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Re: Queen Victoria Postboxes
Posted: 28 Jul 2021, 9:15am
by Bmblbzzz
That's a lovely place (even without the postbox).
Re: Queen Victoria Postboxes
Posted: 28 Jul 2021, 4:25pm
by kylecycler
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.
Re: Queen Victoria Postboxes
Posted: 28 Jul 2021, 9:31pm
by rich.hr6
Here's my brush with royalty, just outside Kingsland on the back road to Shobdon.
[Herefordshire in case you're wondering].
One should always have a matching mode of transport.
Re: Queen Victoria Postboxes
Posted: 31 Jul 2021, 10:34am
by Philip Benstead
Re: Queen Victoria Postboxes
Posted: 10 Oct 2021, 5:00pm
by Invicta Tourist
Spotted another one yesterday, at Ivychurch, sited in the wall outside the church.
Re: Queen Victoria Postboxes
Posted: 26 Oct 2021, 4:24pm
by peetee
This one in on the outskirts of Porthtowan.
Re: Queen Victoria Postboxes
Posted: 26 Oct 2021, 6:34pm
by Bmblbzzz
Appears to be repurposed as someone's private letter box.
Re: Queen Victoria Postboxes
Posted: 26 Oct 2021, 11:49pm
by DaveReading
Hence no longer red.
Re: Queen Victoria Postboxes
Posted: 27 Oct 2021, 11:38am
by LollyKat
Not Victorian, but a less common Edward VII pillar box in Walthamstow, still in use.
Re: Queen Victoria Postboxes
Posted: 27 Oct 2021, 5:31pm
by foxyrider
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!
Re: Queen Victoria Postboxes
Posted: 29 Oct 2021, 8:36pm
by drossall
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:
Re: Queen Victoria Postboxes
Posted: 20 Nov 2021, 9:41pm
by RickH
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.
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.
Re: Queen Victoria Postboxes
Posted: 20 Nov 2021, 10:13pm
by rjb
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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Re: Queen Victoria Postboxes
Posted: 21 Nov 2021, 1:03pm
by Bmblbzzz
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.
Re: Queen Victoria Postboxes
Posted: 21 Nov 2021, 1:08pm
by Jdsk
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... ; -)