The Bristol Royal Mail, by R. Tombs. Return to Book Index. The History of the British Post Office by J. Hemmeon (1. 91. 2)The King's Post by Robert Charles Tombs (1. THE BRISTOL ROYAL MAIL. All rights reserved. The. Bristol Royal Mail. POST, TELEGRAPH, ANDTELEPHONE. BYR. TOMBS,Postmaster of Bristol,Ex- Controller of the London Postal Service. BRISTOL: J. Arrowsmith, 1. Quay Street. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. DEVELOPMENT OF THE MAIL SERVICES. The Isles of Fear The Truth About The Philippines by Katherine Mayo. ANTARCTIC BOOK NOTES Outside of a penguin, A book is man's best friend. Inside of a penguin, It's too dark to read.' —apologies to Groucho Marx.Chapter II. MAIL COACH ERA. CHAPTER III. OLD MAIL GUARDS. CHAPTER IV. VICTORIAN ERA, 1. MAIL TRANSPORT BY RAILWAY. TRAVELLING POST OFFICES. CHAPTER V. BRISTOL POSTMASTERS. CHAPTER VI. NOTABLE POST OFFICE SERVANTS OF BRISTOL ORIGIN. CHAPTER VII. POST OFFICE BUILDINGS. CHAPTER VIII. SIR ROWLAND. HILL. RECENT PROGRESS. CHAPTER IX. BRISTOL AS A MAIL PORT. CHAPTER X. POSTAL SERVICE. STAFF: ITS COMPOSITION, DUTIES,RESPONSIBILITIES. HOMEWORK: I'm a student and my parent/teacher wants me to use the CPRR Museum to do a school project. How do I get pictures for my homework assignment? VOLUME OF WORK. 1. CHAPTER XI. CHRISTMAS AND ST. VALENTINE SEASONS. CHAPTER XII. PUBLIC OFFICE: ITS BUSINESS. Dominating the headlines in October 2015. Fresh off their victory at Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series. Get information, facts, and pictures about Trinidad and Tobago at Encyclopedia.com. Make research projects and school reports about Trinidad and Tobago easy with. 9781436885935 1436885930 Rowland Bradshaw - His Struggles and Adventures on the Way to Fame (1848), Thomas Hall, S. Fletcher 9780739007402 0739007408 Simply. 4 November 2016 by Daniel THE SAVINGS BANK. PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS. CHAPTER XIII. TELEGRAPHS. EXPRESS DELIVERY. CHAPTER XIV. TELEGRAPH MESSENGERS. CHAPTER XV. LETTER DELIVERY SYSTEM. POSTMEN: THEIR DUTIES AND RECREATIONS. CHAPTER XVI. POST LETTER BOXES: POSITION, VIOLATION, PECULIAR USES. CHAPTER XVII. RURAL DISTRICT SUB- POSTMASTERS. INCIDENTS. 2. 57. CHAPTER XVIII. GENERAL FREE DELIVERY OF LETTERS. CHAPTER XIX. RETURNED LETTER OFFICE. ILLUSTRATIONS. THE POSTMASTER'S OFFICE, BRISTOLPage 0. RALPH ALLEN OF CROSS POST FAME6 HIS RESIDENCE AT PRIOR PARK, BATH9 HIS TOWN HOUSE IN BATH1. HIS TOMB AT CLAVERTON1. JOHN PALMER, INTRODUCER OF MAIL COACHES1. OLD ENGLISH . EDWARD BIDDLE2. LETTER BOX AT WINTERBOURNE2. HANNAH BREWER, THE BITTON POSTWOMAN2. PREFACE. In these days when books on every conceivable. United Kingdom which contributes by its. This present. compilation has, therefore, been undertaken with that. Bristol Post Office. County and City, and its surrounding. Post Office history, and. Bristol is not, unfortunately. The profit which may accrue from the publication. The Bristol Royal Mail will be devoted exclusively. Rowland Hill Memorial and Benevolent Fund. Her Most Gracious. Majesty the Queen- Empress, who is about to show. Convalescent Home. It also affords assistance. Superannuation Acts. The fund. is managed by a body of trustees, who are assisted. Post Office. The trustees are well- known. London, to whose benevolent efforts on. Sometimes a deserving and distressed Post. Office servant has not served long enough to qualify. A pension. even if it should prove to be sufficient for the pensioner's. There are. more than eighty- one thousand, and, counting those. Post. Office; and in comparison with the number of. In the. period since 1. Bristol district . Herbert. Joyce, C. B.; Forty Years at the Post Office, by Mr. Baines, C. B.; The Royal Mail, by Mr. Wilson. Hyde; and from St. Martin's- le- Grand Magazine. Latimer's Annals of Bristol. Thanks are due. also to Mr. Norris Mathews, the Bristol City. Librarian, for his courtesy in permitting and facilitating. Public Library. to Mr. Spear, Secretary to the Chamber of. Commerce; to the proprietors of the Times and. Mirror, for allowing inspection of their old files; and. Mr. Walbrook, of the Bath. Chronicle; to the proprietor, Black and White, and. THE BRISTOL ROYAL MAIL. CHAPTER I. 1. 53. DEVELOPMENT OF THE MAIL SERVICES. RALPH ALLEN. It appears that before Post Offices were established. It is recorded that such a special messenger. Bristol to London in the year 1. Thus in the year 1. Ireland—Irish firms being then considered. Letters. could only circulate from one post road to another. London, and such circulation through. London involved additional rates of postage. Bristol. and Exeter are less than eighty miles apart, but. London, and. were charged, if single, 6d., thus: —one rate of 3d. This was in conformity. Charles II. From Bristol. Mondays and Fridays, starting. The posts left Exeter on. Wednesdays and Saturdays at 4. Bristol at the same hour on the. Under this cross post plan, the. In. three or four years the new post produced a profit. In 1. 67. 