Postboxes

Very unusual!:shock::unibrow:

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Originally Posted by marky

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

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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:)

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Originally Posted by Waterways

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.

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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.

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Originally Posted by chippie

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:)

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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/e...e_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:

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Originally Posted by chippie

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!

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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/b...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. :)

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Originally Posted by lindylou

LowerBreck rd, post

box.

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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/e...al_postbox.jpg

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Originally Posted by marky

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

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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/...sstpostbox.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/e2...icture1601.jpg

can't remember where in town I took this one of a double George V
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e2...icture1299.jpg

plain Victorian one by Bankhall Station
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e2...icture1240.jpg

[IMG]http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/e...x/P1020669.jpg[/IMG]
Here`s a close up of Coppera`s Hill one

Here's an unusual post box/phone box.

Portmeirion, Wales.

post box at Port Sunlight

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Someone was asking about blue Victorians, here's one I found the other week. It is on the former Primitive Methodist Chapel in Old Park, Telford. Note the next collection!

This is a really great thread, but a question are there any yellow topped Post boxes that have a Sunday collection , or have all Sunday collections stopped?

Here's a cracking George V embellished wall box at the rear entrance to India Buildings in Brunswick Street.

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Originally Posted by christy

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.

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It is indeed in Oxton; Balls Rd., outside the Williamson Art Gallery.

Attached is one from Ashville Rd., which runs through Birkenhead Park. It's a hexagonal Penfold, Victorian.