity, lie waiting for their turn of duty. Date: 1862

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

General Post Office London 1890s
Women at work in the General Post Office tube room at St Martins-le-Grand in the City of London. The room had pneumatic tube connections to post office establishments. 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

Weighing machine at the general Post Office 1856
The object of the machine is to enable the Post Office authorities at St. Martins-le-Grand to weigh en masse, letters and newspapers sent daily from office to the provinces. Date: 1856

SNOWY LONDON 1979
Winter snow in central London, with the Post Office Tower in the distance. Date: 1979

ZEPPELIN PUB SIGN
A public house in Germany which, wishing to be very up- to-date, adopted a zeppelin as a pub sign. The old sign of the Post-horn can still be seen hanging above it! Date: 1930s

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

DERBY FINISH 1850s
A huge crowd cheers and waves the Derby winner past the winning post. Date: 1870

Racial Types - Guyana - Postman
A postman of French Guyana delivers the post and other items to two women Date: circa 1905

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