
Michael Sefi, the advisor and a world-respected authority on stamps and postal history, opens the reimagined post office at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire
© Bletchley Park Trust
© Bletchley Park Trust
After hostilities ended, the rooms became a sub-post office for thousands on training courses at the park, and during the 1990s it became a “gift shop”, pleasing collectors with hundreds of first day covers, starting with the 50th anniversary of the D-Day landings and going on to celebrate the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight and The Royal British Region.
Now the office has been refurbished as a place where visitors can make postcards and “secret” mail packs, sent from a mock-up wartime post office.
Michael Sefi, the Keeper of the astonishing Royal Philatelic Collection at St James’s Palace and an advisor to the Queen since 2003, unveiled the latest guise of this modest corner of Bletchley. It’s the latest twist in the tale of a tardis worth discovering.