Bain News Service,, publisher.
Parcels division, Gen'l P.O., London
[between 1910 and 1915]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Subjects:
London
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.09795
Call Number: LC-B2- 2299-1
23 Февраль 2010, 07:36 Tim Johnson Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Basket World, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
23 Февраль 2010, 08:40 swanq
This is probably the Mount Pleasant sorting
office, which was in a former prison. See www.postalheritage.org.uk/exhibitions/mountpl
easant/worki...
which has photos that show similar lights.
23 Февраль 2010, 23:00 ART NAHPRO I visited Mount Pleasant Sorting Office in 1978 or so to see the famous Post Office Underground railway in operation . It linked the main sorting offices with London train stations. In Victorian times it was a pneumatic train, driven by compressed air. In te 1970s it was electric .The post office was huge then too hundreds of sorting staff coming and going. Amazing place.
24 Февраль 2010, 14:42 bean_is_a_carrot There's some info about the underground "mail rail" here: www.postalheritage.org.uk/history/downloads/B PMA_Info_She...Also, a short film about it here: uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj0-0q6bQOc
25 Февраль 2010, 05:02 ART NAHPRO -the You Tube clip is exactly as I remember it...
25 Февраль 2010, 17:41 blondon1234
It's Mount Pleasant (which by the way, is
still going strong) it's the Agricultural
Hall on Liverpool Road, which is now the
Business Design Centre (which, rather
confusingly is on Upper Street - they built a
new entrance at what was the rear of the
existing building).
GRAHAM TAYLOR
26 Февраль 2010, 06:29 Pete (LOC P&P) Thanks! We'll fix the source data and reload the description.
27 Февраль 2010, 01:19 Steven Beard LRPS I agree with clearbrian as my sister worked their for most of the eighties
27 Февраль 2010, 15:53 British Postal Museum & Archive Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Britain's Postal Heritage, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
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