General Sir Frederic Williamson was head of the Royal Engineers Postal Section on the Home Front during World War One. He later was the first Director of Postal Services. It was under Williamson’s chairmanship that the first two British mechanical sorting machines were installed at Brighton in 1935.
1900s ‘Don’t blindfold the mail’ by George Brzezinski (‘Karo’, 1954)
1900s ‘Post Office Lines of Communication’ by Jan Le Witt and George Him (c.1940)
1800s The first postage stamp; Queen Victoria 1d black – the Penny Black (1840)
1800s The River Post
1900s British Empire Medal winner Miss Ethel Kate Bellamy (31 December 1966)
1900s Edward VIII – the Royal Cypher that never was