Now this is one you don’t see everyday.
My friend Lawrence came across it recently, and promised to
send me this picture.
He tells me that it is an “Edward VIII post-box. It's on
Framingham Road near the corner of Wood Road in Brooklands, Sale. Picture taken
on a May Bank holiday Monday but the next collection was indicated for
Wednesday.”
It is unusual in that there can’t be that many of them.
Edward VIII was the King we never had or to be more accurate
the one who was not crowned.
He was christened Edward Albert Christian George
Andrew Patrick David and succeeded his father King George V in January 1936.
But then romance and Mrs Simpson intervened and given the
opposition from elements of the ruling class he chose her and not the
crown and abdicated in December of the same year.
Meanwhile everyday life went on and post boxes were replaced
and new one sited and in the way of things this one got to see the light of day
on Wood Road sometime during 1936.
So it always pays to have a camera and to look out for the unusual and having spotted the unusual make sure it has been recorded.
After all you never know when you may be called upon to provide that all important pub quiz answer.
Picture; courtesy of Lawrence Beadle
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