My mother's written recollections of
life in her childhood in the early 1900s described the postmen
and telegraph boys of the period, but did not mention the post office. I
have tried to discover what an Edwardian post office was like from museums and old books and
pictures. This page illustrates what I have discovered so far. If you can add
anything or correct a misunderstanding, do please let me know.
Inside a late Victorian or Edwardian Post Office - a
picture from an old book in my mother's effects.
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Posting a letter in a Victorian or Edwardian post box
- detail from a picture in Fagans Museum of Welsh Life.
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Life-size reproduction Edwardian Post Office in Milestones Museum,
Basingstoke. |
 A Victorian or Edwardian pillar box / post box -
photographed in Fagans Museum of Welsh Life..
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Model of a post boy collecting a parcel for
delivery - photographed in Milton Keynes Museum. (The accuracy of
museums' mock-ups cannot be guaranteed, as I have noticed serious errors
in mock-ups elsewhere - hence my preference for photographs from the
actual period.)
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Posting a letter in the 1890s - which would have been similar to
in the early 1900s. From a magazine in Bath Postal Museum. |
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Above: Edwardian or Victorian Post Office scales for
weighing parcels.
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Above:
Edwardian postage stamps.
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Left: Victorian post box of the type let into a wall.
Note the embossed VR at the top, standing for Victoria Regina. Photographed
in Nidderdale Museum.
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This website Join me in the 1900s is also known as
Join me in the 1900's and is ©
Pat Cryer.
If you have information or an old photo which would illustrate
this page I would very much appreciate a copy.
Pat Cryer
