Credit for this entry to:
Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This stone was laid by the Right Honourable Henry Cecil Raikes, M. P., Her Majesty's Postmaster General, on the 20th of November, 1890, the jubilee year of uniform inland penny postage.
EC1, St Martin's le Grand
The building with the plaque, to the right of our photo, was the General Post Office (GPO) headquarters 1894 - 1984.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Penny Post - 1890 jubilee
First established in London in 1680 by William Dockwra and his business partn...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Penny Post - 1890 jubilee
MP, Postmaster General, in 1886 - 91. One of the first British politicians ...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Penny Post - 1890 jubilee
Painted in the authentic green then in use, this is a reproduction of the Pen...
The 'done' on the plaque is, we're pretty certain, a guerrilla sticker, as un...
Joyce Grenfell, 1910 - 1979, entertainer and writer, lived here in flat no.8,...
