Queen Victoria Postboxes

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That's a lovely place (even without the postbox).
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Bmblbzzz wrote: 28 Jul 2021, 9:15am That's a lovely place (even without the postbox).
Characterful - lovely fungal growth on the stone.

Old David Dickinson trick: buy a terracotta pot or stone statue or whatever out of Aldi or wherever and paint it with natural yoghurt. Within a few weeks you'll have 'aged' it by about fifty years and quadrupled its value. :wink:
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Spotted another one yesterday, at Ivychurch, sited in the wall outside the church.
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This one in on the outskirts of Porthtowan.
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Appears to be repurposed as someone's private letter box.
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Hence no longer red.
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Not Victorian, but a less common Edward VII pillar box in Walthamstow, still in use.
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My latest from East Harptree on the edge of the Mendip south of Bristol taken yesterday. Clearly still in use despite being the recipient of several 'adaptions' over its life time!
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By pure chance, I've seen this thread on returning from holiday. We saw this box at Shrewsbury Abbey - I'm pretty sure the logo is a stylised VR: https://goo.gl/maps/V7KfnuV8k2qgjuac6

We also saw this combined phone and post box in Frodsham (Cheshire): https://goo.gl/maps/AZoH45n9TWYoxZFY9

And to continue the OT sub-thread:
ElaineB wrote: 24 Feb 2021, 8:43am Sorry roberts8 for the delay in answering your question re my bike.
It’s a Tern X30 aluminium folding bike and has 20” wheels. Very useful for getting on and off small ferry boats, like the ones that operate in Suffolk. I don’t actually have to fold it as it’s quite light. I’ve done some short ‘light’ touring on it where I have stayed in yha’s.
Very much like my Tern X18, which I suspect is just an earlier variant, pictured here at Ingatestone:
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deeferdonk wrote: 20 Feb 2021, 2:23pm I remember seeing one in use in Dublin but had been painted green.
Reviving this topic...

I'm in Cork at the moment & came across this one while out for a walk.
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I also saw a green GR one this evening near where we are staying. Is that likely to be older or newer? It looks in better condition so it may be a George V one from shortly before Irish independence. I'll take a photo in daylight before we leave.
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We could expand this thread to include old phone boxes too.
Here's the one at Tyneham in Dorset. A K1 model
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RickH wrote: 20 Nov 2021, 9:41pm
deeferdonk wrote: 20 Feb 2021, 2:23pm I remember seeing one in use in Dublin but had been painted green.
Reviving this topic...

I'm in Cork at the moment & came across this one while out for a walk.

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I also saw a green GR one this evening near where we are staying. Is that likely to be older or newer? It looks in better condition so it may be a George V one from shortly before Irish independence. I'll take a photo in daylight before we leave.
Postboxes were a Victorian invention, so the GR postbox would be from the reign of George V.
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Bmblbzzz wrote: 21 Nov 2021, 1:03pmPostboxes were a Victorian invention...
*British pillar boxes were, and they may have been the first pillar boxes anywhere, but post boxes are much older.

Jonathan

* I think that's true regardless of how you classify the Channel Islands... ; -)
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