Canadian Mail - Newsreel - 1943 > .
Running from Whitechapel in East London, to Paddington in the west, and snaking all along Oxford Street and under Selfridges, the network was considered so clandestine that it was used to hide the Rosetta Stone during the First World War.
Running from Whitechapel in East London, to Paddington in the west, and snaking all along Oxford Street and under Selfridges, the network was considered so clandestine that it was used to hide the Rosetta Stone during the First World War.
https://www.postalmuseum.org/news/sneak-peek-mail-rail-footage/ .
https://www.postalmuseum.org/discover/attractions/mail-rail-exhibition/ .
https://www.postalmuseum.org/news/playing-with-trains/ .
https://www.postalmuseum.org/news/loco-mule/ .
https://www.postalmuseum.org/ .
https://www.postalmuseum.org/connect/about/our-history/ .
The postal service was founded under Henry VIII, who tasked Sir Brian Tuke with establishing a national postal network to serve his Court. Opened to the public by Charles I in 1635, it became the General Post Office under Oliver Cromwell and subsequently Charles II in 1660. In the early 1800s organisation and safeguarding of records began.
Sir Francis Freeling, a master spy during the Napoleonic Wars and Secretary of the Post Office from 1797 until his death in 1836, took the lead in establishing the foundations of the GPO Archive, when a system for recording minutes and reports was introduced.
In 1838, following the passing of the first Public Records Acts, the General Post Office government department, emphasized record-keeping. By the 1890s, the General Post Office (GPO) HQ in St Martin’s Le Grand, Central London, included a Record Room where the archive of the institution could be studied.
The GPO Film Unit was a subdivision of the UK General Post Office. The unit was established in 1933, taking on responsibilities of the Empire Marketing Board Film Unit. Headed by John Grierson, it was set up to produce sponsored documentary films mainly related to the activities of the GPO.
https://www.postalmuseum.org/discover/attractions/mail-rail-exhibition/ .
https://www.postalmuseum.org/news/playing-with-trains/ .
https://www.postalmuseum.org/news/loco-mule/ .
https://www.postalmuseum.org/ .
https://www.postalmuseum.org/connect/about/our-history/ .
The postal service was founded under Henry VIII, who tasked Sir Brian Tuke with establishing a national postal network to serve his Court. Opened to the public by Charles I in 1635, it became the General Post Office under Oliver Cromwell and subsequently Charles II in 1660. In the early 1800s organisation and safeguarding of records began.
Sir Francis Freeling, a master spy during the Napoleonic Wars and Secretary of the Post Office from 1797 until his death in 1836, took the lead in establishing the foundations of the GPO Archive, when a system for recording minutes and reports was introduced.
In 1838, following the passing of the first Public Records Acts, the General Post Office government department, emphasized record-keeping. By the 1890s, the General Post Office (GPO) HQ in St Martin’s Le Grand, Central London, included a Record Room where the archive of the institution could be studied.
The GPO Film Unit was a subdivision of the UK General Post Office. The unit was established in 1933, taking on responsibilities of the Empire Marketing Board Film Unit. Headed by John Grierson, it was set up to produce sponsored documentary films mainly related to the activities of the GPO.
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