Memorial

Plaque: Penny post - Westminster

Inscription

City of Westminster
This building was the site of the Westminster office of the penny post and then the two-penny post, 1794 - 1834.

W1, Gerrard Street, 39

This building was the first to operate solely as a public post office in Westminster.

It was this article in Londonist that drew our attention to this further addition to the plaque bonanza in Gerrard Street.

This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Penny post - Westminster

Westminster office of the penny post and then the two-penny post. The first ...

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 - Westminster

Created in 1965 from the former area of the Metropolitan Boroughs of St Maryl...