Series
Post Office: Telephones, Overseas
Catalogue reference: POST 87
What’s it about?
This record is about the Post Office: Telephones, Overseas dating from 1877-1938.
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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 87
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Title (The name of the record)
- Post Office: Telephones, Overseas
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1877-1938
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of a few specimen agreements between Britain and other countries for the establishment of an overseas telephone service, and a collection of reports on various overseas telephone systems.
Please see BT Archives online catalogue and The Postal Museum'sonline catalogue for some descriptions of individual records within this series.
The records in this series reflect a former arrangement and have since been re-catalogued. Please contact BT Archives https://www.bt.com/about/bt/our-history/bt-archives for more information.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
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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 87 reference numbers are now obsolete.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- BT Group 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)
- 12 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
- Custodial history: 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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Overseas telephonic communication in its early days was mainly confined to services between London and Paris, the North of France, Brussels and Antwerp. The first telephone cable across the Channel was laid in 1891. During the early 1920s services were gradually extended to other European and Scandinavian countries. In 1927 a radio-telephone service was opened between Britain and the United States. The overseas services were developed rapidly during the late 1920s and early 1930s, and communications soon extended to Australia, Canada, South America, Spain, Italy, etc.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/bd4b5502-b305-4b72-9eb0-3bacc1a03e3a/
Catalogue hierarchy
This record is held at BT Group Archives
Within the fonds: POST 81-88
Early development of telegraph and telephone services in the UK
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Post Office: Telephones, Overseas