Near this spot the General Letter Office stood in Post House Yard, 1653 - 1666. Here were struck in 1661 the first postmarks in the world.
{There is then a symbol about the size of a capital letter: a circle divided with a horizontal line with "AP" in the top half and "19" in the lower half. This is the post mark for 19th April the date postmarks were first used.}
The Corporation of the City of London
EC2, Prince's Street
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
General Letter Office
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Inked date stamps were at first called 'Bishops marks' after their inventor, ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
General Letter Office
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Spike lived in Finchley and often visited Stephens' House - then called Avenue House. Together with the extensive grounds it had been lef...
Not a memorial really, more a mark of ownership.
On the ground of this court two circles are marked out in the flags, one has the column at the centre, the other is centred on the Lamb B...
Rudolf Nureyev, 1938 - 1993, ballet dancer, lived here. English Heritage
H. M. Bateman, 1887 - 1970, cartoonist, lived here 1910 - 1914. English Heritage