3-078-118 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Penny Postage Jubilee Celebration at Guildhall: exhibition of Post-Office relics, and portraits, 1890. '1. The late Hubert Paton, a Mail-driver, as he appeared after the terrible Snowstorm of March 1, 1886. 2. A Manchester Postman in official livery, before the Penny Postage Reform. 3. The first Pillar Letter-box, 1855. 4. London Postal Directories, 1840-1800. 5. The only Postman at Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1824. 6. Heber Dale (height 4 ft., age 51), the shortest man in the Postal Service, 1883. 7. The Lord Mayor's Guests Watching Telegraphic Operations at the Guildhall. 8. A Letter-woman, with Bell, 1768. 9. James Nobbs, the last of the Mail-guards, still in the service. 10. A Post Office of 1790. 11. Lamp-post, Letter-box, and Fire-alarm, combined. 12. Old Post Office Timepiece, in leather case. 13. Analysis of the London to Edinburgh Mail, before the Penny Postage Reform. 14. Last Letter (in Arabic) received by post from the late Gen. Gordon; dated Khartoum, June 22, 1884. 15. Original Bell, used by the Bellmen who collected letters in the City in 1840. 16. John Brindley, the only Letter-carrier in Wolverhampton in 1834...an interesting exhibition illustrating the rise and progress of the British postal service during three hundred years'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.