Near this place William Dockwra founded the London Penny Post in 1680.
Corporation of the City of London
EC3, Lime Street
The top of the plaque can just be seen in our photo, to the right of the left-most yellow cone.
From : Dockwra and his partner "had a Head Office in Lime Street and 7 sorting offices. In two years it had grown to four to five hundred receiving houses, with messengers who delivered between 5 and 15 times daily."
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
William Dockwra
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This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
William Dockwra
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