Get the official Twitpic for iPhone app

BPMA

@postalheritage

The British Postal Museum & Archive - the leading resource for British postal heritage. Based in Clerkenwell, London.

Photos and Videos by @postalheritage

  • Timeline
  • Gallery

More on how to post eggs, a #poster from the #RoyalMail #archives demonstrating egg wrapping

Dipping in to the #RoyalMail #archives we find this #Easter treat - How to Post Eggs:

#Photo from the #archives - Postman on mountain road near Derwent Water, 1930s:

A visualisation of the new home for our #museum and #archives by :

Bad news in , Ironbridge yesterday:

#Photo from the #archives - A postman walks across a stone bridge, Grange, 1937:

Postman delivering mail at Aston Villa football ground, 1935. #AVFC

Happy St David's Day! Photo: Postman next to his van collects mail from member of public, near Rhyddu, Wales, 1934

Postman crossing stream on wooden bridge, Muker, Yorkshire, 1930s:

Like says, this is the closest you'll get to a #happypancakeday on #stamps & #philately:

#Stamps issued to commemorate Charles Dickens' death centenary in 1970. #philately

This was the King's correspondence, as seen in Buckingham Palace Post Office, 1935:

We can't get enough #houseofwindsorstamps today! Here's the clerks in Buckingham Palace Post Office, 1935

#Photo - Postman parking bike outside thatched cottages in a village green, Woodbastwick Village, Norfolk

#Photo from the #archives - Postmen in the China and Japan divisional packet section, sort items into frames, 1938

Escher-esque #photo from #archives: Mail van horses are led up ramps inside stables of Messers McNamara & Co, 1949