Post your Liverpool postboxes here. Sounds a bit trainspotterish, but I'm fascinated with them. You can guess

their age by the ubiquitous "ER" and "GR" insignias on the front of them.

My first pic is the oldest postbox in Liverpool. It used to be located on

Sheil Rd, but can now be found in the grounds of the Royal Mail building near Limey. The second one is a Victorian postbox in Wood

St.

http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/letterbox.jpg

http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/letterbox2.jpg

Don't know if it's still there but

there was a Victorian one in Arundel Avenue, near Sydenham Avenue.

Cheers Phil. I'll

have a look when I'm back up there next week.

The country's only octagonal post box was at the corner of Mill St and Northumberland St. It was there until the 1970s and taken away as it

was so unique. I saw a photo of it on the net somewhere.

I've got one and I

will post it later.

Childwall Abbey

Pub

http://static.flickr.com/113/257230843_0325aefbf0.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/257230843/)

LowerBreck rd, post

box.

There's an old one on the Liverpool University campus, opposite the Sydney Jones library in Chatham Street. I've heard it's the oldest in Liverpool.

The country's only octagonal post box was at the corner of Mill St and Northumberland St. It was there until the 1970s and taken away as it was so unique. I saw a photo of it on the net somewhere.

First, good work, Dave, once more!

There are other multisided Victorian postboxes around elsewhere. Do they have eight sides as well?

http://www.headington.org.uk/oxon/streets/post_boxes/victorian/index.htm - in Oxford

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dere-street/296802517/in/pool-postletterandmailboxes/ - in Sheffield.

Chris

I've heard 3 or 4 different places where the oldest postbox is meant to be.
Scouserdave says Sheil rd. Ayjaykay says Chatham.

I was always told that the oldest was originally sited in Everton, can't remember which rd - somewhere like Everton Brow or Netherfield.
Anyway, somewhere near by.

Can anyone clear this up ?

Will the real oldest postbox please stand up !! :Colorz_Grey_PDT_16:

It depends on whether you mean the oldest one still in its original position or not.
Besides, they don't have dates on them so it would be hard to tell.

I'm convinced (but not looked in ages) that there is still one in the wall on Woolton Road, Childwall. This was the boundary wall to Childwall C of E School (my primary school) and it was positioned in the wall. Now it's someone's back garden so it wouldn't take much to get a blow torch and cut the back open :)

I've seen an old one at the Albert Dock, near the wacker qwackers.

The text on scouserdave's pillar-box is:

LIVERPOOL "SPECIAL" PILLAR BOX

THIS IS ONE OF THE ORIGINAL LIVERPOOL "SPECIAL"
POSTING BOXES - CAST IN 1863 BY MESSRS
COCHRANE AND COMPANY OF DUDLEY. THE UNIQUE
DESIGN WAS AUTHORISED AND INTRODUCED TO
MEET HEAVY AND SPECIAL POSTING REQUIREMENTS
FOUND IN CERTAIN PARTS OF THIS CITY. IT DIFFERED
FROM THE STANDARD BY THE INCLUSION OF THE
LETTERING "POST OFFICE" BELOW THE POSTING
APERTURE AND A LARGE CROWN ON THE ROOF.
A MAIL BAG COULD ALSO BE HUNG INSIDE.

AFTER 115 YEARS OF CONTINUOUS USE IN THE
EVERTON DISTRICT, THIS POSTING BOX WAS WITHDRAWN
FROM SERVICE IN SEPTEMBER 1978 AND PRESERVED AS A
FINE EXAMPLE OF EARLY VICTORIAN STREET FURNITURE.

That was the Everton one I mentioned then.

The one I mentioned in Chatham Street was listed in 1975 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listed_buildings_in_Liverpool), along with the one in Sheil Road.

Found the Albert Dock one on the 'net
http://travel.webshots.com/photo/1212170859036428315HNXREm

Also from the same person, a strange Birkenhead one with Vertical letter slot
http://travel.webshots.com/photo/1212169990036428315PuOTHt

Found the Albert Dock one on the 'net
http://travel.webshots.com/photo/1212170859036428315HNXREm

Also from the same person, a strange Birkenhead one with Vertical letter slot
http://travel.webshots.com/photo/1212169990036428315PuOTHt


The Birkenhead one looks oddly obscene!!! :eek:

love the design on the birkenhead one!

don't think I like it :neutral: .. it doesn't look right.

Hi Dave

A link sent to me by my friend Lyn, orginally from Portsmouth, who now, like me, lives in the United States--

History of British Letter Boxes (http://www.wicks.org/pulp/part1.html)

Thanks, Lyn!

Chris

There's a photo of the Chatham Street / Abercromby Square one here:

http://www.dmeredith.com/pages/lpbx.htm

It's a Victorian one.

