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# Rowland Hill at Cartwright Gardens Standing before this modest townhouse on Cartwright Gardens, you're standing at the birthplace of modern mail. In 1837, while residing at this very address in Bloomsbury, Rowland Hill put pen to paper to write the revolutionary pamphlet that would transform how ...

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Cartwright Gardens, WC1

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Rowland Hill 1795–1879 Wrote the pamphlet leading to the creation of the Modern Postal Service at a house on this site 1837