Bath Postal Museum

Infobox Museum
name = Bath Postal Museum


established = 1979
location = Bath, Somerset
map_type=Somerset
latitude= 51.3794
longitude= -2.3670
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website = [http://www.bathpostalmuseum.co.uk/index.html Museum Website] The Bath Postal Museum is in Bath, Somerset.

The museum was founded in 1979 by Audrey and Harold Swindells in the basement of their house. In 1984 it moved to a home in Broad Street. This was the site of Bath's main Post Office from 1822 to 1854 and the building in which the first recorded posting of a Penny Black took place on 2 May 1840. [cite web |url=http://www.bathpostalmuseum.co.uk/about.html |title=About us |accessdate=2007-10-27 |format= |work=Bath Postal Museum ] It has been designated by English Heritage as a grade II listed building. [cite web | title=Bath Postal Museum | work=Images of England | url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/search/details.aspx?id=444586 | accessdate=2007-10-27]

The museums collections include: biographies of key figures involved with the development of the Post Office and connected with Bath, such as Ralph Allen, John Palmer and Thomas Moore Musgrave; a history of the post from 2000BC to the current day and a history of the British postbox.

Artefacts on display including quills and ink wells, stamp boxes, post boxes, post horns, clay tablets, strip maps, model mail coaches and, letters and postcards. There is also a replica Victorian post office

References

External links

* [http://www.bathpostalmuseum.co.uk/index.html Museum Website]

ee also

*Postal Museum