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
We did not find the website of The British Postal Museum & Archive terri...
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
In addressing the 'square mile' concept Londonist has provided a potted histo...
Borough of Lewisham Thankfull Sturdee, 1852 - 1934, local historian and photographer, lived here, 1900-1903.
AMDG stands for “Ad maiorem Dei gloriam”, the Latin motto of the Catholic Jesuits, meaning "For the greater glory of God"
The plaque is on the railings below the Royal Society of Arts one. Dec 2020: our colleague Alan Patient spotted that this plaque has gon...
Left to right: Mackmurdo, Williams, Thornycroft. All in a similar design so presumably erected by the same organisation - possibly a form...
