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Van at crossroads, 1934

POST 118/1094
Opening of Mount Pleasant, 1934

POST 118/170
Telegram messenger, 1934

POST 118/69
Post Office Home Guard, 1941

POST 56/83
Telegram messengers, 1934

POST 118/70
Stamp cancelling machine, 1948

POST 118/1872
Ships Div’n, Mount Pleasant, 1945

POST 118/1546
Travelling Post Office, 1881

POST 118/792
Tibs the Great, 1954

M3/0W
Fish Wharf Post Office, 1936

POST 118/589

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