Faraday Building
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The Faraday Building is in the southwest of the City of London close to St Paul's Cathedral. The land was first acquired by the General Post Office in the 1870s, for the Post Office Savings Bank.
The building's main façade of 26 ½ bays on Queen Victoria Street, also showing part of its narrower front to Godliman Street
The building's entrance
Blue plaque on the site of Tanner's Central Savings Bank extension, recording its use as Faraday Building North from 1902 to 1982.
Upper part of the 1933 building.
General Post Office
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The General Post Office was the state postal system and telecommunications carrier of the United Kingdom until 1969. Established in England in the 17th century, the GPO was a state monopoly covering t
Victorian 'Post Office' pillar box in Oxton, Merseyside.
'The Post Horse' (from The Life of a Racehorse, or The High-Mettled Racer) by Thomas Rowlandson, 1789.
John Thurloe (Postmaster-General 1655-1660).
The sorting room at the General Letter Office, Lombard Street, 1809 (as pictured in The Microcosm of London).