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Published by TIMES GROUP<br />
Bermuda Post Office<br />
Bicentennial 1812 ~ 2012<br />
GOVERNMENT OF BERMUDA<br />
Ministry of Economy, Trade & Industry<br />
Phone: 441 292 1234<br />
The life of Bermuda's first Postmaster, Mr. William Bennett Perot, is<br />
closely linked to the history of the City of Hamilton. His family<br />
built their home, which currently houses the Bermuda Historical<br />
Society and the Bermuda National Library, on the edge of what is<br />
now Par-la-Ville Park. The house and surrounding property were<br />
purchased by the Corporation of Hamilton in 1900.<br />
Postmaster Perot, a pragmatic thinker, created a stamp which<br />
bears his signature. His ingenuity makes the Perot stamp, highly<br />
sought after by philatelic collectors around the world.<br />
Residents and historians alike can visit the Perot Post Office,<br />
which looks as it did when it was owned and operated by William<br />
Perot. Located on Queen Street, thi<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 1" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=1"> Published by TIMES GROUP Bermuda Post Office Bic</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 2" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=2"> Phone: 441 292 1234</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 3" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=3"> The life of Bermuda's first Postmaster, Mr. Willi</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 4" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=4"> </a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 5" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=5"> Credits Bermuda Post Office Bicentennial 1812 ~ </a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 6" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=6"> Congratulations ON T H E BE RM UDA </a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 7" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=7"> Contents Contents 7 Preface </a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 8" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=8"> National Treasure The NATIONAL MUSEUM OF BERMUDA </a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 9" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=9"> Preface Preface S </a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 10" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=10"> </a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 11" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=11"> Foreword Foreword O </a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 12" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=12"> Foreword Another project involving the in</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 13" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=13"> Global Connections To and From ... Bermuda </a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 14" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=14"> Congratulations on your 200 years of service to B</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 15" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=15"> Introduction Introduction O </a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 16" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=16"> Introduction Another aspect of the Bermud</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 17" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=17"> In this economy, every penny counts. CALL TOPS </a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 18" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=18"> Acknowledgements Acknowledgements T </a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 19" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=19"> Time Line Time Line of Key Events in th</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 20" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=20"> Time Line 1818 William Perot is appointed</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 21" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=21"> Time Line 1901-2 About 4,600 Boer prisone</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 22" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=22"> Time Line 1982 Gary Phillips becomes the </a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 23" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=23"> Prologue Prologue O </a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 24" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=24"> Bermuda Philately 1848 Perot First Issue. SG 01 </a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 25" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=25"> Chapter One The 1812 Overture T </a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 26" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=26"> 21/2d postage stamp depicting Sir George Somers a</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 27" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=27"> Chapter One other conveniences for the accomm</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 28" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=28"> Chapter Two A Bermuda Post Office in Fits and S</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 29" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=29"> Chapter Two O n 6 M</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 30" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=30"> FOCUS ON: The Rise and Fall of Bermuda's First </a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 31" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=31"> Chapter Two caused some difficulty with this </a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 32" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=32"> FOCUS ON: James Taylor, a Man of Sterling Worth</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 33" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=33"> Chapter Two In November 1818, a new postmaste</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 34" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=34"> Chapter Two Courtesy: Horst Augustinovic FOCUS </a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 35" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=35"> Chapter Two mail would arrive. Voyages were o</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 36" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=36"> Chapter Three </a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 37" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=37"> Chapter Three The Post Office Gathers Steam F</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 38" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=38"> FOCUS ON: William Facey A Former Convict Carri</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 39" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=39"> Chapter Three The Royal N</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 40" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=40"> Chapter Three FOCUS ON: The Horse Ferry </a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 41" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=41"> Chapter Three Mail Contracts East and West Th</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 42" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=42"> Chapter Three Sailing ship at sea. Bermuda </a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 43" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=43"> Chapter Three Overseas Mail Beginning in the </a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 44" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=44"> FOCUS ON: The Wreck of the Curlew March 1856: B</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 45" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=45"> Chapter Four The Post Office on the Move T </a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 46" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=46"> Chapter Four FOCUS ON: Confederate Georgiana</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 47" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=47"> Chapter Four boom came to an abrupt end. Howe</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 48" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=48"> Chapter Four FOCUS ON: Letter Boxes – Fine P</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 49" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=49"> Chapter Four Receiving houses were also