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At your service...throughout the war the GPO kept telephone, telegraph and postal services operating under difficult conditions.
A pair of pottery salt and pepper shakers made in the shape of letter boxes. Instead of collection plates there is either an ‘S’ or ‘P’ as appropriate. Many of the items in the Wilkinson Collection have practical uses like these.
A full postal service for serving forces was provided by the GPO and the Army Post Office. This photograph shows examples of various Air Letters which could be used to write to those away fighting or in Prisoner of War camps.
This box dates from 1857-1859 and is one of the earliest types to be introduced. Boxes of various sizes were inserted into walls or brick pillars to enable road-side posting facilities in areas where volumes of mail were less.
Detail of the second generation coding machine. This coding machine was known as the "Easy View" as letters were presented horizontally to the operator, rather than vertically as on previous machines.
This photo shows a sticker on the machine displaying the local short codes.
A lot of the objects in the Wilkinson Collection are aimed at children. This model letter box is also a money box and uses a bear called Nikki to encourage children to save their pennies.
This consists of two match boxes with a tile on top showing a girl posting a letter into a letter box.
This is a copy of the first airgraph, sent by the Queen to General Sir Claude Auchinleck, the Commander-in-Chief in the Middle East.
Sealed packages containing this Victory Bells slogan die were sent to all postmasters in 1943, to be opened only on subsequent instructions when peace broke out. They were used from 8th May to 9th June 1945 to celebrate VE Day, and again from 15 August to 15 September 1945 to celebrate VP Day. The arrangements worked remarkably well with the only cases of premature usage being reported from Birmingham on 22nd April and London W1 on 7th May.