Friday 27 August - While Ian is away I have decided to play the tourist and visit some of the sites that we haven't yet visited. First up was the Bath Postal Museum, which was a bit tricky to find as it is tucked into the basement of the current post office. It is a small museum but has a lot of information and interactive stations. I perforated my own set of souvenir stamps and learned about the post coaches and the different horn calls used along as signals along the narrow lanes by which the coaches travelled. It is said that the postmaster at Bath sent the first mail with the penny black stamp and was sent a letter by the first air mail service.
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