8 Provost Campbell established. Glasgow to Edinburgh. There were, however, only a mere handful. At the end of the same. Post Office authorities in London, after. Government to establish a . Up to that time. the Bristol letters to Chester, Shrewsbury, Worcester. Gloucester had been carried round. London under the system already described. The. effect of this system, as on the Bristol and Exeter. London, and at a cheaper rate. Moved. by the success of the new cross posts from Bristol. Exeter, the Treasury consented to the starting. Chester service. The Post Office reported. Treasury in March, 1. Chester service. had been about . The accounts of Henry Pyne. Bristol postmaster, appended to the report in. State papers, show that so far as this part of. The Devon. clothiers had a considerable trade with the wool. Cirencester, which town. Gloucester. and London, with a branch postboy mail to. Wotton- under- Edge. By there being no direct postal. Bristol and Wotton- under- Edge. Exeter and. Cirencester had to be sent vi. All. that was needed to shorten the transit from fourteen. Bristol in direct communication. Wotton, the expense being estimated at. The Government declined to. Prior Park, Bath.(Formerly residence of Ralph Allen.)By permission of the Proprietor of . Blazey Highway, in Cornwall. St. In. 1. 71. 0 he was transferred as a clerk to Bath, and on. March, 1. 71. 2, he became postmaster of that. Mary Collins, and in that. Bristol and Exeter Cross Road Post, previously. Joseph Quash, postmaster of Exeter. In. 1. 72. 0 Ralph Allen contracted to farm the cross- country. The London Journal of August 2. Another. incident of the kind worthy of mentioning occurred. September, 1. 73. The bag then carried off by. Newgate, and a. second reprieve despatched after the robbery became. Mayor's inauguration. About 1. 73. 2 the Bristol riding boys were deprived. This was done because the postboys. In connection with Ralph. Allen's . In 1. 74. Bristol citizens to appeal to the Ministry for an. London, which was still limited to three days per. Yielding to this pressure, Allen converted. June. 1. 74. 1. The post began to run every day of the. Sunday, between London and Bristol. Allen's expense. between London and Wells, Bridgwater, Taunton. Wellington, Tiverton, and Exeter, through Bristol. There was a lawsuit, and the. Bristol merchants won it. A Government notification in the local newspapers. September, 1. 75. Southern Counties and. Bristol. In future a postboy was to leave Salisbury. Mondays at six o'clock in the morning, to arrive. Bath (a distance of about thirty- nine miles) at. Bath for Bristol. On Wednesdays and Fridays. Salisbury was in the evening. By. this arrangement letters from Portsmouth were. Ralph Allen's improvements had great influence. Post Office services in this western city. The. profits on the contracts enabled Allen to take up. Prior Park, Bath, one of the finest. Italian houses in England, in addition to having a. City. It is said that the. Mansions so lordly are not for the hardest and. Post Office field of present. Nowadays an introducer. Ralph. Allen, John Palmer, or Rowland Hill's great. Post. Office, to be contented on retirement with no more. Allen benefited the Bristol postal district in. Post Office. services when he built the bridge over the Avon. Newton- St.- Loe at a cost of . He was. buried in Claverton Churchyard, near Bath. The. inscription on his tomb runs thus: —. In full hope of everlasting happiness. Redeemer, Jesus Christ. He. was a great friend and benefactor of Fielding, and. Tom Jones the novelist has gratefully drawn Mr. Pope has. celebrated one of his principal virtues—unassuming. I suppose he cannot be much under. His wife is low, with grey hair, and of. His handwriting was very curious; he. The lack of all show about his garb seems to. Philip Thicknesse, the. Bath Guides, for. Allen's . Speaking of the want of improvement. Post Office business was conducted, a local. Weeks, who entered upon . On the London and Bristol. A letter. despatched from Bristol or Bath on Monday was not. London until Wednesday morning. On. the other hand a letter confided to the stage coach of. Monday reached its destination on Tuesday morning. Bristol traders and. He had learnt from the merchants. Bristol what a boon it would be if they could. London in fourteen. It is. said, however, that it was the sight of Ralph. Allen's grand place at Prior Park, and the knowledge. Allen's money had been made, which. Palmer the attempt to bring a. John Palmer was lessee and. Bath and Bristol theatres, and went. He devised a scheme, and Pitt, the. Prime Minister of the day, who warmly approved. London and Bristol. On Saturday, the 3. July. 1. 78. 4, an agreement was signed in connection with. Palmer's scheme under which, in consideration. On its first journey. Bristol,—not from London as generally. Palmer was present to see it off. A. well- armed mail guard in uniform was in charge of. Bristol to London in sixteen hours. Only four. passengers were at first carried by each . The immediate effect was. The. coaches were small, light vehicles, drawn by a pair of. An old painting. represents the Bath and Bristol mail trotting along. One coach left Bristol at 4. Bath a couple of hours. General Post Office, London. The down coach. started from London at 8. Palmer gave. up his theatrical enterprises and entered the service. Post Office as Comptroller at a salary of. Before Palmer's mail coaches. London at all hours of. General Post. Office at that hour. In London the arrival of all. Palmer, with his regard for the Bristol. Bristol mails distributed. St. Martin's- le- Grand, but. Upon the beginning of Palmer's system on the. Bristol road a marvellous superstructure was raised. A splendid mail service was. One result. was that the . In July, 1. 78. 7, the mails from. Bristol to Birmingham and the North, previously. The. London to Bristol coach was stopped by other means. Palmer, in defiance of the. Postmaster- General. In Bonner and Middleton's (weekly) Journal for. February, 1. 79. 2, is an announcement to the.
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