Here's the info plate from the Albert Dock (bit blurry though)
It doesn't say where this crown-topped box was previously sited.
This pillar-box is still in use.

Here's the info plate from the Albert Dock (bit blurry though)
It doesn't say where this crown-topped box was previously sited.
This pillar-box is still in use.

They made a bit of a mess of the paint job didn't they? :shock:

A rare 'VR' postal-box, Sandhills Lane.

Love that Birkenhead one. Where is it? Ive never seen a post box designed like a doric column before. Wondering if it is in Oxton as there are quite a few neo greek houses around there.

There's a photo of the Chatham Street / Abercromby Square one here:

http://www.dmeredith.com/pages/lpbx.htm

It's a Victorian one.

Sorry to see the graffiti on this one! Bloody kids! Nice photos everyone! :celb (23):

Chris

This QE2 wall post-box is at the Southern end of Allerton rd. Not in use, but probably left in place as it is built into the sandstone wall. It's the only black QE2 post-box I've found (it's obviously been painted red underneath).
Now for the ultimate challenge...who knows the location of any BLUE postal-boxes. I've only ever seen 2. One was around West Derby (unsure of exact location in the mid-90's). The other was outside the old post office in Tarbock (early 1980's). At the time I thought it was blue because I was in another Council area, but a quick Google search states that they were used for Airmail for a brief period in the 1930's only.

There was a piece today on BBC TV North West about a group who photograph post-boxes (they interviewed a member from Formby) A quick Google search revealed The Letter Box Study Group. He stated that they try to log the locations of all pillar-boxes. This site has several variations that I've never seen before.
http://www.lbsg.org/

There's a part local letterbox site here (http://auntiejeans.letterboxes.fotoblog.co.uk/)

I really want to go back to Hale, but the weathers been poor for pictures and my bike has got another puncture! :mad:

Nice pic though.:PDT_Piratz_26:

Can't find the original threads on these but there's a crackin' article in todays daily post about them with some colour pics. There's a letter box/phone box combined in Helsby and a double box in Southport as well as an early one in Alder Hey hospital and a 'special' one at the Albert dock.

Telephone boxes: http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2389

Postboxes
http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2400

Thanks. Is there a search facility?

Sorry, just spotted it at the top <doh>

THEY are among the nation’s most treasured icons and a cherished feature of the British street scene.

Now the Royal Mail’s distinctive red letter boxes have emerged as the subject of one man’s passion.

Bill Owens has dedicated his retirement to taking hundreds of photographs of pillar, wall and post-mounted letter boxes in an effort to help preserve them for future generations. more (http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/liverpooldailypost/news/regionalnews/tm_headline=a-catalogue-of-british-history%2D-all-boxed-up%26method=full%26objectid=18472868%26siteid=5006 1-name_page.html)....

this fella needs to post'em here :PDT_Piratz_26:

Find his email then Kev and ask him to join.:Colorz_Grey_PDT_16:

There's an Edward VIII pillar box somewhere in Liverpool - since he was only King for a few months in 1936, these must be pretty rare. Anyone know where it is?

Allerton Road (Allerton Police Station would be off to the right hand side).

Queen Victoria black wall-box, Laurel Road (junction with Edge Lane). Not in use.

Not in Liverpool but an unusual postbox in Wales.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y249/rubinda/P8130030.jpg

Very unusual!:shock::unibrow:

Allerton Road (Allerton Police Station would be off to the right hand side).

There's one at the corner of Canning St / Bedford St South too. So not actually the one I was thinking of - maybe they're not so rare after all.

I took the odd pillar box photo over the years but don,t know where they all are at the mo. I know there is a victorian hole in the wall one on the corner of Kremlin Drive, Queens Drive end:)

The country's only octagonal post box was at the corner of Mill St and Northumberland St. It was there until the 1970s and taken away as it

was so unique. I saw a photo of it on the net somewhere.

WOW!!! i really missed this thread. My grandparents lived on Norththumby and i remember that post box.

Im a postie by the way. Remember the Bluebell pub in Huyton? one of the oldest postboxes is set into a wall near there. Huyton has 3 very old boxes.

I took the odd pillar box photo over the years but don,t know where they all are at the mo. I know there is a victorian hole in the wall one on the corner of Kremlin Drive, Queens Drive end:)

Chippie i live 5 mins from there. i know the one you mean. a photo will appear soon :PDT11

Thanks Tony, you,re quicker doing it that way than me finding it in this b***** mess of a room.:hug:

I will go round there over the weekend, im off work then :)

Have a look at page 1 of this thread, post no.7 - there is a hole in the wall one on Lower Breck rd.

