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General Post Office, London
The General Post Office in St. Martin's Le Grand (later known as GPO East) was the main post office for London between 1829 and 1912, the headquarters of the General Post Office of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the country's first purpose-built post office before it was demolished in 1912.
==History==
Originally known as the General Letter Office,〔 The London encyclopaedia. Christopher Hibbert, Ben Weinreb. 2008 p.660〕 the headquarters for the General Post Office was built on the eastern side of St. Martin's Le Grand in the City of London between 1825 and 1829 to designs by Robert Smirke.
This was the UK's first purpose-built post office.〔page 154, Living, Leisure and Law: Eight Building Types in England 1800-1914, Geoff Brandwood (Ed), 2010, Spire Books, ISBN 978-1-904965-27-5〕 It was built in the Grecian style with Ionic porticoes, and was long and deep. The building's main facade had a central hexastyle Greek Ionic portico with pediment, and two tetra style porticoes without pediments at each end. The main interior was the large letter-carriers room, with its elegant iron gallery and spiral staircase.〔page 473, John Summerson, ''Architecture in Britain 1530-1830'', 8th Edition 1991, Pelican Books〕
From 1868, the GPO experimented with the London Pneumatic Despatch Company services which operated a pneumatic tube from Euston railway station for the delivery of mail, but the experiment was unsuccessful and terminated in 1874.
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