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
Victorious villagers to welcome back lost postbox 2nd November 2011 | Robert Cole | Leave a comment “Mr Airton set about his cause with vigour, enlisting support from the Letter Box Study Group, Cotswolds Conservation Board, local councillors and Stroud MP Neil Carmichael. He unearthed a 2002 agreement between English Heritage and Royal Mail which…” read more… Read More
Have I Got News For You – This Weeks Guest Publication 25th November 2010 | Robert Cole | Leave a comment We worked with the production company at short notice to provide a package of material for “This Weeks Guest Publication”. Martin Clunes, Grayson Perry and Jimmy Carr, along with series regulars Paul Merton and Ian Hislop, gave us a gentle ribbing on the highly popular BBC 1 show. programme details (Series 40 – Episode 7)… Read More
A red letter box day for study group 4th April 2010 | Robert Cole | Leave a comment “Warrington is a place of interest to letter box enthusiasts because it is home to a very rare post box, located inside a phone box.” Nicknamed, ‘the vermilion giant’, the combined phone box and post box, was made…” read more… Read More
Stamps mark 200 years of letterboxes 18th August 2009 | Robert Cole | Leave a comment “There are about 114,000 letterboxes in use in Britain. The stamps issued today by Royal Mail depict four different types which, like the Wakefield original, are hung in or on walls. Pillarboxes, and other varieties attached to telegraph poles or on posts, are not shown. Unrepresented, also, are the rarest British letterboxes which date from… Read More
The post box tour of Suffolk 23rd August 2008 | Robert Cole | Leave a comment “I can’t be sure how the nippers felt. In years to come, in grown-up reminiscences about the childhood holidays, will they roll their eyes and groan? Will they rue things they could have done? The funfairs not visited, the go-karts not ridden, the sombreros not worn? I hope they will laugh about the time Dad… Read More