IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0813 POST 82 Series
Held at: British Postal Museum and Archive: The Royal Mail Archive
Title: Post Office: Telegraphs, Post Office (Inland)
Date(s): 1837-1939
Level of description: Series
Extent: 304 files
Name of creator(s):
No further information available
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Postmaster General took over the private telegraph companies under the Telegraph Acts of 1868 and 1869, which authorised the Postmaster General to purchase, work and maintain telegraphs in the United Kingdom.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
This series consists of a collection of arbitration cases between the Postmaster General and private telegraph companies; memoranda by heads of Post Office departments and their correspondence, records of the Central Telegraph Office, lighthouses and lightvessels, circuits and codes, mobile facilities for telegraphs at race meetings and special events; Letters Patent taken out by inventors and specifications of inventions.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
The Letters Patent are listed alphabetically, under the name of the inventor.
Conditions governing access:
Public Record
Conditions governing reproduction:
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Finding aids:
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ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
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ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
For reference to pre-takeover records of private telegraph companies, see POST 81.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Entry checked by Barbara Ball
Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: Entry checked June 2011