

PhilipInCoventry Holbrooks All posts by this member | 1 of 35 Wed 27th Aug 2014 1:02pm Moderator: Joined Apr 2010 Total posts:4237 Hi all ![]() ![]() |
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Dreamtime Perth Western Australia All posts by this member | 2 of 35 Wed 27th Aug 2014 1:44pm Member: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:3480 Hi Philip, I have one of those and it is only 8" tall. At the moment it is full of $2 pieces.
6.30 Mon to Fri. and 12.00 noon Sats. No GR on it though just Post Office. ![]() |
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Midland Red Cherwell All posts by this member | 3 of 35 Wed 27th Aug 2014 5:55pm Moderator: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:5608 Hi Philip, and thanks for that
It certainly is a George box, as you say, but not just any George - it's George V
The GPO didn't anticipate any more King Georges, so the only used the cypher GR
After Edward VIII abdicated - boxes with his cypher are quite rare! - they used GVIR for his brother, to distinguish those boxes from his father's
PS The 'anonymous' boxes are from a period in the reign of Victoria when the cypher was omitted |
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Mike H London Ontario, Canada All posts by this member | 4 of 35 Wed 27th Aug 2014 7:58pm Member: Joined Apr 2012 Total posts:400 This mail box stands in the shadow of the Westgate, Warwick.
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Midland Red Cherwell All posts by this member | 5 of 35 Wed 27th Aug 2014 10:45pm Moderator: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:5608 This "mail box" as you call it is in fact one of the earliest (fluted) designs of Victorian pillar boxes - there are two in Warwick, the other one is at Eastgate on Castle Hill |
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Mike H London Ontario, Canada All posts by this member | 6 of 35 Thu 28th Aug 2014 12:35pm Member: Joined Apr 2012 Total posts:400 I see that you have the Eastgate box on your photo site already. I passed by that box many times between Sept 65 and June 70 on foot and never really noticed it. Thereafter, I had a motorcycle/car and one misses a great deal 'on the move'. It appears to be fairly unique in having a vertical slot. BTW, if I was to use the term 'pillar box' here, nobody would know what I was talking about. Edited by member, 28th Aug 2014 12:36 pm |
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Midland Red Cherwell All posts by this member | 7 of 35 Thu 28th Aug 2014 3:16pm Moderator: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:5608 I'm sure most Coventry folk know what a pillar box is - a mail box I'm not so sure
There are three main types of POSTBOX -
Pillar Box
Wall Box
Lamp Box |
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PhilipInCoventry Holbrooks All posts by this member Thread starter | 8 of 35 Thu 28th Aug 2014 11:01pm Moderator: Joined Apr 2010 Total posts:4237 Hi all ![]() ![]() |
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Annewiggy Tamworth All posts by this member | 9 of 35 Fri 29th Aug 2014 11:14am Member: Joined Jan 2013 Total posts:1840 We were sent round to the "Pillar box" as kids as the one on Moseley Avenue did not involve crossing any roads. We felt it was a real adventure going round the "block" afterwards, up Matterson Avenue, Lawrence Saunders and back home to Poole Road. I still call them pillar boxes. The one I use in Tamworth is a small box on a pole, what is that called ? |
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NormK bulkington All posts by this member | 10 of 35 Fri 29th Aug 2014 11:17am Member: Joined Jan 2012 Total posts:827 Postbox? Milly rules |
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Dreamtime Perth Western Australia All posts by this member | 11 of 35 Fri 29th Aug 2014 11:23am Member: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:3480 Mail Boxes in WA. Letter boxes on the front doors or on a stand at the end of the drive. You can't beat seeing all your birthday cards coming through the letter box on your front door. ![]() ![]() |
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artful lancashire All posts by this member | 12 of 35 Fri 29th Aug 2014 8:34pm Member: Joined Sep 2011 Total posts:139 On 29th Aug 2014 11:14am, Annewiggy said:
We were sent round to the "Pillar box" as kids as the one on Moseley Avenue did not involve crossing any roads. We felt it was a real adventure going round the "block" afterwards, up Matterson Avenue, Lawrence Saunders and back home to Poole Road. I still call them pillar boxes. The one I use in Tamworth is a small box on a pole, what is that called ?
By the fact it's a box mounted on a pillar I think Pillar Box is appropriate. |
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scrutiny coventry All posts by this member | 13 of 35 Sat 30th Aug 2014 8:11am Member: Joined Feb 2010 Total posts:754 According to the different references. A pillar box was a post box mounted on a pole, a round pillar box is in the shape of a pillar, hexagonal boxes are called Penfolds. In the country they are called Lampboxes and Wallboxes in walls. ![]() |
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Midland Red Cherwell All posts by this member | 14 of 35 Tue 9th Sep 2014 2:13pm Moderator: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:5608 On 30th Aug 2014 10:38am, Mike H said:
....However you look at it, a post is definitely not a pillar, and I doubt if anybody ever said 'Pop it in the Penfold. lampbox or wall box'. This is why in other countries we call it a MAIL box, a generic term covering the different permutations..
The "definitive authority on the subject, acknowledged by Royal Mail and the British Postal Museum & Archive" is The Letter Box Study Group, so I guess we should settle on calling them letter boxes, although they're not only used for letters! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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pixrobin Canley All posts by this member | 15 of 35 Wed 10th Sep 2014 3:43pm Member: Joined Mar 2014 Total posts:1103 Here's a more modern variety MR - it's situated in the retail centre of Accington
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