Archive for the tag 'Pillar Box'

Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Windsor 2022

Green Penfold Pillar Box

Located on Windsor High Street next to the Guild Hall is a green hexagonal Penfold post box.

This broke the standard pattern and so in 1866 the Post Office again produced a standard letter box. This time the box was designed by J W Penfold and came in three sizes. Problems were encountered with some of [...]

4 Comments CherryPie on Jul 4th 2022

Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Windsor 2022

Blue for Airmail

Near to Windsor castle, situated next to a more usual red pillar box is a blue George V pillar box. The blue pillar box displays the history of ’special’ blue pillar boxes:

On 9th September 1911, Gustav Hamel took of from Hendon Aerodrome to inaugurate the first United Kingdom aerial post and landed in Shaw Farm [...]

6 Comments CherryPie on Jul 3rd 2022