‘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
Private use of antique Royal Mail pillar boxes or post boxes 4th April 2012 | Robert Cole | Leave a comment “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
Red-letter day as enthusiasts think inside the box 26th March 2012 | Robert Cole | Leave a comment “The Letter Box Study Group, which was founded in 1976 and is working to record all 116,000 letterboxes in the country, held its tri-annual conference in the spa town over the weekend..” read more… Read More
Royal Mail needs to get its paintbrushes out 17th February 2012 | Robert Cole | Leave a comment “SIR – Angie Bell (Letters, February 14) is right. Tatty post boxes are a disgrace. Royal Mail and English Heritage published a joint policy statement in 2002 in which Royal Mail undertook…” read more… Read More