Picture No | 12907060 |
Date | 1850 |
Description | Grand procession at Plymouth on first dispatch of Cape mails |
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Grand procession to celebrate the port of Plymouth opening up as a Government Mail-packet Station. The Corporations of Plymouth and Devonport conveyed the first dispatch of Cape mails from the Post Office in a grand procession (pictured) through the town to the Steamship Bosphorus, waiting to receive them.
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Source | Unattributed engraving in The Illustrated London News, 28 December 1850, p505 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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