Bath Postal Museum

Local nameBath Postal Museum
LocationBath, Somerset, UK

The Bath Postal Museum was a postal museum in Bath, Somerset, England.

The museum was founded in 1979 by Audrey and Harold Swindells in the basement of their house in Great Pulteney Street. In 1985, it moved to a home in Broad Street. This was the site of Bath's main Post Office from 1822 to 1854 and the building in which the first recorded posting of a Penny Black took place on 2 May 1840. It was designated by English Heritage as a grade II listed building.The museum's collections included: biographies of key figures involved with the development of the Post Office and connected with Bath, such as Ralph Allen, John Palmer and Thomas Moore Musgrave; a history of the post from 2000BC to the current day and a history of the British postbox.

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More information and contact

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_Postal_Museum

Official website http://www.bathpostalmuseum.co.uk/

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/BathPostalMuseum

Phone +44 (0) 1225 460 333

Address 27 Northgate Street, Bath, BA1 1AJ, UK

Coordinates 51°23'0.287" N -2°21'36.356" E

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