menti</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 50" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=50"> Chapter Four The Royal Gazette, however, was </a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 51" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=51"> Chapter Four Courtesy: Stanley Gibbons Unhappil</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 52" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=52"> Chapter Four A number of Turner's requirement</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 53" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=53"> Chapter Five The Post Office Moves into the 20th</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 54" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=54"> Chapter Five FOCUS ON: Early Bermudian Postc</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 55" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=55"> Chapter Five seconded from the Prospect Garri</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 56" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=56"> FOCUS ON: Miss Claudia Darrell, Sub Postmistres</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 57" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=57"> Just as she was leaving New York on a foggy after</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 58" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=58"> Chapter Five </a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 59" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=59"> Chapter Five The First Seaplane to Fly to and</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 60" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=60"> Chapter Five Bermuda would also benefit from </a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 61" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=61"> Chapter Five Like many Bermudians, he was soo</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 62" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=62"> Mail lands at Hamilton for censorship during the </a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 63" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=63"> Chapter Five transit mail bound for Europe co</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 64" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=64"> Chapter Six </a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 65" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=65"> Chapter Six The Bermuda Post Office and Desegreg</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 66" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=66"> Chapter Six FOCUS ON: The Post Office Adverti</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 67" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=67"> Chapter Six FOCUS ON: Phyllis Basden Phylli</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 68" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=68"> Chapter Six As J. Randolf Williams stated in </a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 69" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=69"> Chapter Six FOCUS ON: Gary Phillips Gary Ph</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 70" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=70"> Chapter Six </a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 71" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=71"> Chapter Seven The Changing Face of the Post Offi</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 72" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=72"> Chapter Seven </a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 73" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=73"> Chapter Seven Hamilton's Waits until 1967 for</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 74" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=74"> Sculptures by Desmond Fountain outside City Hall </a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 75" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=75"> Chapter Seven Employees at the Post Office wo</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 76" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=76"> Chapter Seven But their salaries were low, ra</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 77" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=77"> Chapter Seven Post Codes For most of the 20th</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 78" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=78"> Chapter Eight </a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 79" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=79"> Chapter Eight A Challenging Era for the Bermuda </a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 80" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=80"> Hurricane Fabian led to the closure of the Airpor</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 81" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=81"> Chapter Eight opened the gate to private cour</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 82" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=82"> Chapter Eight contender in the marketplace, o</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 83" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=83"> Chapter Eight </a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 84" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=84"> Chapter Eight delivering their mail within th</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 85" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=85"> Chapter Nine The Story of Bermuda's Stamps B </a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 86" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=86"> Chapter Nine With the sale of adhesive postag</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 87" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=87"> Chapter Nine Courtesy: Bermuda Philatelic Bureau</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 88" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=88"> Chapter Nine Courtesy: Horst Augustinovic reign</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 89" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=89"> Chapter Nine except for his portrait, now fac</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 90" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=90"> Chapter Nine Bermuda's First Commemorative St</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 91" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=91"> Chapter Nine Philately, remembered that it wa</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 92" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=92"> Chapter Nine FOCUS ON: Collections of Bermud</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 93" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=93"> Chapter Nine Stamps as Messengers of History </a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 94" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=94"> </a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 95" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=95"> Appendix I Appendix I A List of Po</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 96" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=96"> Appendix II Appendix II A List of </a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 97" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=97"> Appendix II St. George's Parish In 1866 t</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 98" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=98"> Appendix II Devonshire Originally, there </a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 99" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=99"> Appendix II Warwick In the past Warwick b</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 100" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=100"> Bibliography Bibliography Arnell, </a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 101" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=101"> Bibliography Bermuda National Trust Bermu</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 102" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=102"> Bibliography Jones, Rosemary Bermuda Five</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 103" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=103"> the day-date ii</a>
<a title="BPO Bicentennial 1812-2012 page 104" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/c4efaafc?page=104"> BERMUDA BERMUDA BELCO 100 years of serv</a>