The purpose built Victorian Post Office of Newcastle, no longer in use as a post office.

Newcastle Straight Line cancel of 1752

1860 Plate 46 1d Red, Cancelled Newcastle-On-Tyne.

Post Office Map for Newcastle upon Tyne Newcastle upon Tyne, commonly known as Newcastle, and historically known as Newcastle-on-Tyne, is a city and metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, North East England, situated on the north bank of the River Tyne and centred 8.5 mi (13.7 km) from the North Sea. It is the most populous city in North East England. The city lies at the urban core of the Tyneside conurbation, which is the seventh most populous conurbation in the United Kingdom and the most populous in the North East region. Newcastle is a member of the English Core Cities Group and with Gateshead the Eurocities network of European cities. Newcastle was part of the county of Northumberland until 1400 when it became a county of itself; a status it retained until becoming part of the Tyne and Wear metropolitan county in 1974.

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Postal history

The Main Post office in Newcastle occupied a prominent site near the Castle on St. Nicholas Street. Newcastle was a very busy office, and because of this it was rewarded by the GPO and a grand building was constructed. Whilst the building remains in Newcastle it is no longer used for any Postal Operations.

Office Postmarks

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Block of 6 1d Red Die II Plate 50 cancelled in Newcastle.

Newcastle 973 Telegraph Code on 3d

NEWCASTLE ON TYNE. 1869 Code I

NEWCASTLE ON TYNE double arc 1853

545 Duplex of Newcastle-on-Tyne

545 Duplex of Newcastle-on-Tyne in 1870

545 Duplex of Newcastle-on-Tyne in 1864

Two Shilling Blue, Cancelled Newcastle-On-Tyne in 1872.

Circle in 1877

NEWCASTLE ON TYNE. Squared Circle 1894 Code 9V 6

NEWCASTLE ON TYNE. 545 duplex killer portion

NEWCASTLE ON TYNE. Squared Circle 1902 Code 6

Covers

1855 Newcastle upon tyne vertical sideways cancel, Reserve Plate 5 CJ 1d Red (C1)

Newcastle on Tyne to Bolam 15 Oct 1855, Die II plate 5 NH

1867 2d rated Current list sent from Newcastle to Cadiz, Spain with Plate 9 BD

Eichholtz & Co Current price list of 1867

Telegraph and Other cancels

Newcastle Telegraph Office

Newcastle was issued the standard circle numeral of 973.

Newcastle 973 on 1/- Green plate 5

Newcastle 973 on 3d

The Exchange buildings, Quayside

Newcastle held the Telegraph for the early shipping trade on the River tyne.

Newcastle on Tyne Quayside Telegraph Cancel

National Insurance Buildings

Newcastle has held the NI Buildings for over half a century. It still hosts the site of the Ministry of National Insurance at Benton, Newcastle. The ministry had their own Town Sub Office in the buildings by 1949, however it closed 19 June 1996.

NAT INSUE BLDGS : National Insurance Buildings Newcastle on Tyne on International Reply Coupons 1967

Edinr & Newcastle Sorting Tender

Part of the Great Britain Post Office functions was to use trains for distributing and sorting mail within the country. Special trains ran which had sorting carriages, they are classed as TPO (Travelling Post Offices)

Letter sent from Sunderland where the stamp was cancelled and on the reverse is the EDINR & NEWCASTLE SORTING TENDER as a transit mark.

Covers

Newcastle On Tyne, small ON type	1873 Newcastle on Tyne Registered (in red) and 18544 type 545 office cancels on a multi-franked cover. 4d registration rate pad with 2 x 2d blues plate 14, 1d rose-red, plate 140 and ½d rose-red bantam, plate 4.
NEWCASTLE on TYNE SHIP LETTER on Iceland postal card to Penzance, stamped on arrival.	NEWCASTLE ON TYNE Postal Card of 1878 Showing 545 duplex Code M.

Postcard Views

Newcastle on Tyne Bridges 1904 PC

1963 Newcastle upon Tyne to Sofia, BG

Newcastle City Branch Offices

The following were the Main Branch offices of the City of Newcastle. Codes after their names indicated the Telegraph sub-code for the Branch.

FOR ALL OTHER OFFICES BRANCH/SUB-OFFICES outside the City area but under the control of Newcastle see:

Newcastle (GB) Outer Branch & Sub-Offices.

Barras Bridge (A)

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Blackett Street (B)

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Heaton (H)

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Neville Street (D)

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Quayside (F)

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Outer Sub-Offices

Darras Hall Newcastle-on-Tyne, a large suburb to the north of Newcastle well known for its footballers houses. The Post Office is on Broadway.	Forest Hall Newcastle-on-Tyne, a suburb to the north east of Newcastle, post office is at Station Road.	Newburn a small village on the north bank of the tyne up river from Newcastle. It is famous for being one end of Stephensons first test railway.
Westgate Hill Post office on the main western road out of Newcastle. This road (A69) is a roman road leading 70 miles west to Carlisle.	Ponteland Post Office is 7 miles NW of the city centre.

Newcastle City Sub Offices

The following sub-offices were close to the city and its environs (3 mile radius), where a sub-office had Telegram or Telegraph facilities the code for the office under Newcastle is shown next to the name