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Rainbow over Mount Pleasant
Image: © Jim Osley
Taken: 26 Oct 2011
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Shop and K2 telephone box, Rosebery Avenue
Image: © Jim Osley
Taken: 23 Apr 2014
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Mount Pleasant, King's Cross Road
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Pleasant_Mail_Centre .
Image: © Mike Quinn
Taken: 2 May 2018
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Disused Tunnel to Whitechapel
The Royal Mail used a dedicated 2ft gauge underground railway to move mail between London sorting offices with the largest station centred on Mount Pleasant. Closed in 2003, the loop around Mount Pleasant has been re-opened as a tourist attraction. The image shows the tunnel that took the line towards the eastern Terminus at Whitechapel.
Image: © David Robinson
Taken: 30 Aug 2018
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Mount Pleasant Mail Centre
For a history the development of postal services at Mount Pleasant see this http://postalheritage.org.uk/page/mountpleasant. The building in the image was constructed in 1925-1926 to the designs of architect Albert Robert Myers.
Image: © Jim Osley
Taken: 12 Mar 2014
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Mail Rail - diverging tunnels
The layout around the Mount Pleasant sorting office is particularly complex, but essentially allows trains from either direction to loop round without having to reverse. Thanks to whoever put the layout on OpenStreetMap for geolocating this underground junction where one large diameter tunnel splits into two smaller ones.
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 1 Jun 2022
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Mount Pleasant sorting office
The largest of Royal Mail's sorting offices in London, this main building was designed by A R Myers and built 1925-1934. There are, or have been, other buildings on the site that was acquired by the Royal Mail in the 1880s, although part of it has been sold for housing development in recent years. Along the side are names of British towns and cities (Rugby, Bath, Wigan...) and above, in smaller letters, districts of London beginning with Clerkenwell where the sorting office is situated.
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 1 Jun 2022
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Entrance gate, Mount Pleasant Mail Centre
Image: © Jim Osley
Taken: 30 Apr 2014
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Mount Pleasant sorting office
The British Postal Museum is also housed here.
Image: © Robin Webster
Taken: 21 Nov 2015
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Mount Pleasant Sorting Office
Built 1934 on the site of a prison.
Image: © Jonathan Thacker
Taken: 17 Mar 2012
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