The post office and its story - Edward Bennett

Abbot's Cliff, [191]
Aberdeen, [72], [73], [80]
Accountant-General, [45], [55]
Addresses on letters, [108], [111], [115], [120], [252]
Admiralty, [220]
Advertising postal facilities, [85], [323]
Aldersgate Street, [129]
Allen, Ralph, [36]
Alphabet keeper, [45]
America, [64]
Anglo-American Telegraph Company, [160]
Animals by post, [323]
Annals of the Road, [27]
Annuities, Post Office, [143]
Architecture of Post Offices, [233], [302]
Army Post Office—
- Crimea, [130]
- Early history, [336]
- Duties of, [337]
Arran Islands, [217]
Assistant Secretaries, [261]
Associations, their recognition by Postmaster-General, [262]
Atlantic Ferry, [209], [212]
Athens, [81]
Australia—
- First mail service to, [215]
- Postal service, [258]
- Articles refused by post, [328]
Austria, [160]
Awards Committee, [206]
Aylesbury Coach Road, [89]

Bagnigge Wells, [85]
Baines, F. E., C.B., [32], [265]
Balloons, [235]
Balmoral Castle, [216]
Band conveyors, [60]
Baptism, commercial idea of, [150]
Barnet, [98]
Bartholomew's Hospital, [58]
Batavia, [213]
Bath, [22], [36]
Baudot system—
- Introduction, [155]
- Circuit, [160]
- Working of, [167]
Bawtry, [281]
Bedminster Town Penny Bank, [325]
Bees by post, [323]
Belfast, [279]
Belgium—
- Parcel Post to, [84]
- Money Orders to, [131]
- Wires to, [160]
- Telephone to, [191]
Bell, A. M., [182]
Bell, Graham, [182]
Berlin, [327]
Berne—
- First Congress, [225]
- Treaty of, [226]
- Second Congress, [228]
- Monument, [230]
Bicycles, [99]
Birmingham, [31], [35], [70], [72], [164], [279]
Blackfriars Power Station, [162], [169]
“Black Swan,” 44
Blackwood, Sir Arthur, K.C.B., [264]
Blind Section, [62], [89], [90]
Bombay, [215], [216]
Bousseul, Charles, [181]
Boxmoor, [72]
Boy messengers—
- Qualifications, [339]
- Explanations, [341]-346
Bradshaw, [231]
Bright's Bell, [155]
Brighton, [75], [99], [100]
Brindisi, [215]
Brisbane, [216]
Bristol, [21], [279], [280]
Britannia, [213]
British Central Africa—
- Postal Service, [255]
- Postmaster's duties, [257]
British Islands packet services, [217]
British Post Offices abroad, [205]
Brontë, Charlotte, [67]
Brussels, [191]
“Bull and Mouth,” 27, [50]
Bullion, carriage of, [209]
Burdett, Sir Francis, [34]
Burravoe, [81]
Buxton, Right Hon. Sydney, M.P., [201], [262]

Cable conveyors, [60]
Cadiz, [81]
Cairo, [215]
Calais, [220]
Caledonian Railway, [73]
Camels as carriers of mails, [246], [254]
Campania, [213]
Campbell, Lord, [23]
Campbeltown, [285]
Canada—
- Parcel Post, [84]
- Money Orders, [131]
- Imperial Penny Post, [258]
Canary Islands, [237]
Cape Colony—
- Money Orders, [131]
- Ocean mail service, [214], [216]
- Post Office stones, [255]
Cape Grisnez, [191]
Card system for accounts, [244]
Cardiff, [279]
Carlisle, [75]
Cash on Delivery System, [253]
Cats in Post Office, [95]
Central News Agency, [165]
Central Telegraph Office—
- Building, [67]
- Transmitting centre, [159]
- First office, [161]
- Interior, [163]
- Sunday arrangements, [169]
- Staff, [173]
Chamberlain, Right Hon. Joseph, M.P., [51], [247], [263]
Channel Fleet, letters to, [116]
Channel Islands—
- Cable to, [156]
- Mail service, [218]
Chesham, [104]
China—
- Mails to, [220]
- Post Office, [244]
- Articles refused, [328]
Christian World, [298]
Christ's Hospital, [58]
Civil Service, secret of success in, [272]
Clerical Establishment, [268]
Clerks of the Roads, [45], [125]
Clifden, [178]
Cloak Lane, [43]
Coaches, [22]
Coaching inns, [98]
Coin by post, [125], [127]
Coke, Lady Mary, [304]
Coldbath Fields Prison, [85]
Coleridge, S. T., [33]
Colonial Office, [51]
Compensation, [59]
Comptroller and Accountant-General, [265]
Concentrator switches, [168]
Connaught, [218]
Consols—
- Popularisation of, [140]
- Amount held in Post Office, [141]
- Facilities for purchase, [141]
- Reduction of interest on, [143]
Constantinople, [84], [130], [328]
Continental Mail, [75], [222]
Cooke, [155]
Cornwall, [75]
Cowper, William, [21]
“Creed” system, [155], [166]
Crimean War, [130]
Cuba, [328]
Cunard Company, [212]

