The General Post Office (East & West)

London

Image and text scanned by Nathalie Chevalier.

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The building on the right, is on the Ionic style and was built in 1825-29 from designs by Smirke, it is 390 feet in length.

The whole of the ordinary postal business is conducted here.

The Telegraph Department or building on the left was erected in 1870-73 at a cost of �485,000.

The Instrument Galleries measure 300 x 90 feet and contain over 500 Instruments, the number of telegrams conveyed annually exceeds 90 millions.[text accompanying photograph]

Bibliography

The volume containing these images by an unidentified photographer bears the imprint "With H. and C. F. Feist's compliments" but no name, date, or place of publication, though the Feists were dealers in port wine, and Plate 30 demonstrates that the photograph must have been taken after 1902, and John R. Mendel offers evidence that it dates before mid-1906 [GPL].

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