Post Collection

Grand National 1954, won by ROYAL TAN and Bryan Marshall, Aintree, Liverpool, Saturday 27th March 1954

Post Office Sorting Room Date: 19th century

Royal Mail coach, 1820, (c1950). Creator: Shirley Markham
Royal Mail coach, 1820, (c1950). Shirley Markham (1931-1999) studied Graphic Design and Illustration at Central School of Art in London from 1950-1952

Poster, Night Mail, quoting part of the poem by W H Auden written for and narrated in the documentary film of the same name (1936). circa 1930s

The Royal Logistic Corps. The Royal Logistic Corps (RLC) was formed in 1993, by the union of the following British Army corps: Royal Corps of Transport, Royal Army Ordnance Corps

Above the Black Sea by Leonov
" Above the Black Sea" by Alexei Leonov, Soviet cosmonaut and science fiction artist

The Favourite Wins by H. M. Bateman
Humorous illustration by H.M. Bateman showing a reversal of roles. A group of jockeys in different coloured silks sprint for the finishing post while excitable horses in the stands cheer on the winner

Metropolitan Police recruitment poster
A Metropolitan Police recruitment poster, asking for ex-servicemen to apply. There are several hundred vacancies to fill

Barn Owl - Sitting on post Northumberland, England
USH-1606 Barn Owl - Sitting on post Northumberland, England Tyto alba Duncan Usher Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Label, Hotel Post, St Anton am Arlberg, Tyrol, Austria
Luggage label from the Hotel Post, St Anton am Arlberg, Tyrol, Austria. Date: 20th century

Sixth Column Strategy
Stout patriots dislodge an enemy machine gun post from the dome of St. Pauls using the usual Heath Robinson cunning! Please note

Postman on Pennyfarthing
A postman on a penny farthing delivers a parcel to a woman dressed in a long coat with fur trim

Easter Rising commerated, 1932
Five battalions of the Irish Republican Army marching passed the General Post Office in Dublin on Easter Sunday, 1932, to commerate the Easter Rising of 1916

Post Office Tower
Post Office (British Telecom) Tower, photographed from the corner of Windmill Street, central London

Advert / Exhib Pre-Raphael
Show of Pre-Raphaelite art at the Goupil Gallery, London : but the style of the poster is post-pre-Raphaelite even while paying homage to the pre- Raphaelite subject-matter

Poster, The Vegetabull, a vegetable dish made with dried eggs or household milk is as good as a joint (post-WW2 rationing was still going on at this time). 1947

Starting Post, Saratoga Race Course, NY State, USA
Jockeys and their horses, including War Admiral, approaching the Starting Post, Saratoga Race Course, Saratoga Springs, New York State, USA. Date: 1939

Haymarket, Sheffield, 1937
Elevated view of Haymarket looking towards Fitzalan Square and General Post Office. Norfolk Market Hall, left, No 32, Castle Street, Arthur Davy and Sons Ltd, Provision Merchants

Fitzalan Square, Sheffield showing (left) General Post Office, Bakers Hill; (centre)
Sheffield City Archives co Media Storehouse Buildings and streets

Picture No. 10884320
Common Buzzard - resting perched on post (Buteo buteo) Date:

New Paddington Fire Station, West London

A summer sunset at Brancaster, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Maps / Australia Post-1876
Map of Australia with names of Counties

Supermarine test pilots at High Post Aerodrome in March?
Supermarine test pilots at High Post Aerodrome in March 1946: From left: Flt Lt P. Wigley DFC, Sqn Ldr W.J.G. Morgan DFC, Lt Cdr Jeffrey K. Quill AFC, Chief Test Pilot; Flt Lt Leslie R

Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
One of eighteen photographs of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, mostly passing out parades, 1943-1968. Includes visit by Marshal Alphonse Juin

Blythe House - Post Office Savings Bank, West Kensington
Blythe House, 23 Blythe Road, West Kensington - originally built as the headquarters of the Post Office Savings Bank (as shown on this card)

Dublin / O connell Street
The famous thoroughfare of O Connell Street, Dublin, Ireland, with the Post Office on the left and Nelsons Column in the centre. Date: early 1930s

