Adhesive postage stamps came into service in May 1840 and British stamps were used for postal purposes for over the next 100 years. In 1852, at the instigation of the Post Office surveyor Anthony Trollope, the novelist, the first roadside letter boxes erected in the British Isles were installed in St Helier.
Newspaper records
Further articles
- Postal history, the early years A duo of different histories to the set above
- Postal history, later on
- Early postal service to the Channel Islands
- Postal services to France
- Early history of post boxes
- Post box design
- 1969 to present day
- Jersey stamp issues
- Channel Island Mailboats and passenger vessels
This letter was sent from Jersey to Nantes, via St Malo, in 1850 ...
... this one from England to Jersey in 1853 ...
... this one to Jersey from Guernsey in 1856 ...
...and this one from Jersey to Plymouth in 1844 ...
... followed by another to the same address in 1857 ...
... this one from Jersey to St Malo in 1851 ...
... and this one from Jersey to Cognac in 1842 ...
... and this one from Jersey to Hamburg in 1841 ...
Penny Black on a letter sent from Jersey in 1841
