Postal Museum
From Graces Guide
The Postal Museum, 15-20 Phoenix Place, London, WC1X 0DA
This is a fascinating museum. Visitors can take a trip on the underground Mail Rail train.
Museum website here.
1996 The National Postal Museum was founded. The collection contained the world’s very first, first-day-cover, that of the "Penny Black". It also included 1839 Treasury Essays for pre-paid postage, some of Rowland Hill's letters and unique proofs and studies of stamps such as the Twopenny Blue and the Penny Red.
2004 The British Postal Museum & Archive established as an independent charity to care for five centuries of Royal Mail history.
2016 Re-launched as The Postal Museum.
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Sources of Information
- Website [1]