Bath Postal Museum - Northgate Street, Bath, Somerset - History Museums on Waymarking.com

"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.[1] It has been designated by English Heritage as a grade II listed building.[2]

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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Theme: Postal History Street Address: Bath Postal Museum 27 Northgate Street, Bath, BA1 1AJ England Food Court: no Gift Shop: yes Hours of Operation: Mondays - 11 am – 5 pm Tuesdays - 11 am – 5 pm Wednesdays – CLOSED ALL DAY Thursdays – 2 pm – 5 pm Fridays - 2 pm – 5 pm Saturdays - 2 pm – 5 pm Last Entry: 4.30pm. https://bathpostalmuseum.org.uk/visitor-info.html Cost: 4.00 (listed in local currency) Museum Size: Small Relevant Web Site: [Web Link]

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