Do you have a digital image of a particularly interesting letter box? Why not upload your image here and tell us more about it. Currently the BPMA are interested in images of the Victorian Penfold pillar box or the even more rare blue airmail boxes. If you have images you wish to share please use this site to share them with us. Any box is of interest to us however so do please tell us about that which interests or intrigues you.
Is there a letter box near you that you would like to know more about? Maybe someone else out there can help you with your query.
This part of the BPMA website is a Wiki. This means that users can create their own content and add to/edit other people’s pages.
1. Use the 'Create new page' button on the right to create your own page
2. Give the page a title that explains where the letter box is e.g. 'Mount Pleasant Post Office Letter Box in Clerkenwell'
3. Use the Wiki help page to help with editing, formatting, inserting images, creating links etc
4. When you have finished, make a note of the web address of your page and don't forget to link to it from this page so that others can see it.
Letter boxes page links:
This link will show you the
unique surviving Edward VIII Ludlow post box at Bawdsey in
Parkin Raine, a local historian who lives in Barnard Castle, supplied the black and white photo of the GR VI lamp box entitled 'Baldersdale, Beyond Freewill'. (A recent colour photo of Box No. 182, Briscoe, can been seen by clicking on the royalmailteesdale link.)
This photo shows a Queen Victoria Type C Pillar Box on Rosebery Avenue, London during the snow on 2nd February 2009.
The back of the box can be seen in sunnier weather on Google Street View.
Photos on External Sites
There are some interesting (Creative Commons licensed) photos of pillar boxes on Flickr and the BPMA have uploaded several photos of boxes in the museum collection.
The Letter Boxes of Teesdale / Barnard Castle can be viewed on:-
http://pic4.piczo.com/royalmailteesdale/?g=25221200&cr=4&linkvar=000044
www.royalmailteesdale.piczo.com
The website of The Colne Valley Postal History Museum illustrates some eighty British postboxes including Ludlow, pillar, lamp & wall boxes. http://www.cvphm.orgThere are also good pages on Wikipedia on:
Pillar Boxes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillar_box
Wall Boxes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_box
Lamp Boxes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamp_box
Ludlow Boxes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_wall_box
