The post office and its story an interesting account of the activities of a great government department

INDEX Abbot's Cliff, 191 Aberdeen, 72, 73, 80 Accountant-General, 45, 55 Addresses on letters, 108, 111, 115, 120, 252 Admiralty, 220 Advertising postal facilities, 85, 323 Aldersgate Street, 129 Allen, Ralph, 36 Alphabet keeper, 45 America, 64 Anglo-American Telegraph Company, 160 Animals by post, 323 Annals of the Road, 27 Annuities, Post Office, 143 Architecture of Post Offices, 233, 302 Army Post Office— Crimea, 130 Early history, 336 Duties of, 337 Arran Islands, 217 Assistant Secretaries, 261 Associations, their recognition by Postmaster-General, 262 Atlantic Ferry, 209, 212 Athens, 81 Australia— First mail service to, 215 Postal service, 258 Articles refused by post, 328 Austria, 160 Awards Committee, 206 Aylesbury Coach Road, 89 Bagnigge Wells, 85 Baines, F. E., C.B., 32, 265 Balloons, 235 Balmoral Castle, 216 Band conveyors, 60 Baptism, commercial idea of, 150 Barnet, 98 Bartholomew's Hospital, 58 Batavia, 213 Bath, 22, 36 Baudot system— Introduction, 155 Circuit, 160 Working of, 167 Bawtry, 281 Bedminster Town Penny Bank, 325 Bees by post, 323 Belfast, 279 Belgium— Parcel Post to, 84 Money Orders to, 131 Wires to, 160 Telephone to, 191 Bell, A. M., 182 Bell, Graham, 182 Berlin, 327 Berne— First Congress, 225 Treaty of, 226 Second Congress, 228 Monument, 230 Bicycles, 99 Birmingham, 31, 35, 70, 72, 164, 279 Blackfriars Power Station, 162, 169 “Black Swan,” 44 Blackwood, Sir Arthur, K.C.B., 264 Blind Section, 62, 89, 90 Bombay, 215, 216 Bousseul, Charles, 181 Boxmoor, 72 Boy messengers— Qualifications, 339 Explanations, 341-346 Bradshaw, 231 Bright's Bell, 155 Brighton, 75, 99, 100