A number of privately owned telegraph companies operated in Britain from 1846 onwards. In 1868 these all came under the control of the newly formed GPO (General Post Office). With the invention of the telephone in 1876 the GPO began to provide telephone services from some of its telegraph exchanges. In 1969 the GPO, a government department, became the Post Office. Telecommunications was split off, as British Telecom, in 1981.
2022: Londonist have posted a very useful page on phone boxes.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
British Telecom
Property developer and philanthropist. Born 46 Jugela Street, Catford. Made his fortune in the re-building work after WW2. Died at home, 26 Harley Road, Hampstead. This was the only picture we cou...
We can't see this turnpike on a map of 1790. View from the Mirror has a good general post on London turnpikes.
The brand Pret a Manger actually started in Hampstead but that folded after 18 months and the brand was sold to Julian Metcalfe and Sinclair Beecham who restarted it in Victoria near, but not actua...
Born on Bermondsey Street. Initially worked in his family's wool, skin and fur business. In 1729 he acquired the lease for what would become Vauxhall Gardens and transformed it into a successful, f...
The plaque is on the wall at pedestrian eye height, immediately below the clock. Numbers 384-392 did not become part of the hospital unt...
Inventor, industrial archaeologist, leading figure in patent reform and the first clerk to the commissioners of patents. Born Lancashire. Appointed professor of machinery at University College Lond...
Wrestling coach. Also known as Moshe Weinberg. Israeli youth champion in wrestling, and also the adult champion for eight years. At the Summer Olympics in Munich, he was murdered by Palestinian ter...
We could find nothing about this incident, until we asked Richmond Council's Local Studies Library and Archive. They very quickly found t...
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