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Group. The former director of the Postal Museum is Adrian Steel. The Postal Museum receives an annual payment from Royal Mail for managing the Royal Mail archive. Although the archive is part of the Postal Museum, because it is a public record, the ultimate responsibility for it lies with Royal Mail.
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Royal Mail Group decided to transfer the work of this heritage unit to an independent charitable trust, in light of the changing mail market and its own shift from public service to competitive business. This 'Postal Heritage Trust' came into being in April 2004, and was branded as the
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In 1998, the King Edward Building was sold, and the NPM closed. The collections were retained and the management of the museum and archive was combined. This was known as the Heritage unit of the Post Office (then renamed Consignia, then Royal Mail Group).
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in London. A collection of postal equipment, uniforms, vehicles and much more was developed over the years; far more than could be displayed in the small museum.
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In February 2016, the BPMA was renamed the Postal Museum, and began building a new museum which opened in 2017 in Clerkenwell, London, near to the
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From 2004, the BPMA expanded its work into providing a programme of events, exhibitions, education and web resources.
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run by the Postal Heritage Trust. It began in 2004 as The British Postal Museum & Archive and opened in
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which means that they are recognised as nationally important, and are available to researchers to consult.
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The Postal Museum operates three sites: The museum at Phoenix Place, London near the
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The Postal Museum is an independent charity but is strongly linked with
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Media and communications in the London Borough of Islington
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Postal Museum (London)


air mail
Clerkenwell
London
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London Underground
National Rail
Farringdon
London Underground
Russell Square
postalmuseum.org
postal museum
Central London
Mount Pleasant sorting office
Clerkenwell
Loughton
Blists Hill Victorian Town
Public Records Act 1838
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Reginald M. Phillips
the Queen
King Edward Building
St Paul's Cathedral

Stampex
Islington

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