Letter Boxes
Today there are over 100,000 letter boxes in use in the UK. They fall into three main types, pillar, wall and lamp boxes.
Pillar Boxes
Pillar boxes first appeared on the streets of the UK in 1852, when a trial took place in the Channel...
Wall Boxes
Wall boxes were introduced in 1857. They satisfied a need for smaller, cheaper letter boxes in rural...
Lamp Boxes
Lamp boxes were first trialled in 1896, in response to demands by residents of fashionable London...
Oral History
Listen to many different types of people who have either worked at, or used the Post Office, and...
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