Must have walked or driven by this one dozens of times, before I started noticing post boxes and this is more modern than others I've photographed.
It's in Eye, a large village/small town not far away and is probably standing outside of what once was the Post Office ( before my time in this area) which is now inside a small newsagent/ general store in another road.
Thanks to my book I can tell you this is a 'K' type dating from 1980 and is very common. It was a completely new design at the time.
Learning something new everyday!
Then there is the post box that was happily used by the villagers in Bacton for years and years, in the side of the building that was the post office in the 1960's and "the little shop" when we lived in the village in the 80's and even after the shop closed the post box remained until 2020, when new people moved into the house and "people posting letters and the postman emptying the box disturbed them". So Royal Mail were obliged to stop using it and block it up and the owners painted it black.
After a wait of over a year a new post box was installed in another place in the village just before last Christmas.
There's a post box set into the wall of a house here in our little hamlet...the slot is so small though it won't take big letters or cards, so not often a lot of use!
ReplyDeleteThat would be like the one at the end of the lane where I was - only usable for letters and postcards
DeleteWhere a post box is centred can cause some troubles in the neighbourhood. We had a 'neighbourhood watchman' who wanted to move the wall post box over the road onto our wall because he didn't like crossing the road...
ReplyDeleteOh dear - poor man!
DeleteOur nearest postbox is about a mile away and bothers no-one! Surely someone posting a letter isn't going to be that noisy and the box being emptied doesn't take long. It sounds a bit like people moving to the country and complaining about church bells or cows mooing.
ReplyDeleteI think you are right BB. I was sorry to read about a recent spate of postbox thefts in East Anglia. I can understand that some people like to collect vintage "street furniture" to decorate their gardens (phone boxes, postboxes, street lamps, old railings and bollards are all popular) but to steal a "working" postbox is very mean.
DeleteThe travellers steal them for the scrap metal Angela along with manhole covers so watch where you step.
DeleteThat's when they're not busy stealing the lead off the church roofs. So keep your eye on your church too.
DeleteThe one in the road where we lived at the smallholding was stolen and never replaced - which was annoying.
DeleteWhen my wife's brother and family visited the UK from Canada a few years ago, we took them around all the usual tourist sights in London. But the one thing they really wanted was a photo of themselves in front of a red letter box. Driving them around there were regular shouts from the back: "There's one"..."There's one".
ReplyDeleteHope they got some good photos!
DeletePersonally, I think I would really love a postbox in the side of my house. How very convenient and so quirky in a good way.
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It seemed such a small thing to complain about. And a good thing Royal Mail were willing to replace it
DeleteWe have all types of post boxes dotted around the town, including some set into the side of peoples houses. To complain AFTER buying the house is ridiculous. It reminds me when we lived in Ulverston, someone bought a second-home right alongside the town clock that chimed the hour and quarters, and then had the cheek to complain that it disturbed them and get it silenced. Locals had lived with it and loved it since before the wars ... you can imagine the outcry.
ReplyDeleteI love the British post boxes. They're wonderful!
ReplyDeleteBritish post boxes are unique to me and seem to have a great history. Personally, I'd love having a post box near or attached to my home. In my rural town, a couple bought a farmhouse across the street from the fire station and they complained bitterly about the horn blast (2 short blasts) daily at noon. They said 5 PM blasts would be acceptable. The town accommodated this. I (with others) said they could soundproof their home or consider moving because clearly, they bought the wrong house.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoy your posts about these boxes. They are all so different from our post boxes.
ReplyDeleteThere is a surprising amount of history in post boxes. There are a few gold ones in Leeds from the 2012 Olympics and I often edge past a George V one queuing in traffic on my route home.
ReplyDeleteI love them!
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