Strike not affecting Victorian town

Thursday 22nd October 2009, 8:08AM BST.

House manager Chris White launches the new permanent exhibition by The Postal Museum and Archive.

Householders across the country may be facing two days of disruption to mail deliveries.

But the “residents” of a Shropshire tourist spot will not be affected thanks to the opening of a new attraction.

Characters from Blists Hill Victorian Town were still able to post and receive mail between each other following the opening of the Museum of the Post Office in the Community at the Ironbridge site this week.

The attraction is the first ever contemporary exhibition at the Blists Hill site and is being put on by the British Postal Museum & Archive (BPMA).

For the past year the BPMA has been working in partnership with Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust to recreate a working Victorian post office on the site, and the exhibition will be sited on the floor above.

It explores the role of the post office in the community through four broad areas – post office counter services, delivering the mail, letter boxes and changing times.

BPMA spokewoman Jenny Karlsson said: “It will look at the services the post office has provided over the years and how these have changed, the different ways mail has been delivered in the community and the important and central role the post office has played.”

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