Postal services 1858-1969

Postal services
1858-1969

Halkett Place Post Office

After spells of being housed in Bond Street and Halkett Place, the Island’s main post office opened in Broad Street on 21 June 1909. It was home to the entire Post Office, and would be for many years. This included the collection, sorting and delivery operations, with bicycles being introduced into the operation in the early part of the century and motorised vehicles being introduced in the 1930s

Further articles

• Postal history up to 1794
• Postal history 1794-1830
• Postal history 1830-1858

• 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
• The Occupation years
• 1969 to present day
• Jersey stamp issues
• Channel Island Mailboats and passenger vessels

Halkett Place Post Office in the late 19th century

The Halkett Place Post Office on a 1990 stamp

The Broad Street Post Office on a 1990 stamp

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  Post Office staff in the early 20th century
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  Jersey Post Office staff in 1907
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  Another picture inside Halkett Place Post Office sorting room
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  The sorting office in 1925
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  Gorey Post Office in 1924
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  Halkett Place Post Office around the turn of the 19th century
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  A gas lit sorting office in 1910
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  The first airmail arrives on 1 June 1937 - Picture Evening Post
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  Postmen in 1905
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  David Place postbox
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  Postwomen in 1947
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  An advertisement announcing the new letter boxes
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  Postbox
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  Postbox
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  Postbox
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  Cycle deliveries
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  Post Office Morris van in 1963
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  Morris Van at Bonne Nuit
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  An outing for postal staff on a Tantivy charabanc
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  The search for a new post office location in 1903
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  Post Office staff in 1915

Then and Now - 1930s

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  Advertising the new airmail service in 1938
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  A GPO van
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  Emptying a postbox
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  The sorting office
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  Postman Albert Brown
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  Deliveries in Bath Street
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  Early 20c postmen
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  One of the first four postboxes
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  Early postmen
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  Halkett Place Post Office
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  Postal staff in 1916
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  Writing room in 1952
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  Sorting office in the 1950s
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  Sorting office in 1925
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  Telegram boys in 1914
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  Telegram boy
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  Sorting office
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  Sorting office
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  Sorting office, 1925
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  Sorting office
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  An early staff outing
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  Post Office football XI, 1904-05 season
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  Retirement of Mr Marquis, 1907
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  Charabanc outing
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  Early postman
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  Early postmen
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  Sorting office
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  Telegram boys
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  Mail arrives at the Airport
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  Mail arrives at the Harbour
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  Thomas Camp, a popular postman at Gorey
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  A letter sent from Chile to jersey in 1932, initially on the airship Graf Zeppelin
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  Postcard from India, 1897 ...
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  ... and the message
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  A letter to Amsterdam in 1858
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  A card sent from Jersey to Cahors in SW France in 1874
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  Letter posted from Jersey to Paris, via Granville, in 1884
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  A postcard sent to Paris in 1899
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  There was considerable opposition to the move of the Post Office to Broad Street in 1903
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  A letter sent from Persia to ...
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  ... the steward of the United Club in St Helier in 1930
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  A letter posted in 1946 with a very rare combination of a Jersey stamp printed during the Occupation and English stamps which again became available afterwards
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  A letter sent from Jersey to St Malo in 1860
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  One of the first airmail letters to leave Jersey
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  A postcard sent on the first Transatlantic air mail service in 1939

A letter sent from Jersey to Tubingen in Germany in 1861, via England and Calais. Presumably it reached its destination, despite the mis-spelling of the name