by Claire McHugh, Cataloguer (Collections) Searching the online catalogue you may have noticed an omission from The British Postal Museum & Archive’s collection; uniforms. This absence doesn’t mean The BPMA doesn’t hold such material; indeed we have about 1000 items such as ties, protective clothing, waistcoats, jackets, skirts and trousers to name but a few items. Close up of Postwoman’s overcoat, 1918. This is an example of the first standard uniform for Postwomen. Before WW1 postwomen had only been supplied with waterproofs. To rectify this, a project has recently begun to bring The BPMA’s uniform catalogue records up to date and review the collection with regard to our museum collection review policy and facilitate the decision as to what is to be accessioned (the formal, legal process of accepting an object into a museum collection) permanently into …
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by Freya Folåsen, Cataloguer (Collections) The British Postal Museum & Archive (BPMA) museum collection has just about any object type one can think of when it comes to the British postal service: postal stationary, pens and stamps; letterboxes and sorting machines; vehicles and uniforms. A very large part of the collection consists of handstamps:...
Each month, for ten months, we’ll be presenting an object from the Morten Collection on this blog. The Morten Collection is a nationally important postal history collection currently held at Bruce Castle , Tottenham. As part of a Heritage Lottery Funded project, Pistols, Packets and Postmen , the BPMA, Bruce Castle Museum and the Communication...
A model letter box made of metal and brown leather. Quite decorative in style, it may well have been used to hold cigarettes. Today we added some photos of items from the Wilkinson Collection to Flickr. The Wilkinson Collection is named after the late Ian Wilkinson, who collected over 3000 objects related to post boxes and the postal service....
by Jo Sullivan, Project Officer: New Centre Project BPMA’s project to create a new Postal Museum & Archive on the Churchward Village site in Swindon recently received a piece of exciting news as the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) confirmed our first round pass for a grant of £2,617,800, including development funding of £117,800. Architect's...
by Emma Harper, Cataloguer (Collections) You may have noticed that since my last blog around 850 objects from the Wilkinson Collection have been added to our online catalogue . These are the objects that I have been cataloguing in the past months; however, these are not the full extent of the collection. In the case of the Wilkinson collection...
Each month we present an object from the Morten Collection on this blog. The Morten Collection is a nationally important postal history collection currently held at Bruce Castle , Tottenham. As part of a Heritage Lottery Funded project, Pistols, Packets and Postmen , the BPMA, Bruce Castle Museum and the Communication Workers Union (the owner...
Each month, for ten months, we’ll be presenting an object from the Morten Collection on this blog. The Morten Collection is a nationally important postal history collection currently held at Bruce Castle , Tottenham. As part of a Heritage Lottery Funded project, Pistols, Packets and Postmen , the BPMA, Bruce Castle Museum and the Communication...
Each month, for ten months, we’ll be presenting an object from the Morten Collection on this blog. The Morten Collection is a nationally important postal history collection currently held at Bruce Castle , Tottenham. As part of a Heritage Lottery Funded project, Pistols, Packets and Postmen , the BPMA, Bruce Castle Museum and the Communication...
Each month, for ten months, we’ll be presenting an object from the Morten Collection on this blog. The Morten Collection is a nationally important postal history collection currently held at Bruce Castle , Tottenham. As part of a Heritage Lottery Funded project, Pistols, Packets and Postmen , the BPMA, Bruce Castle Museum and the Communication...
According to the National Postal Museum’s Arago website, “…during the Civil War, the Union blockade proved critical in restricting goods from entering and leaving the Confederacy. Southerners faced increasing shortages of supplies, including paper and envelopes. Writers began to use whatever was handy as letter writing paper...
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