The Derby 1923 by Cecil Aldin
Leaving the post at the start of the Derby of 1923, a race famously won by Papyrus, owned by Mr B. Irish and ridden by Steve Donoghue

Building of a prefabricated houses in 3 hours 1945
During the Second World War many houses were destroyed, due to this, prefabricated houses (prefabs) were built, quickly and cheaply providing quality housing with all the amenities, central heating

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Native Americans exchanging furs for goods at a Hudson Bay Company post. Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut of a Frederic Remington illustration

Tawny Owl - on post at sunset - Bedfordshire UK 008115
BB-1935 Tawny Owl - on post at sunset Bedfordshire UK Strix aluco Brian Bevan Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in anyway

Postman in the Snow
This stalwart postman does his duty and delivers the post rain or shine, or in this case, thick winter snow. No chance of exceeding the 30 mile per hour speed limit!

Birmingham Bull Ring
The old Bull Ring Centre, a notorious symbol of post World War Two modernism, now demolished. Completed in 1964; Britains first multi-storey fully enclosed shopping centre

Grand National 1978, LUCIUS No9 and Bob Davies wins from SEBASTIAN V No23 R Lamb and DRUMROAN No24 G Newman, Aintree, Liverpool, Saturday 1st April 1978

Windmill Hill, Ballyholme - a street scene with the post office on the right (with assembled people) and the windmill to the distance. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Down: Bangor)

Seven women police officers in netball team
Seven women police officers in the 1954 Met Police netball team, posing with a ball and a netball post. They include Heather Walker, Nora Blacklock, June Barrett and Pat Stacke. Date: 1954

WEST VIRGINIA: COAL MINE. The next trip. Coal miners sitting in a mining car, ready to go into the mine shaft at Maidsville, West Virginia. Photograph by Marion Post Wolcott, September 1938

CEZANNE, Paul (1839-1906). Provence Hills. 1878. Post-Impressionism. Oil on canvas. SWITZERLAND. Winterthur. Villa Flora - Hahnloser Collection

The Yellow House at Arles
GOGH, Vincent van (1853-1890). The Yellow House at Arles. Post-Impressionism. Oil on canvas

LCC-LFB Dual purpose pump escape at Lambeth HQ
A Dennis F7 pump escape at Lambeth HQ, a classic postwar fire engine newly in service in London. It was powered by a 150 bhp 5.7 litre Rolls-Royce engine and served initially at Lambeth Fire Station

Whipps Cross Hospital, Essex
Entrance to Whipps Cross Hospital, Leytonstone, Essex. Several patients can be see in beds on the open balconies. The hospital was opened in 1903 by the West Ham Union for the sick poor in the area

A Young Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill (1874-1965) photographed in 1906 at the age of 32, while he held the post of Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies

Robin
JD-13901-c Robin - on post Erithacus rubecula John Daniels Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Soho, London - Beak Street W1, viewed from Great Pulteney Street. 1973

1938 Scott Flying Squirrel motorcycle
1938 Scott Flying Squirrel 500cc twin two stroke motorcycle roadside circa 1938

Children playing in Milton Street, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Children playing in Milton Street in Belfast, Northern Ireland -- some are swinging on ropes round a lamppost, while others are riding in a go-cart. Date: 1969

Women WW1 Land Army
A poster recruiting for the Womens Land Army, showing a land girl feeding a horse and foal. Proclaiming, National Service

Signpost in Quin, County Clare, Ireland, Europe

SOROLLA, Joaqu�(1863-1923). White Horse. 1909
SOROLLA, Joaqu´┐¢(1863-1923). White Horse. 1909. Post-Impressionism. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. Madrid. Sorolla Museum

Post Office Tower
Post Office (British Telecom) Tower, one of Londons most famous landmarks, building started in 1961 and the tower was completed in July 1964. View from Percy Street, W1. Date: built 1961 - 1964

Records of first UK aerial mail service
Thepostmasters official handwrittenrecordsrelatingto thefirst UKaerialmail service from London to Windsor andWindsor to LondoninSeptember1911. 1911

Use the Air Mail Poster
GPO Poster, Use the Air Mail, The Fastest Mail. Depicting the underside of a monoplane against a blue and black sky

The Eastcastle Street Robbery, 1952
A page from the Illustrated London News, detailing the Eastcastle Street Robbery of 1952, when a Post Office van was hijacked and its contents, 200, 000 in soiled notes, were stolen

