Anglia News In Brief – A shed load of postboxes Letter Box Study Group member Steve Knight talks to correspondent Natalie Gray in his garden in Essex: “This is Steve Knight, the proud owner of 115 post boxes … 14 years ago he bought his first post box and just kept on going… Does a man really need 115 old post boxes?” watch the broadcast… Read More
Garden shed is a first class post office “We have open days throughout the year where children can dress up in the uniforms, try out the ink stamps and experience what it was like to be a telegram messenger. In the 1950s telegram messengers would start as young as 14 years old so it’s a real eye-opener for the younger kids.” Steve’s quirky… Read More
My shed is a 1950s post office: collector transforms garden… “Steve said: ‘I’ve always been a keen stamp collector since I was a young boy, but I started collecting letter boxes around 14 years ago and it just grew from there – I now have 115 of them dotted around the garden. ‘After years of collecting – and thanks to donations from…” read more… Read More
Private use of antique Royal Mail pillar boxes or post boxes “Helen Crabtree at the Letter Box Study Group told SalvoNEWS that the Royal Mail used to sell post and pillar boxes under terms which dictated how and where they would be used. The sale contract stated that the postbox must not…” read more… Read More