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  2. Electrical telegraphy in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Post Office Telegraphs, the branch of the Post Office running the telegraph network, located their head office in Telegraph Street in the old ETC building. [194] "The ever open door" was their slogan above the entrance. [195] Immediately after nationalisation, they set about extending the telegraph from outlying railway stations to town centres.

  3. Telegraph boy - Wikipedia

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    The UK's GPO (General Post Office) Telegram messenger motorbike of the 1940sIn many English-speaking countries, a telegram delivery boy, telegraph boy or telegram boy was a young man employed to deliver telegrams, usually on bicycle.

  4. General Post Office - Wikipedia

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    The General Post Office (GPO) [1] was the state postal system and telecommunications carrier of the United Kingdom until 1969. [2] Established in England in the 17th century, the GPO was a state monopoly covering the dispatch of items from a specific sender to a specific receiver (which was to be of great importance when new forms of communication were invented); it was overseen by a ...

  5. Telegraphy - Wikipedia

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    The most successful creator of an electromagnetic induction telegraph system was William Preece, chief engineer of Post Office Telegraphs of the General Post Office (GPO) in the United Kingdom. Preece first noticed the effect in 1884 when overhead telegraph wires in Grays Inn Road were accidentally carrying messages sent on buried cables.

  6. BT Archives - Wikipedia

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    These are documented in the records of the Post Office telegraph and telephone service 1864-1969 and the Post Office Corporation (Telecommunications division) 1969-1981. From 1 October 1981, British Telecommunications, trading as British Telecom, severed its links with the Post Office and became a totally separate public corporation. Records of ...

  7. Electric Telegraph Company - Wikipedia

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    The Electric Telegraph Company formed the largest component of the resulting state monopoly run by the GPO. [51] In 1969 Post Office Telecommunications was made a distinct department of the Post Office, [52] and in 1981 it was separated entirely from the Post Office as British Telecom. [53]

  8. Telegraph Act 1868 - Wikipedia

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    The Telegraph Act 1868 [1] (31 & 32 Vict. c. 110) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It paved the way for the British state to take over telegraph companies and/or their operations. It has been effectively repealed (only section 1, providing the short title remains in force). It was one of Post Office Acts 1837 to 1895. [2]

  9. CS Alert (1890) - Wikipedia

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    In 1890 the Submarine Telegraph Company was nationalised when the General Post Office (GPO) was given a monopoly of the telegraph in the UK. [9] The GPO took over operation of the ship and renamed it Alert. [10] In 1902, Alert laid the St. Margaret's Bay, England – La Panne, Belgium 2-telephone cable manufactured by Siemens. [11]