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...

www.railforums.co.uk

 

[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!