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  1. Gerard_RM

    LETTER ARRIVES OVER 100 YEARS LATE

    This was quite a common thing when I was with Royal Mail, people found old letters and popped them into a post box to see what happened. It was even more common with postcards.
  2. Gerard_RM

    General Post Office 1890 Victoria Square

    I remember changing the lamps in the front office about 1975/78 when I was an apprentice Post Office Engineer. We worked off tall stepladders and the globes were about 600mm diameter - scary. So the Post Office was still in the original place into the late 70s at least. I also visited the vacant...
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