Windmill Theatre
The Windmill Theatre on the corner of Great Windmill Street and Shaftesbury Avenue, and the Lyric Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue in London

After World War Two - Heathrow Airport Facilities
After World War Two - The rather basic Heathrow Airport Reception and Communication Facilities. Date: 1946

Typesetting by hand, Morning Post newspaper, London
A roomful of male compositors in London, typesetting the pages of the Morning Post newspaper by hand

The British Empire Exhibition - Postcard back
The reverse of a postcard sent from the British Empire Exhibition of 1924, held at Wembley Park, London, showing the official exhibition stamp and event postmark!

Farm scene - Painting by Raymond Sheppard
A winding muddy track leading toward a farmyard, barns and farm buildings. Watercolour painting by Raymond Sheppard

Nobody Loves Me by George Studdy
A wet and bedraggled Bonzo, the comic canine creation of George Studdy, is found tied to a lamp post in the pouring rain and forgotten by a policeman with a torch

A Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus) perched on a fence post, above some barbed wire. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Red-shouldered Hawk - female perched on fence post - February -CT - USA
JZ-3813 Red-shouldered Hawk - female perched on fence post February -CT - USA Buteo lineatus Jim Zipp Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

First airmail letter delivered, Windsor Castle
The first airmail letter ever to be delivered is handed to the Postmaster of Windsor, to whom it is addressed, on the East Lawn of Windsor Castle

Bird - Robin in frosty setting
JD-19976-C Bird - Robin in frosty setting Erithacus rubecula John Daniels Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Post-War Recruitment
Poster asking employers to take on men who have served during the First World War, featuring a personal plea from Douglas Haig

A postman in the Scottish Highlands
A postman delivers a letter on foot in the Scottish Highlands

Robin - with Holly & Rosehips
JD-18147 ROBIN - With Holly and Rosehips UK Erithacus rubecula John Daniels Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Western Bluebird - male Columbia River Gorge. Oregon, Western USA. May. B8036(8042) Note
TOM-1033 Western Bluebird - male Columbia River Gorge. Oregon, Western USA. May. Sialia mexicana Tom & Pat Leeson Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Main Street and Post Office, Gibraltar, on a busy day. Date: 1910s

Brochure cover, W Barratt & Co Ltd, Northampton
Brochure cover design, W Barratt & Co Ltd, Northampton, advertising boots by post, with a circular illustration of the Footshape Works where the boots are made. Date: 20th century

Christmas parcels for the trenches 1916
Army Post Office in Regents Park, was receiving a rate of half a million parcels for Christmas a day for the soldiers in the trenches

Advertisement for Ford Anglia cars -- male and female models posing (Geraldine Hill, Susan Ingram and Ossie O Leary). 1959

One of the first letter boxes erected in London at the corner of Fleet Street and Farringdon Street. Wood engraving from The Illustrated London News, 24 March 1855

USH-182 BUZZARD - landing on post Buteo buteo Duncan Usher PLEASE READ OUR LICENCE TERMS
USH-182 Common / European Buzzard - landing on post Buteo buteo Duncan Usher Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Automatic Phone Exchange
Automatic telephone exchange of the British Post Office, which at that time managed the telephone network

Pensions Introduced
The scene at an English Post Office, when old age pensioners call in for the first time to receive their government pension

First Postbox, London
LETTER BOX The first Post Office letter box in London is installed at the corner of Fleet Street and Farringdon Street, at the foot of Ludgate Hill

Iranian Postman
An Iranian postman in western uniform delivers mail to a shopkeeper in traditional costume. Date: circa 1900

Interior of first postbox, London
Interior of the first Post Office letter box in London which was installed at the corner of Fleet Street and Farringdon Street, at the foot of Ludgate Hill. Date: 1855

Custom House and Post Office, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA. Date: 1905

USA, Georgia, Tybee Island, Fences and lighthouse

The Post Office and Library, Greendale Road, Port Sunlight. Date: circa 1910

Spain (1493). Letter of the queen Isabel I to Christopher Columbus (5th September 1493). SPAIN. Sevilla. General Archives of the Indies

Netherlands, South Holland, Amsterdam, Street Map

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