Mail has always travelled at pace. In the 19th century, when horse-drawn coaches delivered our letters, the drivers were loath to stop!
This brass coloured, metal, miniature posthorn is engraved in faint lettering, 'J Higman, Maker, 151 Strangeways, Manchester’. The mail coach guards blew a horn, like this one, to alert other road users to give way to the oncoming mail coach. The sound of the horn also alerted inns of a coach’s imminent arrival.
1700s John Pratt writes to John Palmer to inform him that he hasn’t been appointed to Government (August 1782), (from the private papers of John Palmer)
1800s Horse’s sicknote (1898)
1900s Maritime Heritage – Nelson and the Victory (1982)
1900s Mobile post office and tractor (trailer: 1937, tractor: 1954)
2000s Quad bikes
1900s Titanic telegrams sent by the White Star Line to the GPO in London (15 April 1912)