Bensham Manor sketches - 3
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This is a lamp box - a letter box attached to lamp post to save the space, money and effort to put in a full-size pillar box. You can tell it is Victorian because of the elegant 'VR' Royal Cypher for Victoria Regina (Queen).
This is a GPO (General Post Office) moped from the 1960s. Motorcycles were some of the first motorised vehicles bought by the Post Office, before World War 1.
This is a drawing of a very ornate Victorian pillar box. This comes from a time when pillar boxes were new in Britain, and they had not yet settled on one design. This one has the aperture (hole) for letters in a vertical position - but today, every Royal Mail letter box has a horizontal aperture.
