Overview

This wonderful new collection of four images from our archive illustrates the theme of delivering the mail by sea. The set includes photographs of a mail boat and a floating Post Office as well as an original GPO poster and classic artwork by Harold Sandys Williamson.

The postcard images are:

BPMA-PC-18a Loading mails at the Docks in London, 1934, Harold Sandys Williamson
BPMA-PC-18b Uploading Icelandic mails from a mail boat at Leith docks, 1934, Photographer unknown
BPMA-PC-18c Keeping in touch – the Post Office at the Docks, 1962, S. Lee
BPMA-PC-18d Floating Post Office at Liverpool Docks, 1934, Photographer unknown

This is BPMA Postcard set no. 18.