British Postal Museum and Archives

Find out all there is to know about the postal service in the absorbing British Postal Museum. It is the The leading resource for British postal history. Split between two sites. The Royal Mail archive in central London houses stamps, posters, post office records and design artwork, accessed via a public search room including a small exhibition space, 10 mins walk from Farringdon tube station.

The Museum Store in Debden, Essex, includes Rowland Hill’s desk, an extensive collection of pillar boxes, post office vans, telephone boxes and more, 5 mins walk from Debden tube station on the Central line. Free guided tours of both the Archive and the Museum Store available.