Post Boxes

I think you can excuse Midland Red as he posted a letter to Coventry in the oldest "Penfold" in the country?

Last year, I posted a photo of the oldest post box in the UK This week, I came across one of the newest - a plastic-coated stainless steel lamp box, of which about 200 have so far been introduced around the country

Old postbox at the Victorian Museum, Ironbridge.

Cuckoo Lane Victorian postbox What's going on????????? It has been painted black

Must be for Blackmail

ROTFL Well done. I'm guessing that it's black because it's no longer a real box.

It was red - Alamy stock photo - but out of use for years though, I've only known is as red until I saw it today. I don't go past that way a lot so don't know when it was painted black.

After leaving school my first job was in the Post Office, but I get fed up of walking the streets. As a young postman we worked either morning shifts or afternoon shifts. On afternoon shifts I collected from that particular box as well as one in Little Park Street and the one at the main GPO in Hertford Street. That would have been 1959/60.

The Rolling Stones might know when it was Painted Black.

Maybe they thought it was a door.

Boxes are sealed and painted black when taken out of service

This is a picture I took in October 2006.

If anyone wants to see an Edward VIII box there is one at the A45/Clay Lane junction, Yardley, Birmingham.

Just returned from a few days on the Isle of Wight (glorious! ) with a "full set" of pillar boxes King Edward VIII is the rarest monarch to find on a postbox. As Edward abdicated and was never crowned, only 161 pillar boxes were made during his reign. Many of these were vandalised following Edward's abdication or had their door replaced with a door containing the cypher of a less contentious monarch. The Isle of Wight is exceptional in having two Edward VIII pillar boxes still in active service.