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.
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British Telecom
Set up to install a network of water mains that would deliver hydraulic power through the use of water under high pressure, water from the Thames. The network extended from Hyde Park to Docklands ...
Born Sheffield. See Arnold for a photo of the 4 Burton children and details of this family.
Originally erected in Hyde Park to house the Great Exhibition of 1851. It was on the section south of Rotten Row and east of West Carriage Drive with the mid-point opposite Rutland Gate. The cast-...
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Founded by T. Walton. See his page for more details about the shops. Our picture was generously offered to us by Monika Roleff who tells us: "This paper bag is part of the collection of ephemera o...
Close friend of King James I. Dutch Ambassador to the court, 1609-24. 1602–3 Elizabeth granted him a house in South Lambeth where he lived until his death. From this plan we think this house was ab...
Composer. Born Zelazowa Wola, Poland of a French emigrant father and Polish mother. Left Poland aged 20, never to return. Despite his long romantic liaison with novelist George Sand (Aurore Dudevan...
Architect. Born in St Giles, Norwich. His first architectural work, was improvements to Thoresby Park, Nottinghamshire. He travelled throughout Europe and published his researches into both classic...
Poet and novelist. Born Ireland but brought up in London. His mystery novels were written under his pseudonym, Nicholas Blake. During the 1940s, while still married to his first wife, he had a long...
Novelist, playwright and screenwriter. Born in Bromley, Kent. He started his career as a pornography writer, but progressed to writing plays for several London fringe theatres. His novels include '...
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