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Post Office, Newcastle, 1855
Extract from: History, Topography, and Directory of Northumberland...Whellan, William, & Co, 1855.
POST OFFICE, NEWCASTLE.
CHARLES HEADLAM, Esq., Postmaster.
No despatch to the North on Sunday nights.
There is a General Delivery; by the Letter Carriers, at 8 50 a.m. and 6 30 p.m.
ON SUNDAYS - The Town Deliveries are at the Letter Carriers' Window from 8 30 till 10 a.m. The Town Receiving Houses, at Barras Bridge, Westgate, St. Ann's and Quayside, are cleared twice each day (except Sunday), at 4 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. Money Order Office open every day (except Sunday) from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; fee on sums not exceeding £2. 3d.; exceeding £2 and not exceeding £5. 6d.
Also in this Directory (Whellan, 1855) for Newcastle:
- Description of Newcastle
- Early history
- Fire of Newcastle & Gateshead (1854)
- Extinct Monastic Edifices
- Fortifications, etc.
- Churches and Chapels
- Public schools
- Hospitals and Almshouses
- Benevolent Societies and Institutions
- Public Civil Buildings, etc.
- Literary and Scientific Societies, etc
- Commerce and Manufacturers, etc.
- Corporation, etc.
- General Charitities of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
- Eminent Men
- Post Office, Newcastle
- Directory of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
