Post Collection (page 44)

Turkish Postman
A Turkish postman with satchel and long stick checks a signpost to make sure he is delivering to the correct address!

The Monarch 120 Call Connect System
A secretary or receptionist uses a new electronic post office telecommunications device/switchboard unit. A promotional photograph for the Monarch 120 Call Connect System

Sorting Mail
Sorting mail at the post office at the turn of the century

German observation post 1917
A German observation post on the Lens Arras Road on the Western Front in France during World War I in June 1917

Machine gun post, Queant line 1918
A large reinforced concrete machine gun post in the Queant Line on the Western Front in France during World War I in October 1918

Observation post 1918
A soldier in a canvas and steel observation post near Souchez on the Western Front in France during World War I in May 1918

Lewis gunners 1918
British Lewis gunners of the 12th Royal Scots wearing box respirators in action in a front line trench during a gas attack on the Western Front in France during World War I in June 1918

Observation Post 1914
British soldier at an observation post on the Western Front in France during World War I in 1914

British artillery observation post at Outtersteene Ridge on the Western Front in Belgium during World War I on 18th August 1918

Christmas post 1916
Christmas letters and parcels from home are cheerfully received by soldiers at the front line on the Western Front

Observation Post
A steel tree used as an observation post by the Australian forces at the Battle of Messines, Western Front, Belgium during World War I in 1917

The Postal Team at a regional depot
Royal Mail employees, from the directors to postmen, pose for a group photograph at a regional post depot, alongside a post box and a fleet of postal vans. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Sir Rowland Hill - Postal Reformer
Sir Rowland Hill (1795-1879) - English postal reformer - introduced the penny post

Christmas Post by Ethel Parkinson
A woman, accompanied by a small girl, posts a rather large stash of Christmas cards off to lots of lucky recipients

Tarsus, Turkey - Bridge of Cydnus
The Bridge of Cydnus at Tarsus, Turkey. A city in Mersin Province, near to the city of Adana. With a history going back over 9, 000 years Tarsus has long been an important stop for traders

English postman
A postman collects the mail from a red letterbox on a snowy winter morning

Mules being led from Santi Quaranta to Ioannina
Mules being led from Santi Quaranta (now in Southern Albania) to Ioannina (Jannina) on the shore of Lake Ioannina. Both towns were in Ottoman Turkish hands in 1906

Italian Airmail Warehouse
View of an Italian Airmail Warehouse (Aero Espresso Italiana) with a British seaplane. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Reigate Heath Windmill, a Grade II listed post mill with a single storey roundhouse at Reigate Heath, Surrey. In 1880 the roundhouse section was converted to a chapel of ease to St Marys Parish

Colonel Billy Bishop VC with German air aces
Air Marshal William Avery Bishop (1894 - 1956) VC, Canadian First World War flying ace, being toasted at a gathering of air aces in Berlin where he was guest of honour

India - Pigeon Post envelope
A Pigeon Post envelope used to send a message to Vice Admiral Herbert Fitzherbert CB C.M.G from Kalyan to Bombay (a distance of thirty miles)

Piccadilly Circus, London 1947
A panorama of Piccadilly Circus, London. A crowd of people cross to the statue of Eros, while cars fill the streets

French soldier in a trench 1915
French soldier in a listening post in the French line on Vimy Ridge using a periscope on the French front during World War I in December 1915. This post was retaken by the Germans in 1916

St Johns Square - Malta, showing Arab influence on the architecture, a small florists booth/kiosk and a traditional British letterbox, bearing the insignia of Queen Victoria

Selection of French Stamps

Unveiling the Cenotaph, 1920
Unveiling of the Cenotaph and the funeral of the Unknown Warrior, Armistice Day 1920. Ex-servicemen with wreaths waiting in Whitehall to pass the Cenotaph after the unveiling in London on 11th

Womens Volunteer Reserve 1916
Womens Volunteer Reserve driving the Royal Mail during World War I. Here being given engine instruction in November 1916

Morocco - Tangiers - Main Street
Rue Principale - Tangiers, Morocco

Benares - Banks of the Ganges, India
Bathing on the banks of the River Ganges at Benares. This card also shows the Raja Jai Singh Observatory. The massive structure was one of a number of astronomical observatories built by Maharaja

Lear / Nonsense / Man Post
There was an Old Man of the coast, who placidly sat on a post; But when it was cold, he relinquished his hold, and called for some hot buttered toast

Battle of the Aisne 1918
French artillery observation post near Vendresse during the Battle of the Aisne on the Western Front in France during World War I in 1918

Charleville, Queensland, 1908
Country Mail Stagecoach leaving the Charleville Post Office in Queensland, Australia

British machine gun post 1918
British machine gun post at night traversing the German communications trenches at Cambrai on the Western Front in France during World War I in January 1918

Princess Elizabeth of York uses the Pigeon Post
Photograph of the Queen Elizabeth (b. 1926) when Princess Elizabeth, together with her sister Princess Margaret in the grounds of Buckingham Palace

Kestrel and English Countryside scenery
A Kestrel sat on a fencepost is set into the border framing a n atmospheric view of the late summer light throwing the shape of the trees of an English countryside into sharp relief

Essaouira, Morocco - tourists landing
Essaouira (formerly Mogador) - tourist resort on the Western Moroccan region of Marrakesh on the Atlantic coast - occupied since prehistoric times

Dreaming of being the victor
A man dreams of being the Olympic Champion!

A German artillery observation post in a haystack

Letters from home: The base post office

Complete Surrender by H. H. Harris
A post-WWI issue of The Bystander depicting a dashing monocled officer escorting a glamorous flapper girl dressed in yellow, furs and a red cloche hat

British Observation Post; Second World War, 1940
Drawing showing an advanced Observation Post in the British sector of the Maginot line, March 1940. This observer, using a telescope

The Demolition of Heligoland, Germany, 1947
Aerial photograph showing the destruction of the former naval base on Heligoland, Germany, on 18th April 1947. Heligoland had been a stronghold for German military forces during both World Wars

The Potsdam Conference; Second World War, 1945
Photograph showing the leaders of Great Britiain, the Soviet Union and the United States of America meeting at the Potsdam Conference, July 1945

Rough Hospitality in Siberia. A Post-House on the Way to the
Special Artist Julius Price sent sketches of his journey to the Orsk gold mines in Siberia back to the Illustrated London News Office and the sketches were then drawn up by R. Caton Woodville

A French observation post mounted up a tree
Two soldiers are seen up a tree used as a French army look-out post on the Western front, August 1916

The First Modern Telephone, 1909
Photograph of the first automatic telephone exchange system (modern telephone), installed by the German Post Office in 1909

Royal Mail departure from the General Post Office
Colour illustration showing horse-drawn Royal Mail carriages departing from the General Post Office, London

Christmas post
Front cover engraving from the Graphic showing a postman arriving at a house in the country

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