Post Collection (page 16)

Speedboat off prom Eastbourne
A small speed boat leaves a white wake as it passes below Eastbourne pier, Sussex. Two young male holidaymakers look down on it. First published The Sunday Times Date: circa 1991

Rural business, Post Office and employees. Binfield Heath, Oxfordshire. Date: circa 1920s

WW1 - Home Front - Daylight Air Raid - Damage to GPO, London
WW1 - Home Front - Daylight Air Raid - Damage to the General Post Office building, London. Date: 1917

Swiss Mobile Post Office (Schweiz Automobil Postbureau) offering postal, telephone and telegram services to remote parts of the country. Date: 1939

Bucks Green, West Sussex - The Post Office and local Postie (with bicycle). Date: 1907

Downton, Wiltshire - The Post Office and full local staff. Date: circa 1910s

The Mail and Telegraph Office at Valencia, Spain
The Mail and Telegraph Office (Main Post Office) at Valencia, Spain. Date: circa 1920s

Czech Republic - Mobile Post Office - Auto Posta
Czech Republic - Mobile Post Office and Sorting Vehicle - Auto Posta. Date: 1937

The Morning Post Lebaudy Airship

Wiley Post makes a final examination of his pressure suit in 1934. Date: 1934

Brindisi, Italy - The Post Office. Date: 1942

Aubervilliers, France - The Post Office - opened in 1927. Date: circa 1930

Spa Resort near Florence, Tuscany, Italy - Postal Kiosk where you can buy postcards and send your messages. The Post Master (in uniform) is pictured. Date: 1905

Rome, Italy - Palazzo delle Poste e Telegrafi Date: 1901

San Francisco, California, USA - View up Market & Post Sts
San Francisco, California, USA - View looking up Market and Post Streets Date: 1928

Ashtabula, Ohio, USA - Post Office Date: circa 1920

Cleveland, Ohio, USA - Post Office and US Custom House Date: circa 1931

Lion cub has her morning wash and scrub - London Zoo
Mary Pickford the young lion cub (!) has her morning wash and brush-down from her keeper - London Zoological Gardens, Regents Park, London. Date: 1920s

WW1, Rouen, France, British Post Office and Boieldieu Statue
WW1, Rouen, France, British Post Office and Statue of Francois-Adrien Boieldieu, French Composer. Date: 1917

Loading a small boat into a Cargo Plane operated by International Air Freight Ltd - capacity per machine over 2 tons or 700 cubic ft. Date: 1920s

A Jolly Postman invites you to look in his post box
A Jolly Postman invites the recipient of this card to Open his box of tricks and look at the contents - in this case some tiny ()

Post Office - Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Situated on Post Office Square and housing the Federal Courts also. The Granite walls of the buildings helped to check the Great Fire of November 9th-10th

Post Office Street - Thun, canton of Bern in Switzerland
Post Office Street - Thun, in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. Date: circa 1910s

Duke of York at the reconstructed G. P. O. at Mount Pleasant
Albert, Duke of York (later King George VI 1895-1952) at the reconstructed G.P.O. at sorting Office at Mount Pleasant, London - November 1934

New Haven, Connecticut, USA - New Post Office Date: circa 1930s

Birth of Princess Margaret - Interested villagers of Glamis gathering outside the post Office to see/read the first bulletin

Place Menelik in Djibouti City
Place Menelik with post office on the right in Djibouti City, north-eastern Africa. Date: circa 1920

Birthday card, girl and postman. circa 1950s

Church Street, Middelburg, Transvaal, South Africa
Church Street, Middelburg, a farming town in Transvaal (now Mpumalanga), South Africa. Date: circa 1905

Christmas card in the shape of a parcel, with a delivery boy carrying a basket of geese. Date: 1890

Coffin of priest Ken-Hor. Egypt
Rectangular outer coffin of Ken-Hor. Four corner posts and vaulted lid. Wood. 600 BC. 26th Dynasty. Grave of priest Ken-Hor. Akhmim-Sohag. Neues Museum. Berlin. Germany

Inspector Sheila Ward, Met Police, London
Inspector Sheila Ward (b.c1937), Met Police, London, the first woman to hold the post of Station Inspector, at Kings Cross. Seen here speaking to a line of male police officers

Artificial Breastfeeding
A mother breastfeeds her child artificially with the device of Dr Auvard : inset, the device of Dr Bailly Date: circa 1880

Envelope with sealing wax and one penny stamp, 1848
Envelope with sealing wax from Woodbridge, Suffolk, date stamped 2 June 1848, addressed to J W Candler, 23 Liverpool Terrace, Liverpool Road, Islington, North London

Rif War - French-Moroccan Machine Guns in Atlas Mountains
Rif War - French-Moroccan Machine Gun post in the Atlas Mountains, Morocco. The Rif War was an armed conflict fought during the first half of the 1920s between the colonial power Spain

General post office, Fedala (Mohammedia), Morocco
General post office, Fedala (Fedhala, now Mohammedia), Morocco. Date: circa 1930

Crown and Royal Monogram
The crown and monogram of Queen Elizabeth II on a 20th century post box

War Workers Alphabet
A poem of the alphabet showing wartime womens working jobs from A to Z, including things such ass for shepherdess. Every letter of the alphabet includes an illustration

The Observation Post No reply, Sir - line cut again
The Observation Post. No reply, Sir - line cut again. Captain Gilbert Holiday, Royal Field Artillery (1879-1937). Holidays Early Life Was Spent In St

Prefabricated aluminium homes 1945
During the Second World War many houses were destroyed, due to this, aluminium prefabricated houses (prefabs) were built, by Britains aircraft industry

Wellingtons HQ at Waterloo, Belgium
Wellingtons Headquarters during the Battle of Waterloo - now the Post Office. Date: circa 1906

Telegram excuse sent by husband to disguise affair
Telegram excuse sent by an older man to his wife to disguise the affair he is having with his young Secretary. Date: 1909

Tangier, Morocco - Petit Socco (Zoco Chico) Spanish Legation
Tangier, Morocco - The Petit Socco (Zoco Chico) - the Spanish Legation and Post Office. Date: circa 1910s

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia - The Post Office Date: circa 1910s

Fire Brigade street fire alarm call post
A passer-by pulls a fire alarm to notify the fire brigade of an incident. By the outbreak of the First World War the London Fire Brigade area was well covered with electric fire alarms

Sensible Roosevelt - A whipping-post for wife-beaters. Cover illustration showing man wearing mask whipping another man manacled to whipping post, as a woman with arm in sling looks

Children posting a letter
Two children, dressed in adorable matching yellow outfits, post a letter at a rather remote looking postbox. Date: 1951

Grove Park Hospital, Lewisham, London
Entrance to the Grove Park Hospital, Marvels Lane, Lewisham, south east London. The buildings, designed by T & J Norman Dinwiddy

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