The Post Office in Pictures

Current & Future Exhibitions

A mail cart is being driven across a shoreline bound for Holy Island (POST 118/854)

A mail cart is being driven across a shoreline bound for Holy Island. A man driving the cart is accompanied by two female passengers. (POST 118/854)

A Mobile Post Office at Ascot Races (POST 118/872)

The Post Office in Pictures

The Post Modern, Swindon

6 October - 5 November 2011

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The Post Office in Pictures is an exhibition showcasing iconic photographic images sourced from The Royal Mail Archive.

In 1933 Sir Stephen Tallents was appointed Public Relations Officer to the General Post Office (GPO), and so began a major project to promote the range of postal services to the British public. One initiative was the establishment of The Post Office Magazine, intended to give a sense of shared community, camaraderie and endeavour. In order to do this, the GPO employed photographers to create beautiful, informative and often humorous photographs of the Post Office at work.

While the photographic documentation of the Post Office at work in the community has continued to today, this exhibition will celebrate photographs from the BPMA collection covering the 1930s to the 1990s. Local artists from Artsite Ltd. will provide a contemporary twist, with an art installation inspired by the archive images.