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October meeting 07
The speaker at our October meeting was Mrs Sarah Greenwood of Colne,
who gave a talk on "Postal History" from 1840 onwards. Shw showed how
1840 was a key date in the developments of an efficient postal system, with the introduction of stamps, organised deliveries and, soom afterwards, the arrival of piller boxes and telegrams. Her talk was illustrated with slides of contempory correspondence from her own collection. |