Daily Mail, [108], [193]
Daily Telegraph, [245]
Date stamping, [61]
David Copperfield, [281]
Dead Letter Office, [109], [118]
Deal, [33]
Denmark, [328]
De Quincey, Thomas, [28], [102]
De Saint Marceaux, [230]
Diamond Jubilee Reforms, [84], [246], [258]
Dickens, Charles, [28]
Dickson, Mrs. Elizabeth, [314]
Dieppe, [220]
Dockree support system, [88]
Dockwra, [35], [290]
Don Manuel Alvarez Espriella, [210]
Dover, [220]
Dover Road, [19], [208]
Dryden, [45]
Dublin, [218]
Duncan, Rev. Henry, [138]
Dunfermline, [287]

Eastbourne, [284]
East India Company, [247]
Edinburgh, [23], [32], [36]
Edinburgh Castle, [216]
Edison Telephone Company, [183], [184]
Egypt, [84], [215], [336]
Electric stamping machines, [61]
Electric Telegraph Company, [161]
Elephant as carrier of mails, [246], [249]
Engineer-in-Chief, [267]
Engineers, [195], [196]
Enniskillen, [284]
Etruria, [213]
Euston, [72], [74], [80], [89]
Exchange Telegraph Company, [165]
Exeter, [25]
Express Delivery Service, [96], [323]

Factories (see [Post Office Factories])
Fair Isle, [220]
Fair Wages Resolution, [206]
Falkland Islands, [328]
Falmouth—
- As packet station, [209]
- 100 years ago, [210]
- P. and O. service, [214]
Farmers' telephones, [193]
Fawcett, Right Hon. H., [85], [262]
Ferry mail services, [81]
Fiji Islands, [216]
Fishguard, [217]
“Fleece Tavern,” [44]
Flushing, [75], [220]
Flying Coaches, [22]
Folkestone, [75], [220]
Foot posts, [21]
Foreign Parcel Post, articles refused, [328]
Foreign postal rates, [223]
Foreign Post Office methods, [231]
Forman, H. Buxton, C.B., [265]
Forty Years at Post Office, [265]
Foula, [220]
Founder's Court, E.C., [161]
France—
- Money Orders to, [131]
- Wires to, [160]
- Postal methods, [234]
- Savings Bank, [235]
- Telegraphs, [236]
- Parcel Post, [236]
Franks, [34]
Freeling, Sir Francis, [264], [268], [278]

Garibaldi, [41]
Gavey, Sir John, K.C.B., [267]
Gell System, [166]
General Election—
- Effects on telegraph system, [171], [204]
General Post Office North, [55], [67]
General Post Office South, [55], [67]
General Post Office West, [67], [161]
Germany—
- Parcel Post, [84]
- Money Orders, [131]
- Wires to, [160]
- Postal methods, [232]
- Post Offices, [232]
Ghosts seen from motors, [107]
Gibraltar, [81], [84], [214]
Gladstone, Right Hon. W. E.—
- Anglican Orders, [132]
- Post Office Savings Bank, [138]
- Home Role Bill telegrams, [171]
Glasgow—
- Early charges to, [32]
- Telephone, [191]
- Postmaster, [279]
- Postmen, [313]
Grand Magazine, [270]
Great Eastern Railway, [75]
Great North Road, [22], [32], [98], [282]
Great Western, [212]
Great Western Railway, [73], [75]
Greenwich Observatory, [170]
Grievances against the Post Office, [330]

Halfpenny Post, [64], [320]
Harkara, [249], [250]
Haroldswick, [80], [81]
Harwich, [209], [220]
Hasker, Thomas, [24], [27], [30]
Heaton, Henniker, [247], [320], [325]
Hennibique reinforced concrete, [58]
Hill, Sir Rowland, K.C.B.—
- Penny Postage, [31]
- As a reformer, [35]
- Career, [38]
- His reforms, [39]
- As a lecturer, [54]
Hindhead, [199]
Hindustan, [214]
Hobart, [216]
Holborn Viaduct, [75]
Holland, [160]
Holyhead, [24], [29], [217]
Home Safes—
- England, [154]
- New Zealand, [259]
Hong Kong, [84], [244]
Hood, Thomas, [40]
Household Words, [136]
Hughes recorder, [155], [160]
Hull, [279]
Hungary, [160]

Imperial Penny Postage—
- Beginnings of, [247]
- Establishment of, [258]
Incivility of officials—
- Germany, [233]
- America, [241]
- England, [329]
India—
- Wires to, [160]
- Mails, [214]
- Early postal service, [247]
- Honours, [251]
Indo-European Telegraph Company, [160]
Insurance, National, [279], [332]
Insurance, Post Office, [143]
Intercommunication switch, [163], [168]
International Parcel Post, [83]
Investments in Government Stock, [140]
Ipswich, [25], [75]
Ireland—
- Mail coach service, [29]
- Parcel Post, [94]
- Packet service, [217]
- Service incident, [295]
Iris, [215]
Isle of Man, [217], [218]
Isle of Skye, [217]
Isle of Wight, [217]

Jacobs, W. W., [274]
Japan—
- Mails to, [220]
- P. O. service, [243]
- Savings Banks, [244]
Jingle, Mr. Alfred, on postmen's uniform, [311]
Johnston, Sir H. H., K. C. B., [255]
Johnston, R. W., [50]
Jolly, John, [107]
Joyce, H., C. B., [265]