Gravesend (GB) Northfleet

The original office at Northfleet was opened before 1801. A Penny Post with Gravesend commenced in 1814. It bacame a Money Order office 23 July 1851 and a Savings Bank Office 16 September 1861. It became a telegraph office in 1870 (code NFL) and was renamed Northfleet Hill on 1 January 1886.

On the same day Upper Northfleet was renamed Northfleet. It was a Money Order and Savings Bank office, also a telegraph office keeping the code NFL. By July 1890 it was a sub-office and on 1 August 1891 a town sub-office of Gravesend with a new telegraph code, GNQ.

Period 1, to 1 January 1886

Northfleet / Penny Post on 18 February 1841 entire to Bexley Heath. Paid 1d in cash (in red manuscript)

20mm thimble on reverse of envelope from Northfleet to London 29 July 1870

20mm thimble on reverse of entire from Northfleet to Norway 4 November 1869. 7d rate. 4d accountancy mark in red showing amount due to Denmark. This rate only applied 12 July 1869 to 1 July 1870.

Period 2, from 1 January 1886

Postcard used 1932

Postcard used 1925. Published by LJ Rodway, Post Office, North Fleet.

Envelope addressed to Northfleet, Kent, redirected to Gravesend. On reverse is a Northfleet c.d.s. and a Gravesend squared circle, both 27 September 1890, The duplex was added on forwarding.