General Post Office

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Employer	Hesba Stretton	The future HS and her sisters worked alongside their father at the WellingtonPost Office until his retirement. Without their help he could not have run this important central office. Cutt, Margaret Nancy. Ministering Angels: A Study of Nineteenth-Century Evangelical Writing for Children. Five Owls Press, 1979. 119
Family and Intimate relationships	Andrea Levy	AL 's father, Winston Levy , was one of those pioneers from the Caribbean (Jamaica) who came to Britain on the Empire Windrush in 1948. He kept a souvenir postcard he bought on the ship...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text	Flora Klickmann	FK 's own contributions to this magazine included many about countryside issues: the conservation of wild flowers, birds, and traditional rural customs, and what the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography calls green spirituality. She...
Wealth and Poverty	Hesba Stretton	The retirement of HS 's father, and the loss of his Post Office salary, precipitated the family into financial crisis. Khorana, Meena, and Judith Gero John, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 163. Gale Research, 1996. 163: 288 Bratton, Jacqueline S. The Impact of Victorian Children’s Fiction. Croom Helm, 1981. 81

The General Post Office removed its restrictions on the size of picture postcards.

Staff, Frank. The Picture Postcard and Its Origins. F. A. Praeger, 1966.

Epsom in Surrey became the site of the first automatic telephone exchange (not requiring an operator) in the UK.

Williams, Trevor I. A Short History of Twentieth-Century Technology, c.1900-c.1950. Clarendon, 1982.

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Trotter, David. “The Person in the Phone Booth”. London Review of Books, Vol.

, No. 2, 28 Jan. 2010, pp. 20-2.

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The K2 public telephone booth came into service in Britain, designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott .

Trotter, David. “The Person in the Phone Booth”. London Review of Books, Vol.

, No. 2, 28 Jan. 2010, pp. 20-2.

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