Liverpool celebrates its Special letter box birthday 17th January 2013 | Robert Cole | 1 Comment Liverpool’s very own letter box celebrates its 150th birthday in January 2013. As distinctive as it is unique, the only remaining still-working ‘Liverpool Special’ letter box stands in the city’s Albert Dock. Click here for the full article.… Read More
Heritage in postboxes 15th December 2012 | Robert Cole | Leave a comment “Though most of his correspondences with family, friends and acquaintances are now via electronic mail (e-mail) and short messaging system (SMS), his fondness for ‘snail-mail’ and old post boxes saw him joining a club called, The Letter Box Study Group based in Birmingham, UK. This group has a unique hobby of listing and photographing letter… Read More
Post boxes in focus 5th June 2012 | Robert Cole | Leave a comment “‘It’s a great way to see the country, although sometimes I get funny looks if I’m on my hands and knees looking for the box’s manufacturing number.’ ‘I’m just going to keep going and see as many new ones as I can.’ Peter is a member of the Letter Box Study Group, an organisation that… Read More
‘Boring’ man’s postbox passion 12th May 2012 | Robert Cole | Leave a comment LBSG member Peter Willis talks to James Naughtie on the BBC’s flagship radio programme Today.… Read More
Peter’s passion sees him travel from pillar to post 11th May 2012 | Robert Cole | Leave a comment “When he finds a new post box, Mr Willis photographs the base to record the manufacturer’s name and logs a grid reference on a map. He is a member of the Letter Box Study Group – an organisation dedicated to cataloguing the UK’s post boxes.”read more… Read More
Postman Pete: Not your average mail 11th May 2012 | Robert Cole | Leave a comment “AFTER years of working for the postal service, you’d think Peter Willis would never want to see a letter again. But instead, the retired postman spends his days photographing postboxes. In the past five years, the 67-year-old has snapped 2,500 iconic red boxes.”… Read More
Does this man have the oddest hobby in Britain? 10th May 2012 | Robert Cole | Leave a comment “Over the past five years Mr Willis has photographed post boxes in Inverness, Dublin and across England. His snapshots include a range of unusual locations, including several boxes at the top of hills and even one inside a theatre … He is a member of the Letter Box Study Group – an organisation dedicated to… Read More
Anglia News In Brief – A shed load of postboxes 27th April 2012 | Robert Cole | Leave a comment 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 26th April 2012 | Robert Cole | Leave a comment “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… 26th April 2012 | Robert Cole | Leave a comment “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