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
Boy inundated with personal post 27th January 2007 | Robert Cole | Leave a comment “He has even had a letter from the 800-member Letter Box Study Group. Arthur Reader, from the group, lives on the Isle of Wight. He said: “We have meetings twice a year, with displays of old postboxes. I have a large private collection of 178 post boxes at my museum. “The young lad would be… Read More
By Royal Appointment 6th October 2006 | Robert Cole | Leave a comment “There is some doubt as to whether Barnes Cross was the box’s original site. Wayne Cox, writing in the Letter Box Study Group Newsletter (November 2004), suggests that it may have been one of the last boxes of its type to be erected at nearby Sherborne before being moved to its present position at… Read More
It’s a red-letter day for the ‘antique’ post-box 28th March 2004 | Robert Cole | Leave a comment The Independent “The society’s secretary, Avice Harms, says: “Collecting letter-boxes is not an investment; it’s a way of saving our history and heritage. Americans love collecting them but we don’t want to see too many go out of the country.” read more… Read More