The General Post Office One minute to Six 1860

The General Post Office One minute to Six 1860The General Post Office, One minute to Six. Oil on canvas. The chaotic rush to catch the last post at the General Post Office in St Martin's le Grand became such an event in Victorian London that people came to watch. With the introduction of the Penny Post in 1840 and the removal of the stamp tax on newspapers, which encouraged the growth of a cheap daily press, many more letters and newspapers were sent by post. This scene came to symbolise the ever

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George Davison Reid photographed this uniformed messenger boy crossing Fleet Street

built by Wren

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Stacks and transit shed of the London Docks in 1907

The dock was filled in and a new building constructed overlooking the Thames

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to his first encounters with racist teachers - race and class have shaped Akala's life and outlook

He captured the theatrical and musical face of London's West End at the end of the 1920s

The writer John Evelyn described London as 'this Glorious and Antient City…so full of Stink and Darknesse' in his Fumifugium of 1661

Paul's dome