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# If you're new here, introduce yourself and say hello. Tell us a bit about: • Where you're based • Which areas you enjoy exploring • Whether you're interested in local history, postboxes, walking, photography, geocaching, Wa...
Seems to be painted with anti-climb paint.
Gold Postbox, Cardiff Castle Royal Mail celebrated every gold medal won by a British athlete during the London 2012 Olympic Games by repainting one of their iconic red pillar boxes gold for each gold medal winning Olympian. This one hono...
Double Pouch box on the rear.
K Type shows Abbot Eng Paisley on the rear of the base.
Plaque showing replica details is missing.
Reproduction with plaque still in place
This postbox is no longer in use and the picture that has been accepted is not the box in Hanover Buildings, Southampton. The postbox is at the top of a slope by a road. Hope this helps.
Thus us a replacement VR Anonymous low aperture box for one originally siited further down Lexden Rd towards the City which was destroyed in an RTA
I visited this post box about a week before the original item was listed, glad to see the door was returned! I believe the manufacturer is Cochrane, and it's an original, rather than a reproduction?
Another upgrade without an official identification plate.
I think this is the first Type D that's in the wild we've had added! Fantastic!
I am pretty sure that this postbox is not in New Broad Street at the indicated location. If the postbox is viewed in Google Street View, the cipher on the sides of the postbox can just about be seen as "VR". Also, the background of the s...
Wow! Didn't know they painted any Penfolds gold
Posters, on the front of the box, advise: Coronation Aerial Post On 9th September 1911, Gustav Hamel took off from Hendon Aerodrome in his frail Blériot monoplane to inaugurate the first United Kingdom aerial post and landed in Shaw Far...
Looks like it may have been an Air Mail box originally, blue showing through and the sign 'holes' on the cap?
A nearby plaque reads: This Pillar Box Cast in 1856 in the shape of a Doric column at the Eagle Foundry of Messrs Smith and Hawkes, Broad Street, Birmingham, is one of a pair installed at the East and West Gates of Warwick.
No longer gold?
Replica by Machan Engineering dated 1998.
Lichen growing golden on the red Udimore post box. Hedgerow flowers in its alcove - Blackthorn blossom and Hawthorn in bud.
I visited this lovely box the other day and was disappointed that I couldn't get any closer; and to see how it was being used. I shall have to return once the construction is completed!
Lovely 😍
This Edward VIII post box is sited outside one of the main entrances to Stanley Park in Blackpool by the junction of West Park Drive and Mawson Drive.
Love this!
Looks like that lifting eye isn't quite sturdy enough for a type C 🤔
This is fun, love the stickers.
Rare Nigerian box, you can just see the lack of fluting on the cap under the Wallace and Gromet topper.
Photographed in 2009. Still visible on Street View.
Conversion to smart box started 10/03/26
With stamp box