John Palmer of Bath was an English theatre owner and instigator of the British system of mail coaches that was the beginning of the great British post office reforms with the introduction of an effici
A print showing a mail coach decorated in the black and scarlet Post Office livery near Newmarket, Suffolk in 1827. The guard can be seen standing at the rear.
Old Orchard Street Theatre
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Old Orchard Street Theatre in Bath, Somerset, England, was built as a provincial theatre before becoming a Roman Catholic church. Since 1865, it has been a Masonic Hall. It is a Grade II listed buildi
John Palmer (postal innovator)
…for the constituency of Bath between 1801 and 1807. Palmer was the eldest son of a prosperous Bath brewer and theatre owner who inherited his father's Old Orchard Street Theatre, and obtained a royal letters patent for it in 1768 which gave him an effective monopoly on playhouses in the city and the right to use the title…
Old Orchard Street Theatre
Old Orchard Street Theatre. Drawn by Thomas Rowlandson circa 1790