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Festive colour scheme.
The "Royal Mail"
1516 Henry VII established a “Master of the Posts”, a position which evolved into the office of the Postmaster General.
1635 Charles I made the postal service available to the public, with the cost of postage being paid by the recipient.
1654 Oliver Cromwell granted a monopoly over the mail delivery service in England to the “Office of Postage”.
1657 Fixed postal rates were introduced.
1660 Charles II established the General Post Office.
1661 The postage date stamp was first used, and the first Postmaster General was appointed.
1784 The first mail coach was introduced between Bristol and London. Early mail coaches were similar to ordinary family carriages but bore the Post Office livery.
1793 Uniformed post men hit the streets for the first time.
1830 The first mail train from Liverpool to Manchester Railway made its first deliveries.
1837 Rowland Hill, a schoolmaster from Birmingham, invented the adhesive postage stamp – an act for which he was knighted.
1838 The Post Office Money order system introduced.
1840 The first adhesive postage stamp, the Penny Black, was released nationally, and the Uniform Penny Post, by which letters could be sent for one penny, was established.
1852 The first Post Office pillar box was erected in Jersey.
1853 The first post boxes were erected in mainland Britain.
1857 The first wall boxes were installed Shrewsbury and Market Drayton.
1870 The Post Office launched its telegraph service. The same year the Post Office Act banned sending of “indecent or obscene” literature; introduced the ½d rate for postcards, and provided for the issue of newspaper wrappers. The first postcards were also issued.
1880 Postmen began to use bicycles to deliver the mail.
1881 The Postal order was introduced.
1883 The Parcel post began.
1912 The Post Office opened its national telephone service.
1968 Second class stamps were introduced and the National Giro Bank opened.
1969 Under the Post Office Act of 1969, the General Post Office changed from a government department to a nationalised industry.
1971 Postal services in Great Britain were suspended for two months between January and March as the result of a national postal strike over pay.
1974 The system of postcodes was rolled out across Britain.
1977 The Telegram service was abolished.
1981 The Telecommunications arm of the postal service split off to form British Telecom. The remainder of the business is renamed as the "Post Office".
1986 The letter delivery, parcel delivery and post office arms of the mail service was split into three separate businesses under the name Post Office Group.
1988 Postal workers held their first national strike for 17 years over bonuses being paid to recruit new workers in London and the South East.
1990 Girobank was sold to the Alliance & Leicester Building Society and the Royal Mail Parcels business was rebranded as Parcelforce.
2001 The Post Office Group is renamed Consignia in a massive, but short-lived, rebranding exercise which cost £2 million.
2002 15-months after it was renamed Consignia, the postal service is renamed the Royal Mail. John Roberts, chief executive, announced his departure from the group after announcing annual losses of £1.1bn.
2004 Deliveries reduced to once-daily.
2005 Mail Trains were reintroduced on some lines.
2006 Royal Mail lost its monopoly on the postal service when the regulator, PostComm, opened up the market three years ahead of the rest of Europe. Competitors can carry mail and pass it to Royal Mail for delivery. Pricing in Proportion (Pip) is also introduced for first and second class inland mail.
2006 Online postage allowed Royal Mail customers to pay for postage on the internet, without the need to buy traditional stamps.
2007 Official industrial action took place over pay, conditions and pensions and Sunday collections from pillar boxes end. Royal Mail announces plans to close 2500 Post Office branches.
2009 The Communication Workers Union opened a national ballot for industrial action and workers vote to strike over pay and jobs. Lord Mandelson, the Labour business secretary, launched an attempt to part-privatise the Royal Mail. The bid failed after the CWU stirred up a storm of backbench revolt.
2010 The new Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition announced its intention to sell off the Royal Mail’s delivery business but retain the Post Office network in public ownership. Delivery bicycles began to be phased out, 130 years after they were first used.
Royal Mail
Here in Hemyock we are lucky to still have a small Post office, many of the other local villages have lost theirs.
This image is based on an actual vehicle modelled by Oxford Diecast but with added Post Office crown. It depicts an interesting use for a war-surplus Bedford truck. The QLT was the troop-carrying variant of the Bedford QL range and featured a longer body than the more common general service version. In the early post-war years, Post Office Telephones operated a large fleet of former military vehicles. In the case of the QLT, its all-wheel drive be would have been ideal for linesmen engaged in infrastructure away from surfaced roads (updated 04-Aug-24).
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Wartime Covid-19 sticker on a lamppost.
What is even odder is I was listening to the Rolling Stones 'Shattered' on my headphones. From the album 'Some Girls'. Which for me is a throwback to my misspent youth, actually almost my childhood.
But the lyrics...tho.
Shattered, shattered
Love and hope and sex and dreams are still surviving on the streets
And look at me, I'm in tatters
I'm shattered
Shattered
Friends are so alarming, my lover's never charming
Life's just a cocktail party on the street, Big Apple
People dressed in plastic bags (Shadoobie, shattered)
Directing traffic, some kind of fashion
Petit historique relatant le début de la poste aérienne.
