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Postal Museum

Category: Monuments + Museums

8 Broad Street, Bath, BA1 5LJ

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Bath Postal Museum on AboutBritain.com
Pratts Hotel is centrally located within historic Bath, close to the Abbey, Roman Baths, Royal Crescent and wonderful shops. The historical ambience of the hotel combines with modern facilities, superb food,...
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Bath.co.uk - Bath Postal Museum
There are many original artefacts on display including quill pens and ink wells, stamp boxes, post boxes, post horns, clay tablets, strip maps, model mail coaches and of course, letters and postcards. There is a replica Victorian post office and we even have a carrier pigeon and a post office cat!!!...
bath.co.uk

Bath Postal Museum - Icons of England
The Postal Museum tells the history of 4,000 years of communication, from clay mail to e-mail, and is housed in the building that the very first Penny Black stamp was sent from! Saturday workshops and educational visits incorporate a hands-on approach to learning where visitors can get involved with...
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Inside Bath: Bath Postal Museum - TripAdvisor
The museum is dedicated to collecting and preserving historical records and artefacts concerning the development of all types of written communications within the UK and throughout the world, from the very beginn...
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Bath Postal Museum - Things to Do - Visit Bath
At Bath Postal Museum we have something for everyone. We provide colourful, frequently changing exhibitions, interactive games and quizzes, models and collectables and feature historic 'talking heads' video characters. There is also plenty to do for young visitors, who can play the mail computer cha...
visitbath.co.uk

Bath Postal Museum - 24 Hour Museum - official guide to UK museums, galleries, exhibitions and heritage
Starting at 2000BC, displays cover the development of letter writing, the carrying of letters and their cost. The story of Ralph Allen's revolutionary postal system and John Palmer's innovative mail coach organisation are told. Reconstructed Victorian and 1930's Post Offices tell the story of the de...
24hourmuseum.org.uk

Bath Postal Museum, Bath Cultural Places Reviews - TrustedPlaces
Bath Postal Museum takes you on a journey through many different types of post, from the Babylonian clay tablets dated back to 2000 BC, all the way through the different centuries up to today's system of email. There are accounts of the history of postmen and postwomen uniforms, pillar boxes thr...
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Postal Museum, Bath - Bath venue review - Itchy Bath Guide
The first postage stamp, the Penny Black, was issued from this building on the 2nd of May, 1840, so what finer way to commemorate the history of the postal service than to build a museum on the spot. Never mind the fact that the place is always filled to bursting with avid stamp collectors who have ...
itchybath.co.uk

Bath Postal Museum
The Bath Postal Museum illustrates 4,000 years of communications using interactive and audio-visual displays. It explains how the postal service originally developed in 18th century Bath and was later introduced in Europe and the rest of the world.  Reconstr...
touruk.co.uk

Buckingham First Day Covers
The Bath Postal Museum has a superb archive of rare postal items and a fascinating collection everything to do with the post including covers, stamps, postboxes and uniforms! It is the only comprehensive postal museum open to the public in the UK and makes a brilliant day out. The museum has been bu...
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