The London Penny Post was a premier postal system whose function was to deliver mail within London and its immediate suburbs for the modest sum of one...

Robert Murray established the London Penny Post in 1680. They set up a local post that used a uniform rate of one old penny for delivery of letters and...

obliged the London Penny Post to come under the authority of the Postmaster General. Although now part of the GPO, the London Penny Post continued to...

introduced in 1852 (12 years after the first postage stamp, Penny Black), and other post boxes, many of which bear the royal cypher of the reigning monarch...

The Uniform Penny Post was a component of the comprehensive reform of the Royal Mail, the UK's official postal service, that took place in the 19th century...

the London Penny Post, a postal system that delivered mailed items within the city of London. The postmarks bore the initial of the particular post office...

Reform and the Penny Black: a New Appreciation. London: National Postal Museum. p. 42. Hill, H. W. (1940). The Fight for the Penny Post. London: Warne. pp...

Kingdom. The pejorative term is roughly interchangeable with penny horrible, penny awful, and penny blood. The term typically referred to a story published...

post offices were set up in both large and small towns, each of which had its own postmark. In 1680 William Dockwra established the London Penny Post...

writer Theodore Hook. Hook posted the card, which bears a penny black stamp, to himself in 1840 from Fulham (part of London). He probably did so as a practical...

William Dockwra, an English merchant in London, and his partner Robert Murray established the London Penny Post. The LPP was a mail system that delivered...

first Penny Post in London in 1680. In latter 17th century London there was no official postal system for mail delivery within the city of London and its...

The penny-farthing, also known as a high wheel, high wheeler or ordinary, is an early type of bicycle. It was popular in the 1870s and 1880s, with its...

conspirator. He is now remembered for his part in the first London Penny Post. Born in the Strand, London, he was son of Robert Murray, a tailor. In 1649 he was...

Yorkshire Post. Archived from the original on 17 July 2022. Retrieved 18 July 2022. Parekh, Marcus; Gutteridge, Nick; Penna, Dominic (15 July 2022). "Penny Mordaunt:...

A penny is a coin (pl.: pennies) or a unit of currency (pl.: pence) in various countries. Borrowed from the Carolingian denarius (hence its former abbreviation...

required). The London District Office (also called the Two-penny Post) for sending letters within the London area (successor to the London Penny Post established...

the post. William Dockwra's 1680s London Penny Post also recorded all details on letters accepted for onward transmission, but unlike the General Post Office...

where men would meet for conversation and commerce. For the price of a penny, customers purchased a cup of coffee and admission. Travellers introduced...

Penny Lapsang Rimbaud (born Jeremy John Ratter, 1943) is a writer, poet, philosopher, painter, musician and activist. He was a member of the performance...

Mauritius "Post Office" stamps were issued by the British Colony Mauritius in September 1847, in two denominations: an orange-red one penny (1d) and a...

The Nevers. Penny was born in London, England, to two lawyers of Irish, Jewish and Maltese descent, and grew up in Lewes and Brighton. Penny suffered from...

Carole Penny Marshall (October 15, 1943 – December 17, 2018) was an American actress, director, and producer. She is best known for her role as Laverne...

(one) off without a penny mean enough to steal a penny off a dead man's eyes not have two pennies to rub together penny-pincher penny-wise and pound-foolish...

place. This resulted in the abolition of the Fourpenny Post and the debut of the uniform penny post on 10 January 1840 when 1d was charged for pre-paid one...

The British pre-decimal penny was a denomination of sterling coinage worth 1⁄240 of one pound or 1⁄12 of one shilling. Its symbol was d, from the Roman...

personality. Penny Valentine was born in London, of Jewish and Italian ancestry. In 1959 she became a trainee reporter, first on the Uxbridge Post, and in...

Retrieved 19 June 2021. "Staff profile: Penny Marshall", City University London "Penny Marshall", The Tbap Foundation Penny Marshall at itv.com "'We did not...

comprehensive reform of the postal system, based on the concept of Uniform Penny Post and his solution of pre-payment, facilitating the safe, speedy and cheap...

1680 - The first penny post system, known as the London Penny Post, for local delivery was introduced by William Dockwra in London. 1690 – Leon II Pajot...