A number of privately owned telegraph companies operated in Britain from 1846 onwards. In 1868 these all came under the control of the newly formed GPO (General Post Office). With the invention of the telephone in 1876 the GPO began to provide telephone services from some of its telegraph exchanges. In 1969 the GPO, a government department, became the Post Office. Telecommunications was split off, as British Telecom, in 1981.
2022: Londonist have posted a very useful page on phone boxes.
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British Telecom
Son of Sir Ambrose Heal of the Heals furniture shop which was established in 1810. It moved from Rathbone Place to Tottenham Court Road in 1818. Anthony became a director in 1936 and the Chairman...
Born and raised in Dublin as Hilary Mary Frayne. Married Galen Weston in 1966. They moved to Toronto in 1974, and HW became a Canadian citizen. Lieutenant Governor of Ontario 1997 - 2002.
Person, Commerce, Politics & Administration, Canada, Ireland
The records of the founders of Fortnum and Mason are not too clear. In 1707 a William Fortnum is said to have become a footman to Queen Anne and at about the same time to have founded a grocery bus...
We believe this is/was a commercial organisation with offices in Gerrard Street.
Established to maintain London Bridge. Named after Bridge House, the original administrative and maintenance centre located where St Olaf House now is. Originally funded by tolls from London Bridge...
A wooden church is recorded here in 1062. In the twelfth century a later stone church functioned as the church to the Archbishops' London lodgings next door, at Lambeth Palace. Largely rebuilt 185...
Architectural sculptor. Born Westminster. Son of architectural sculptor Samuel Poole and brother of painter Samuel Jr. He studied with G. F. Watts and was a Studio assistant on Physical Energy. Pro...
Author and political activist. Born China as Li Yaotang. Ba Jin was his pen name. Learnt and advocated Esperanto. Spent 1927-8 in France. Returned to Shanghai. From 1983 suffered with Parkinson's...
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