As your resident post box geeks… Why there won’t be Gold Post Boxes in the UK for the Olympic 2016 gold medal winners… Quite simply because it’s not London 2012!! Statement from The Royal Mail: “London 2012 was a unique occasion for the UK. We hosted the Games and our athletes performed extraordinarily well. Because…
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EVIII Post Box, Welshpool
This Edward 8th is a lovely bright and shiny post box!
Road Trip September 2015
Once again our holiday in the UK has been designed around our love of Post Boxes! I know some of you think we’re mad but over the last four years we’ve seen much more of the country we live in than we would have done without the Post Box hobby! This trip was in a…
How Do You Pick Your Holiday Destination?
When speaking with friends a lot decide their next holiday location based on the sunniest and hottest place they can get to. An adult only hotel on an island in the Indian Ocean, a boozefest in a location such as Benidorm. Clubbing in Ibiza seems to entice many people or long haul in search of…
Cartmel Village Store
The home of the famous Cartmel Sticky Toffee Pudding is in the centre of this village on the edge of the Lake District close to Grange Over Sands. A wonderful little shop that has a cafe and has a George V (GR) wall box for post on the front. A huge choice of foodie delights…
Birthday Post
You’re on holiday near Glasgow and it’s your birthday, what would you want to do for the day? Today it was Mr C’s birthday and we’ve been in search of the nineteen Edward 8th (EVIII) post boxes around the city. We were amazed at how agriculture borders every corner of the city and how many…
Year Of The Stamp
From June 2015 FIFTY post boxes around the UK are to be given a new feature to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Royal Mail Special Stamps programme. Is there one near you? http://www.royalmailgroup.com/stamps-feature-50-postboxes-across-uk-mark-50th-anniversary-royal-mail-special-stamps-programme On Friday evening we visited the two gold post boxes in Leeds that were painted gold following Nicola Adam’s gold medal at the 2012 London…
Post Box Trip 2014
How do you decide where to go on holiday in the UK? There are so many wonderful places to visit but we’re all quick to jump on a plane and fly 100’s if not 1,000’s of miles away. Three years ago we started on a journey that has taken in many lovely places and views…
Liverpool Queen Victoria Penfold Pillar Box – Abercromby Square and Chatham Street – The final part of the tale
So as most of you know we love post boxes, our particular favourites that we travel the country to find are Edward 8th, my other love is Penfold Pillar Boxes from the Victorian era, usually around the mid 1880’s. We were very shocked in July 2013 to visit Liverpool University and find that the original…
Penfold Pillar Boxes in Cheltenham
There are still eight original Queen Victoria Penfold pillar boxes in use today in Cheltenham. There is a ninth original Cheltenham Penfold pillar box that is no longer in use which we were unable to see. This is locked away in the vaults of The Wilson, The Art Gallery and Museum of Cheltenham and although…
Liverpool Queen Victoria Penfold Pillar Box – Abercromby Square and Chatham Street – Part 2
In July 2013 we visited Liverpool in search of post boxes… EVIII boxes, an upright fluted box in Birkenhead, the two Liverpool Special boxes and an original Queen Victoria Penfold Pillar Box. Everything was ticked off on our box apart from the last one on our list, the VR Penfold. It had disappeared. We immediately…
Post Box Weekend October 2013
We were down in Windsor and Surrey for some r&r, to find a couple of post boxes we missed on our last visit, a 3 Star Michelin lunch and a tour of Windsor Castle… Our first box was an 1856 Vertical Fluted VR pillar box in Eton. SL4 23 In Windsor there are two green…