Situé à côté de la maison du tourisme et du vin à Pauillac en Gironde.
This is my 50th post in flickr... I wish to dedicate this pic to Prabeesh, my friend. He is my tutor, guru, inspiration for photography...
Thanks Machi...
Prabeesh's photostream
www.flickr.com/photos/thezionview/
And i have Nikon D40 18-55 (non-vr)
CN A490 (Left) is being led by Norfolk Southern GE C44-9W No. 9892 as it passes a stopped CN Autorack train led by CN GE ES44AC No. 2933 at Lake Villa this late morning under foggy/misty skies. 9892 is on the brink of conversion into AC44C6M specs as only a handful of NS C44-9Ws remain. Taken 12.26.24
Bricks Cascade 2017 recap time!
First off, the general convention vibe was great. Compared to BrickCon, there was a lot more floor space, and yet the Technic section managed to be one of the most packed themes there. Everyone was quite welcoming, and new friends were made (always a plus)!
As for models, both the Koenigsegg and the Subarute were received very well. My last parts for the Subarute showed up on Saturday at 12:30ish, so I had to frantically build for a few hours to get the model to where it is now. Thankfully, it got done before Sunday's public hours, where it received quite a bit of attention. The Koenigsegg, of course, received it's usual "KOENIGSEGG!!!" and "Is that a Ferrari/Lamborghini/Saleen S5?" comments, and it was great seeing faces light up when I'd open the doors. The One:1 also won the award "Technic-al Achievement", which came with the Cargo Plane set you see in the photo (Convention organizers take note: trophies are better when they come with a set!).
On the topic of sets, I picked up two copies of 42063 while making a LEGO store run, along with the Claas tractor, which I and two other Technic builders drafted out (hence the big ziploc of Technic pieces). Off-screen are also two small boxes of system pieces that I'll need to sort through....
...which brings me to my next point. Everything in the picture (plus the two boxes of system and the Binary Clock model that's collecting dust) needs to be disassembled and sorted before I start my next model. Of course, I'm keeping the trophy intact, and I've got fairly accurate LDD models of both the Koenigsegg and the Subarute in the event that I need to rebuild them. The only thing is, my current LEGO sorting setup is already at the overflow point, and that's without the Koenigsegg and Subaru BrickLink orders (let alone the 3 sets and heaps of bulk). Guess it's time to buy some more storage containers!
Overall, Bricks Cascade was an absolute blast. It's great to finally go to a convention that's 20 minutes from home rather than 3.5 hours away, and the friendly environment made me feel quite at home. Plus, who can say no to free LEGO?
Old jetty posts at Coogee beach, near Woodman point just south of Fremantle, Western Australia www.cloudtogroundimages.com
Mass Effect 2
-3600x3600;
- ReShade framework;
- In-game UE3 commands keybindings (PlayersOnly, ToggleFlycam, FOV, etc). Tilt and fog control via Erika Tschinkel's cheat table.
Il paesino, la Chiesa, il Posto Telefonico Pubblico. Pochi anni fa, il mondo di quasi tutti; ora, il mondo di quasi nessuno.
Il Posto di Telefonia Pubblica (PTP) ha da sempre rappresentato un servizio importantissimo a causa della bassa diffusione del telefono nelle abitazioni. Fino all'arrivo del cellulare era l'unico mezzo di comunicazione a disposizione se si era fuori casa. Davanti a un telefono pubblico si accettava anche di fare lunghe code pur di riuscire a fissare appuntamenti, aggiornare i familiari sui propri spostamenti o tenersi in contatto dai posti di villeggiatura. Le insegne venivano installate sul muro presso i bar a parete verticale o sopra le cabine telefoniche.
Da www.museoscienza.org/dipartimenti/catalogo_collezioni/sch...
MOC: Post Office. A modern interpretation of the classic set 6689, "Post-Station".
The roof lifts off, in two sections, to allow access to the fully furnished interior.
Credits
Concept by Elliott Montello
Models - Pete Butchers Kanye Westeros Nick Clark Sam Bond Steven Dillon Emma Fay Morgan Scott Woodside Stefanie Groß Mark Brock Elliott G Montello
Costumes
Elliott Montello, Mark Brock, Emma Morgan, Nick Bush, Kane Fowler
Make-Up
Naomi Kate Ettie Lake
Behind the Scenes Video & Photography
Laurence Leeke, Alex Thornton
Photography and Editing
Jon Roberts, James Hendley, Elliott Montello
Beach Buggy
Gregory Edward Hind
Stock Photography & Assets
Dmitri Zaitsev
Locations
Si Firth
Catering
Steve Dillion
Figs made of recently found torsos, etc, that I hav managed to dig out of my boxes.
P.S. Sorting is a pain...
One of the posts that surround part of the Lake Agnes Tea House in Lake Louise Alberta.
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I am starting to talk about some "Photoshop Thoughts and Ideas" at maclobster.blogspot.com/. Small and informal. :-)
Accounts of some my past outdoor adventures can be found at redlobsterjournal.blogspot.ca