We did not find the website of The British Postal Museum & Archive terribly helpful whereas The Wargrave Local History Society is far more informative and with reference to the GLO says: "Charles II appointed Henry Bishop as the first Postmaster General who established the General Letter Office. All the post went to London, where clerks calculated the charge to be paid by the recipient".
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General Letter Office
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General Letter Office
Near this spot the General Letter Office stood in Post House Yard, 1653 - 166...
Other Subjects
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Sir Clarendon Hyde
Sir Clarendon Hyde, the deputy chairman of the Metropolitan Railway Company in 1920.
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The Establishment Club
Peter Cook said this was modelled on "those wonderful Berlin cabarets which did so much to stop the rise of Hitler and prevent the outbreak of the Second World War". Lenny Bruce, Barry Humphries, ...
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First postmarks in the world
Inked date stamps were at first called 'Bishops marks' after their inventor, Henry Bishop, Postmaster General, 1660-1663. The post office was receiving complaints about late arrival of the post. ...
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