Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life…
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Windsor 2022
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
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
Filed under Art, Holidays, Windsor 2022
4 Comments CherryPie on Jul 2nd 2022
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Winchester 2019
On our Easter break we stayed in the Wykeham Arms and our allocated room was the ‘Post Box’.
The ‘Post Box’ room is situated above the the old victorian post box which gives the room its name:
Your room ‘The Post Box’ is named after the 1854 Victorian wall letter box over which it sits. As one [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on May 21st 2019
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Winchester 2014
Hidden away near to the medieval Kingsgate in Winchester a Victorian post box is mounted in a window. The post box complete with its original enameled sign is still used for regular collections of mail today.
NOTICE. LETTERS WHICH CONTAIN COIN IF POSTED AS ORDINARY LETTERS WILL BE CHARGED ON DELIVERY WITH A SPECIAL REGISTRATION FEE [...]
20 Comments CherryPie on Feb 11th 2015
Filed under Anecdotes
On the way to work I had to do a small detour to my local parcel office to pick up a packet that the postman tried to deliver yesterday. I knew it was a bad idea due to the time of year, but as they only keep packages for a short while before returning to [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Dec 10th 2009