Chippie you know that one don't you ? :)

Goodness me I do know that one. Brings back some memories does Lower Breck Rd. used to pick the caterpillars off the trees down there when I was in short kecks.

Some delightful souls decided Liverpool could do without this rare pillar box in Wavertree. One firework banger inside shattered it a few years ago.

Has anyone noticed that there are a few pillar boxes around that are missing their Royal initials. I wonder what the reason is for them being 'blank'.
I've got a pic of the Kremlin Drive wall-box on another PC (I'll post it later). I noticed it a couple of months ago when a nearby Petrol Station? had just been demolished (Stoneycroft Crescent)

http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee262/south_liverpool/Kremlin_Drive_Post_Box.jpg

Now you come to mention it - yes, I've noticed lots of the pillar boxes are now blank.

What's worse, picturing poor Gnomie walking the streets or imagining Chippie 18 months ago in short kecks.

yeah, but have you noticed the latest fashion for postmen wearing shorts? :)

It started just a few years back - and now they are wearing them all the time :)

I saw a postie last week still wearing them even though the summer has ended.


they'll have to give in now tho' the cold mornings are here :unibrow:


Gnomie, are you a fan of this attire ? :) :)

Yes they look like boy scouts or village posties some of em.
Their shorts are so short you can almost see their male bags.

ha,ha.


I saw a guy the other day (not a postman) - he was wearing those knee length pants - grey ones - with black socks pulled half way up the calf and trainers !! Gawd blimey ! what did he look like !!

Given that there is a postal strike at the mo isn't it time to privatise the Post Office

my postie doesn,t wear shorts, her name is Julie and she,s great.

I often think to myself, what a funny name for a postman!!!

Hey Ged, just you wait till I post my photo of me in short kecks!!!

Thanks Marky for that photo of Kremlin Drive postbox, Tony is going mad now as he wanted to post that one.

pistols at dawn!

Pistols at noon d'ya mean, you never see a postie before that now :unibrow:

If you're on about those short shorts again though, it could be piss-tools at dawn.

Our Julie comes well before noon Gedrick, (I can,t help feeding you these one liners mate) and. you,ll be sorry when you see my wee legs :handclap:

What! She comes well before noon?

Is there something you wanna tell us here Chipolata mate?

No Gedrick, there,s nothing funny going on at all. But it is good to get the days post before lunch, not that I have any mind you, with a gut like mine you have to cut something out. :PDT_Aliboronz_24:

Hey Ged, just you wait till I post my photo of me in short kecks!!!

Thanks Marky for that photo of Kremlin Drive postbox, Tony is going mad now as he wanted to post that one.

pistols at dawn!


Glad you got the pic chippie, well done Marky :PDT11

I wear shorts for work. my missus says i have woo woo legs :unibrow:

I've said this on another thread, but the "Special" postbox at the Albert Dock was originally at Shiel Road.
It was also at the Garden Festival in 1984.

I vote for Chippie in shorts right where the Queen's head is.
(I mean on a postage stamp!).

Dont know if this has been done but looksie here, right hand side of pic >>>>

http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb85/doorwaydave/IMG_0006-2.jpg

Thanks to doorway-dave for the pic.

Phredd

This one was at the old Liverpool life museum

http://h1.ripway.com/andalucia/post.jpg

Here's another unusual Welsh postbox:

... and another one - -there are lots of quaint little post boxes in Wales. :)

LowerBreck rd, post

box.

Here's another shot of that one, as well as a VR box in Llechwedd, near Blaenau Ffestinogg.

A rare hexagonal box, Abercromby Square.
http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee262/south_liverpool/Abercromby_Hexagonal_postbox.jpg

Allerton Road (Allerton Police Station would be off to the right hand side).

THANK YOU!
I've been looking for an Edward VIII box to complete my set. Thought there must be one in Liverpool. I think there's less than 20 countrywide.

I always regret not getting a photo of the standard box that was in Wavertree. Vandals dropped fireworks in it...:mad:
EDIT...just got further through thread and someone put a photo of it...excellent

Dickens Street,Liverpool 8.

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a2/Carrie132/dickensstpostbox.jpg

there's a special box like the Albert Dock one at Copperas Hill .
This one spent 115 years in Everton before being preserved
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e28/quincyg/date%20stones/mosiacs%20shops%20signage/post%20and%20phone%20boxes/Picture1601.jpg

can't remember where in town I took this one of a double George V
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e28/quincyg/date%20stones/mosiacs%20shops%20signage/post%20and%20phone%20boxes/Picture1299.jpg

plain Victorian one by Bankhall Station
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e28/quincyg/date%20stones/mosiacs%20shops%20signage/post%20and%20phone%20boxes/Picture1240.jpg

http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee283/exactavarex/P1020669.jpg
Here`s a close up of Coppera`s Hill one