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Transcript of Unstitching the Uniform: Unpicking the stories hidden within the British Postal Museum & Archive’s...
Joanna Espin, Curator
Unstitching the Uniform:Unpicking the stories hidden within the British Postal
Museum & Archive’s uniform collection
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BPMA, Mail Packet off Eastbourne, Victor Tolubioff Howes, 2005-0102
Uniform coatNational Trust Inventory Number 1350640Snowshill Wade Costume Collection
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Uniform coatNational Trust Inventory Number 1350640Snowshill Wade Costume Collection
GPO Mail Coach Guard CoatBPMA, 2010-0079
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"Them as 'ave seen coaches afore rails came into fashion 'ave seen something worth rememberin'!
Them was 'appy days for old England, afore reform and rails
turned everything upside down."
Recollections of a coachman, St Martin's-le-Grand Magazine
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BPMA, River postman’s uniform 1861-1882 (2010-0476)
GPO Mail Coach Guard CoatBPMA, 2010-0079
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BPMA, 2012-0031
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The Post of River Postman in the Pool of London
1800 - 1806 William Simpson Former Waterman
1806 - 1810 William Simpson Son
1810 – 1832 Samuel Evans Simpson’s Assistant
1832 - 1845 Samuel Evans Son
1845 - 1856 Samuel Lowden Evans Son
1856 - 1885 George. T. Evans Brother
1885 - 1914 George Henry Evans Son
1914 - 1952 Herbert Lionel Evans Son
1952 Service is terminated
POST 118/1039
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BPMA, 2011-0076, 1980s, Royal Mail maternity dressBPMA, Post 61/209, 1992
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