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Dear Editor, - What good news it is that I read that after 125 years the Postal Order is to be revamped by the Post Office due to its increasing popularity ( Post, 27th April). On the January 1, 1881, Great Britain was the first country in the world to issue Postal Orders, but it was a pity that the article made no mention of the fact that the idea of the Postal Order was conceived in industrial Birmingham, not in the financial capital of London.
John Skirrow Wright was President of the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce and was involved in the development of Postal Orders. Sadly Skirrow Wright is a man who in Birmingham's current consciousness has all but disappeared and yet he was omnipresent in much of the benevolent aspects of Birmingham's mid-Victorian life. The General Hospital, The School of Art, the Children's Hospital and the early Birmingham Hospital Saturday Fund and the Blue Coat School, to name but a few, were all blessed by his active allegiance in time as well as his money.See the full content of this document
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Visionary and Pioneer of the Postal Order
The rich had bank accounts and could write cheques. John Skirrow Wright and some other members of the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce...
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