Queen Victoria Postboxes
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I remember seeing one in use in Dublin but had been painted green.
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I saw one in Belfast on the Crumlin Road that was orange!
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Here's a well kept hexagonal Victorian post box in Folkestone, Kent.
195 A2033
https://maps.app.goo.gl/RrrVaBB4oynQd1Fk7
195 A2033
https://maps.app.goo.gl/RrrVaBB4oynQd1Fk7
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We have few near me so I may base a ride on them. I really like the look of ElaineB bike, what is it please?
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Its a Tern folding bike.
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One more. This time it is a local one, from my Boxing Day ride (note seasonal holly bush) and it is still technically in use - though given its position on a blind bend on a fast road, the fact that it's tucked away and the sparsity of nearby cottages, I'm not sure how many letters it actually receives. It's attached to the side wall of a cottage. It must be an early one as it has a swing flap to keep the elements out. East Tytherley, Hants.
I must have cycled past it more than a hundred times, but I never really noticed it until I was challenged to come back with pictures of postboxes.
I must have cycled past it more than a hundred times, but I never really noticed it until I was challenged to come back with pictures of postboxes.
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The blue VR postbox is on Harwich Railway Station. I have no idea why it’s blue!
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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.
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.
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ElaineB wrote:The blue VR postbox is on Harwich Railway Station. I have no idea why it’s blue!
Is that at Harwich International, next to the port?
If so could it be a comparator for passports?
Jonathan
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Gosport has a Hexagonal, Penfold Design, VR Post box
It's Grade 2 listed, and one of only 20 still in existence.
https://historicgosport.uk/post-boxes/
It's Grade 2 listed, and one of only 20 still in existence.
https://historicgosport.uk/post-boxes/
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Today I had to go into town for a medical thing. I took this on Parade, Berwick upon Tweed.
John
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Neyland, Pembrokeshire
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Saw this real example of snail mail whilst cycling near Ripon a year or so ago. Many years ago I occasionally used a box which had a 'snail guard' fitted.
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JDSK....No the VR blue post box is at the end of the only platform at Harwich Town Railway Station. Not the International station at the port.