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..... U.K ..... the FIRST Sunday Service was held in the new St Paul’s Cathedral 1766 ..... U.K ..... the famous auctioneers, Christies of London, held their FIRST sale 1927 ..... U.K ..... the FIRST train delivering mail for the Post Office set off on its maiden journey and marked the inauguration of the FIRST fully automated railway anywhere in the world 1952 ..... U.K ..... the FIRST British stamps showing the Queen were issued and in June 1953 were followed by the Coronation stamps 1956 ….. U.K ..... Judy Grinham became the FIRST Briton to win an Olympic swimming title since Lucy Morton in 1924 when she set a new world record of 1 min 12.9 secs 1958 ..... U.K ..... the FIRST motorway in Britain, the 8 1/2 mile Preston by-pass, was opened by Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. It had cost £3,750,000 to build and had taken two years. A few hours after it opened Harold Bradshaw became the FIRST casualty when he fell 40’ from a bridge onto the motorway and was seriously injured. It was closed on 21st January 1959 due to frost damage ..... and ..... Britain’s FIRST STD telephone service FIRST began when the Queen dialled direct to Edinburgh’s Lord Provost, Ian Johnson-Gilbert. Bristol was the FIRST city to have access to it
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