Now you step into the world of Royal Mail pillar boxes at your peril.
To me, they are red, have a long history and are where you post a letter.
But woe betide anyone who incorrectly labels these big red boxes with the wrong name, or worst still the wrong date.
I know I have had plenty of incensed mail from "incandescent of Ipswich" to know that making any comment is fraught with the possibilities of erudite and irate comments.
Even more so when they are those double aperture versions.
We still have one in Chorlton, there is another in St Ann’s Square and I remember them from home.
And today Peter has dropped his picture of one into the ring.
It is in Ilkley and because Peter painted the Chorlton one he mused on “Ilkley Twinned with Chorlton?”
It is a nice idea but the twinning would have to be done with shedloads of places, such are the locations for these pillar boxes.
And here is the controversy because I always remember them as having one opening for UK posting and another for the World.
But I also remember them being for first and second class letters, and recently came over a reference to the apertures being for “stamped and franked mail”
All of which is the point to give up.
Replies on picture postcards, directed to the “Double aperture Pillar Box Friendly Society”.
Location Ilkley
Picture, double aperture pillar box, 2018, from the collection of Peter Topping
To me, they are red, have a long history and are where you post a letter.
But woe betide anyone who incorrectly labels these big red boxes with the wrong name, or worst still the wrong date.
I know I have had plenty of incensed mail from "incandescent of Ipswich" to know that making any comment is fraught with the possibilities of erudite and irate comments.
We still have one in Chorlton, there is another in St Ann’s Square and I remember them from home.
And today Peter has dropped his picture of one into the ring.
It is in Ilkley and because Peter painted the Chorlton one he mused on “Ilkley Twinned with Chorlton?”
It is a nice idea but the twinning would have to be done with shedloads of places, such are the locations for these pillar boxes.
And here is the controversy because I always remember them as having one opening for UK posting and another for the World.
But I also remember them being for first and second class letters, and recently came over a reference to the apertures being for “stamped and franked mail”
All of which is the point to give up.
Replies on picture postcards, directed to the “Double aperture Pillar Box Friendly Society”.
Location Ilkley
Picture, double aperture pillar box, 2018, from the collection of Peter Topping
Where is the one in Chorlton?
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