Post Codes

[DFA]

When were post codes introduced in the United Kingdom?

[Jenny Tools]

Not sure when but if memory serves me right Bromley in Kent was the first place to have a postcode (BR1)  

[Hippy]

I left London in 1972 and I don't remember the new style postcodes then. I lived in Scotland for a bit and when I returned in April 1974 there they were, all compulsory with GPO adverts to "Remember the postcode!"

 

I could never remember the second part of mine just the first bit that was the same as the old system (N1 isn't hard).

 

[Bob Carter]

Click on History and Myths and write the word 'postcodes' in the category search box. And travel back in time to 2003!