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Sub-sub-fonds
Post Office: Telephones (Inland)
Catalogue reference: POST 86
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This record is about the Post Office: Telephones (Inland) dating from 1874-1938.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- POST 86
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Title (The name of the record)
- Post Office: Telephones (Inland)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1874-1938
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series comprises items on telephone rates and charges, forms of licence issued by the Postmaster General, reports, memoranda and papers relating to matters of telephone policy, items of general interest and a collection of select committee and departmental reports.
Please see BT Archives online catalogue and 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 and BT Archives online catalogue.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Note that these records have been rearranged to fit the scheme of arrangement used at BT Archives. The records have been incorporated within TCB and the POST 86 reference numbers are now obsolete. Please contact BT Archives for more information.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- BT Archives
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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)
- 76 file(s)
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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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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- This series of records, along with other Post Office telecommunications records, was transferred from the Post Office Archives to BT Archives in 1991.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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From 1880, the Post Office enjoyed a monopoly in respect of the provision of telegraph and telephone services in the UK, following a legal ruling on the powers conferred on the Postmaster General by the Telegraph Act, 1869. Private telephone companies in competition with the Post Office, principally the National Telephone Company, thereafter operated under licence from the Post Office. This remained the situation until 1912, when the Post Office took over the National Telephone Company which, by that time, was the last remaining telephone concern outside public control.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11803/
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56 records
This record is held at BT Archives
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Within the fonds: POST
Records created or inherited by the Royal Mail Group plc and predecessors
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Post Office: Telephones (Inland)
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