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Sub-sub-fonds
Post Office: Accounts
Catalogue reference: POST 9
What’s it about?
This record is about the Post Office: Accounts dating from 1715-1948.
Is it available online?
Maybe, but not on The National Archives website. This record is held at The Postal Museum. How to view it.
Can I see it in person?
Not at The National Archives, but you may be able to view it in person at The Postal Museum. How to view it.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- POST 9
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Title (The name of the record)
- Post Office: Accounts
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1715-1948
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series comprises a wide variety of 18th, 19th and some 20th century account books and schedules relating to Post Office business.
A number of items in this series will be useful to researchers of 19th century family history. The series contains names of mail conveyance contractors, names of postmasters, names of postmasters and their date of appointment and names of officers working in the Post Office in London. The volumes, however, do not contain name indexes.
Please see The Postal Museum's online catalogue for descriptions of individual records within this series.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Catalogue entries below series level were removed from Discovery, The National Archives' online catalogue, in November 2016 because fuller descriptions were available in The Postal Museum's online catalogue.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
All pieces are one volume unless otherwise stated.
The records are arranged in chronological order within sub-series.
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Some items transferred with new number and description to
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The Postal Museum
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 189 files and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Communications
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11740/
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