Explore
Explore topics
Themed ways into the collection: highlights and listings, private and overseas boxes, street furniture, stamps, Halstead Post Office, and more.
Prefer to browse chronologically? Open By monarch for every reign gallery, including the “more boxes” pages.
Start here
Highlights, the full listing, and the reign index.
- Collection highlights The best starting point: galleries by reign, then private boxes, overseas examples, and related features.
- Post box listing An inventory of boxes in the museum, with type codes, makers, and curator notes.
- By monarch The full chronological index of reign pages, from Victoria through Charles III.
Themes
Specialist subjects within the wider postal history collection.
- Private posting boxes Boxes used by businesses and institutions rather than on the public highway. Open
- Overseas boxes British-made and British-designed boxes from across the former Empire, and other overseas types. Open
- Street jewellery Street furniture and related artefacts that sit alongside the letter box collection. Open
- Post boxes on stamps Letter boxes as they appear in philately, with examples from the museum’s holdings. Open
- Post Office direction signs PODS and related signs from the 1930s onwards, including telephone direction signs. Open
- George V signatures Foundry and maker signatures on George V wall boxes, compared side by side. Open
Local story
Halstead’s own postal history, tied to the museum’s home town.