Near this spot the General Letter Office stood in Post House Yard, 1653 - 1666. Here were struck in 1661 the first postmarks in the world.
{There is then a symbol about the size of a capital letter: a circle divided with a horizontal line with "AP" in the top half and "19" in the lower half. This is the post mark for 19th April the date postmarks were first used.}
The Corporation of the City of London
EC2, Prince's Street
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
General Letter Office
We did not find the website of The British Postal Museum & Archive terri...
Inked date stamps were at first called 'Bishops marks' after their inventor, ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
General Letter Office
The municipal governing body of the City of London. Officially the 'Mayor and...
In 1997 someone saw this plaque and posted about it on an on-line forum, with no photo. All the post said was that the plaque commemorat...
English Heritage Dr Margery Blackie, 1898 - 1981, homeopathic physician, lived and worked here 1929 - 1980.
English Heritage Sir George Frederic Still, 1868 - 1941, paediatrician, lived here.
We are grateful to London Footprints for this information: “This was designed in 1905 by R Stephen Ayling for 'ladies engaged in or train...
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