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Description: | Amongst the sorting offices at the General Post Office in St Martins-le-Grand, postal workers ran the foreign mail section. Letters and parcels were separated into sacks corresponding to their destinations. This section of the room covers India, Pakistan, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Burma (Myanmar) and South Africa. The contents of packages were checked and labelled for inspection at customs if necessary.
The mail sacks were taken to the post office railway, to begin their journey across London on automatically controlled electric trains. Thousands of mail sacks were distributed daily.
Edwin Smith took this photo to illustrate the blend of modernity and tradition in the City for the book 'The Living City', published by the Corporation of London in 1957. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Museum of London | Rights holder: | �� Edwin Smith/RIBA Library | Subjects: | work | Temporal: | 1931-1970 | Source: | Museum of London | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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