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The Edinburgh and London Royal Mail, 1838.The guard can be seen at the back. John Frederick Herring. A mail coach is a stagecoach that is used to deliver mail.In Great Britain, Ireland, and Australia, they were built to a General Post Office-approved design operated by an independent contractor to carry long-distance mail for the Post Office.
The General Post Office (GPO) is a former post office building in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was built 1861–65 on the site of the Old Theatre Royal, between Waterloo Place and North Bridge, Edinburgh, to the design of architect and Clerk of Works for Scotland, Robert Matheson. [1] In 1861, Albert, Prince Consort laid the foundation stone.
The 1831 published Post Office Annual Directory was issued under the patronage of Sir Edward Smith Lees, Secretary to the General Post Office for Edinburgh [13]: 1 who had been moved to Scotland when he swopped his Irish secretaryship with his counterpart Augustus Godby during the reforms of the Irish Post Office in 1831. [14]
A print showing a mail coach decorated in the black and scarlet Post Office livery near Newmarket, Suffolk in 1827.The guard can be seen standing at the rear. The postal delivery service in Britain had existed in the same form for about 150 years—from its introduction in 1635, mounted carriers had ridden between "posts" where the postmaster would remove the letters for the local area before ...
A Travelling Post Office (TPO) was a type of mail train used in Great Britain and Ireland where the post was sorted en route, used from 1830 to 1996, with non-TPO mail trains ending in 2024. The TPO can be traced back to the earlier days of the railway, the first ever postal movement by rail being performed by the Liverpool and Manchester ...
He was descended from James Learmonth, Lord Balcomie.. He was born on 26 May 1789 the son of John Learmonth or Learmont, an Edinburgh coach-builder based at 4 Princes Street on the site presently occupied by the Balmoral Hotel, and was a man of independent means before becoming a property speculator and politician, becoming a city Bailie in 1830.
The Commercial Bank, George Street, Edinburgh. He was born on 28 June 1757 in Perth, Scotland [1] the son of George Sandeman of Springland (1724-1803) and his wife, Jean Duncan of Seaside. [2] His younger brother was George Sandeman (1765-1841). In 1790/91 they jointly founded the company of Sandeman's Port. [3]
The General Post Office (GPO) [1] was the state postal system and telecommunications carrier of the United Kingdom until 1969. [2] Established in England in the 17th century, the GPO was a state monopoly covering the dispatch of items from a specific sender to a specific receiver (which was to be of great importance when new forms of communication were invented); it was overseen by a ...