The General Post Office stone plaque

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# The General Post Office Stone Standing in Post Office Court, you're positioned at the beating heart of British postal history for over 150 years—the very address where the General Post Office established itself on Lady Day in 1678, having outgrown its cramped quarters on Bishopsgate Street. Withi...

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Post Office Court

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The General Post Office moved from Bishopsgate Street to a building on this site on Lady Day 1678 and remained here until the opening of St.Martin's Le Grand on the 23rd September 1829