'File 14/4 Post Office at Moharraq'

Title:

'File 14/4 Post Office at Moharraq'

Date:

1928/1949

Description:

Abstract: The file contains correspondence and telegrams regarding the need for facilities to convey mail at Moharraq (Muharraq, Bahrain) and the subsequent arrangements for the opening of a Post Office, staffed with a postman sent from Manama via boat twice a week to make deliveries, clean the letterbox and sell stamps. A sketch of the building rented to host the Post Office at Muharraq is on folio 77.The file also discusses the proposal to open a branch telegraph Office of the Wireless in the Bazaar at Manama, which is refused by the Imperial and International Communications Limited.The correspondents are: the Superintendent of Post Offices, Lower Sind and Persian Gulf Division, at Karachi; Imperial and International Communications Limited, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain; the Sub-Postmaster at Bahrain; and the Political Agent at Bahrain.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 97; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 3-88; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence.

Language:

English

Type:

Archival file

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Postal services

Geographic region:

Moharraq

Rights:

غير معروف

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100000000282.0x000098_ar
81055/vdc_100000000282.0x000098_en
IOR/R/15/2/1417
IOR/R/15/2/1417

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