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Post Office: Telegraphs, Post Office (Inland)

Catalogue reference: POST 82

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This record is about the Post Office: Telegraphs, Post Office (Inland) dating from 1837-1939.

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Reference
POST 82
Title
Post Office: Telegraphs, Post Office (Inland)
Date
1837-1939
Description

This series consists of a collection of arbitration cases between the Postmaster General and private telegraph companies; memoranda by heads of Post Office departments and their correspondence, records of the Central Telegraph Office, lighhouses and lightvessels, circuits and codes, mobile facilities for telegraphs at race meetings and special events; Letters Patent taken out by inventors and specificaitons of inventions.

Please see BT Archives online catalogue and The Postal Museum's online 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.

Note

For reference to pre-takeover records of private telegraph companies, see POST 81

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.

Arrangement

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 82 reference numbers are now obsolete.

Held by
BT Group Archives
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Physical description
266 file(s)
Immediate source of acquisition
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.
Administrative / biographical background

The Postmaster General took over the private telegraph companies under the Telegraph Acts of 1869 and 1869, which authorised the Postmaster General to purchase, work and maintain telegraphs in the United Kingdom.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/f76c0ef1-df1a-4e78-a6a5-b1efbf0e7323/

Catalogue hierarchy

56 records

This record is held at BT Group Archives

9 records

Within the fonds: POST 81-88

Early development of telegraph and telephone services in the UK

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Post Office: Telegraphs, Post Office (Inland)