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
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