Catalogue description Post Office: Telegraphs, Post Office (Inland)

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Details of POST 82
Reference: POST 82
Title: Post Office: Telegraphs, Post Office (Inland)
Description:

This series consists of a collection of arbitration cases between the Postmaster General and private telegraph companies; memoranda by heads of Post Office departments and their correspondence, records of the Central Telegraph Office, lighhouses and lightvessels, circuits and codes, mobile facilities for telegraphs at race meetings and special events; Letters Patent taken out by inventors and specificaitons of inventions.

Please see BT Archives online catalogue and The Postal Museum's online catalogue for descriptions of individual records within this series.

Note: Catalogue entries below series level were removed from Discovery, The National Archives' online catalogue, in November 2016 because fuller descriptions were available in The Postal Museum's online catalogue and BT Archives online catalogue.
Date: 1837-1939
Arrangement:

Note that these records have been rearranged to fit the scheme of arrangement used at BT Archives. The records have been incorporated within TCB and the POST 82 reference numbers are now obsolete. Please contact BT Archives for more information.
Related material:

For refence to pre-takeover records of private telegraph companies, see POST 81
Held by: BT Group Archives, not available at The National Archives
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 266 file(s)
Custodial history: This series of records, along with other Post Office telecommunications records, was transferred from the Post Office Archives to BT Archives in 1991.
Administrative / biographical background:

The Postmaster General took over the private telegraph companies under the Telegraph Acts of 1869 & 1869, which authorised the Postmaster General to purchase, work and maintain telegraphs in the United Kingdom.

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