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...
A local resident said that this plaque (and the one next door, to Sir Alfred Munnings) is spurious and was erected by developers purely t...
{Beneath the London Docklands Development Corporation logo:} Rotherhithe Tunnel Airshaft. This listed structure was constructed between 1...
English Heritage Edith Cavell, 1865 - 1915, pioneer of modern nursing in Belgium and heroine of the Great War, trained and worked here, 1...
In our photo the Memorial Hall foundation stone is on the corner of the red brick wall, the copper beech plaque is on the pebble-dashed p...
For information about where this plaque has been erected before see Rowland Hill - NW3 - second erection (and stop tittering at the back)...
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