Post your Post Boxes! (Photos and fun facts)

[Sun Chariot]

Well that's the first pillar box I've seen sited between two adjacent parts of a wall! Great find B!

 

[weepingwillowb]

Here's a couple I photographed while walking from Euston to Paddington. First one is outside Madame Tussauds, Marylebone Road.

The second is outside what used to be a post office on Lisson Grove, and as I was using an old AZ street atlas to make sure I found Paddington station, I saw a post office was marked nearby.

 

[High Dyke]

Found this one whilst walking in Essex on Wednesday. Rainham post office (Essex).

In 1974 the Post Office experimented with a similar rectangular design known as Type G. This was made in traditional cast iron by the foundry of Carron Company near Falkirk, Scotland. It was an operational success, but the public disliked the "square" designs and petitioned the Post Office for a return to cylindrical boxes.
Image: Type G post box

 

[Sun Chariot]

Good spot @High Dyke - the Type G (which sought to remedy the Type F's failings - info linked) are surprisingly uncommon now and I know of only three in southern Hampshire.

Post your Post Boxes! (Photos and fun facts)

The building's no longer there, but the box still is...

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[WesternLancer]

Found this one whilst walking in Essex on Wednesday. Rainham post office (Essex).

In 1974 the Post Office experimented with a similar rectangular design known as Type G. This was made in traditional cast iron by the foundry of Carron Company near Falkirk, Scotland. It was an operational success, but the public disliked the "square" designs and petitioned the Post Office for a return to cylindrical boxes.
View attachment 213534 Image: Type G post box

Certainly interesting to see that. Great spot!

 

[weepingwillowb]

On Station Road, Okehampton, Devon. Anyone know what the adjacent red box might be?

 

[Sun Chariot]

It's been nearly 20 years since I last walked along that same road @weepingwillowb !

The adjacent secure box is used by Royal Mail to drop off postal delivery loads from a van, before the on-foot postal round starts; often where a postal round is farther away from the district sorting-office.

 

[weepingwillowb]

It's been nearly 20 years since I last walked along that same road @weepingwillowb !

The adjacent secure box is used by Royal Mail to drop off postal delivery loads from a van, before the on-foot postal round starts; often where a postal round is farther away from the district sorting-office.

Thank you! Don't think I've ever seen one of those before.

Very nice day out at Okehampton, Crediton, and Newton St Cyres.

 

[Ashley Hill]

On Station Road, Okehampton, Devon. Anyone know what the adjacent red box might be?

Extra mail can be put in there for the postman to deliver. Back in the 70s such post was left in our back shed. Our local postman would call in about 0800 to refill his bag and have a cup of tea.

 

[Sun Chariot]

Extra mail can be put in there for the postman to deliver. Back in the 70s such post was left in our back shed. Our local postman would call in about 0800 to refill his bag and have a cup of tea.

Brilliant back-story G!

Very nice day out at Okehampton, Crediton, and Newton St Cyres.

Okehampton station, I arrived there on a class 150 Sprinter, from Exeter Central. Summer 2009, B. A delightfully surreal moment, as I felt I'd time-travelled!

 

[weepingwillowb]

Exeter Road post office, Crediton, Devon. It closed in 2008.

Extra mail can be put in there for the postman to deliver. Back in the 70s such post was left in our back shed. Our local postman would call in about 0800 to refill his bag and have a cup of tea.

Thanks!

 

[Sun Chariot]

What a fabulous find B!

 

[weepingwillowb]

I have to confess that because I knew I'd be going to Crediton, I'd looked on Street View for post boxes there beforehand.