2-791-397 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Secret-Office, at the General Post Office, 1844. Workers at the main post office at St Martin's Le Grand in London. 'The sensation produced by the recent cases of letters being opened at the General Post-office, by the authority of the Secretary of State for the Home Department, has induced us to engrave, for the gratification of our readers, the identical apartment in which this extraordinary power is exercised'. From "Illustrated London News", 1844, Vol I.