Queen Victoria Postboxes
Queen Victoria Postboxes
I spotted a Queen Victoria postbox on my exercise ride today. How many of these long-standing antiques are still in use?
(And yes, I fear for my sanity.)
(And yes, I fear for my sanity.)
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I live on a street named after Queen Victoria and have a VR postbox on the corner! With a couple of others on nearby streets too.
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According to this
https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/royal-mail-post-boxes/heritage-agreement-for-royal-mail-post-boxes/#:~:text=More%20than%2060%25%20of%20current,%2C%20Victoria%2C%20and%20Edward%20VII.
The Queen has 60% of the total, George V 15% then in descending order, George VI, Victoria, Edward VII, Edward VIII has 171.
With a total of 115,500.
Maybe just aim to visit Edward VIII's.
My aim back in 2012 was to cycle to as many of the gold ones as possible, still haven't done many, haven't even done all the fairly easily reachable ones yet. Hence my name on here.
https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/royal-mail-post-boxes/heritage-agreement-for-royal-mail-post-boxes/#:~:text=More%20than%2060%25%20of%20current,%2C%20Victoria%2C%20and%20Edward%20VII.
The Queen has 60% of the total, George V 15% then in descending order, George VI, Victoria, Edward VII, Edward VIII has 171.
With a total of 115,500.
Maybe just aim to visit Edward VIII's.
My aim back in 2012 was to cycle to as many of the gold ones as possible, still haven't done many, haven't even done all the fairly easily reachable ones yet. Hence my name on here.
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Here is the VR post box at Harwich in Essex.
I have also seen the one in Rochester, Kent.
I have also seen the one in Rochester, Kent.
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ElaineB wrote:Here is the VR post box at Harwich in Essex.
I have also seen the one in Rochester, Kent.
Curious! Do you know why it's blue? Is there a story behind it?
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We've a couple where I live in Suffolk
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Bmblbzzz wrote:ElaineB wrote:Here is the VR post box at Harwich in Essex.
I have also seen the one in Rochester, Kent.
Curious! Do you know why it's blue? Is there a story behind it?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-48356512
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8276087/Postboxes-painted-blue-thank-NHS.html
... but no idea about that one.
Jonathan
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A rare example designed specifically to accept portrait post rather than the more common landscape mail.
High on a cocktail of flossy teacakes and marmalade
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gaz wrote:A rare example designed specifically to accept portrait post rather than the more common landscape mail.
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The OP might like to investigate the #PostboxSaturday tag on Twitter. My wife's into postbox-spotting, and has charged me with photographing at least one a week for that Twitter collection while I'm out on my solo rides. I have to admit it makes me notice different things in the local villages, which adds a bit of variety to the same old rides.
This is possibly the saddest-looking Victorian postbox I've spotted (not local, this was last year):
It's embedded in the parapet of a railway bridge.
For anyone wondering where it is, it's about half a mile from this famous church:
This is possibly the saddest-looking Victorian postbox I've spotted (not local, this was last year):
It's embedded in the parapet of a railway bridge.
For anyone wondering where it is, it's about half a mile from this famous church:
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Hmm, wild guess, is that Kilpeck in Herefordshire? Can't think of a railway, either live or dismantled, within half a mile of there though.
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Bmblbzzz wrote:Hmm, wild guess, is that Kilpeck in Herefordshire? Can't think of a railway, either live or dismantled, within half a mile of there though.
You win today's prize!
And yes, it's very much a live railway, running between Hereford and Abergavenny. No stations on it for miles, though.
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Ah, that line. And yes, I've been to that church. Also, I have the relevant OS map, which features those or similar carvings on the cover (though I think OS change their covers fairly frequently so it might not be on the latest issue).
I'll take my prize in cake.
I'll take my prize in cake.
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Loads of them here I reckon.
I must make a note of where.
I do know that there's one less than half a mile from here set into the front wall of a friend's house.
I must make a note of where.
I do know that there's one less than half a mile from here set into the front wall of a friend's house.
Mick F. Cornwall
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There is a very nice free standing hexagonal example in the village of Wormshill Kent - not far from the church.
I don't have a photograph but its on Google streetview.
A few years ago it was dragged out of the ground and taken away by a group of caravan dwellers.
Fortunately the police knew their location and rescued it before it went for scrap.
I don't have a photograph but its on Google streetview.
A few years ago it was dragged out of the ground and taken away by a group of caravan dwellers.
Fortunately the police knew their location and rescued it before it went for scrap.