Victorian Post Boxes - Postal Museum - Bath, Somerset - Victorian Post Boxes on Waymarking.com

A collection of 5 Victorian Post Boxes and an Edward VII box inside the Bath Postal Museum on Northgate Street, Bath.

The collection includes one of the first design of box 1857 - 1858, the 'improved' box of 1859 - 1860 with hood, And a large box 1861 - 1870. There is also a model with revised flap 1871 - 1878, and the first type with changeable collection plate.

"The museum was founded in 1979 by Audrey and Harold Swindells in the basement of their house in Great Pulteney Street. In 1985, it moved to a home in Broad Street. This was the site of Bath's main Post Office from 1822 to 1854 and the building in which the first recorded posting of a Penny Black took place on 2 May 1840. It has been designated by English Heritage as a grade II listed building.

The museum's collections include: biographies of key figures involved with the development of the Post Office and connected with Bath, such as Ralph Allen, John Palmer and Thomas Moore Musgrave; a history of the post from 2000BC to the current day and a history of the British postbox.

Artefacts on display included quills and ink wells, stamp boxes, post boxes, post horns, clay tablets, strip maps, model mail coaches, and letters and postcards. There was also a replica Victorian post office.

Due to vastly increased rent from 2003, the museum had to move out of the Broad Street building and on 7 November 2006 it reopened on a much smaller scale in the basement of the post office building at 27 Northgate Street."

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There is a fee of £4 to enter the museum.

Tell us about the area the post box is situated.: In a display inside Bath Postal Museum Condition of the box: Good/Average/Poor: Good Is this post box still in use?: No Is VR embossed on the post box or is it an "anonymous" box?: Yes Any other embossed lettering, such as manufacturer?: Smith & Hawkes Birmingham Manufacturer Inscription: Smith & Hawkes, Eagle Foundry Broad St Birmingham (1856-71)

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