Author: Robert Cole

Founded in 1976, the LBSG has identified around 800 different types of postbox. There are more than 400 different varieties of pillar box; around 160 types of wall box, 66 Ludlow boxes and almost 80 versions of the lamp box. New boxes are still appearing while there are still many older boxes waiting to be discovered and rediscovered. The Letter Box Study Group is the acknowledged authority on the history and development of the British roadside letter box.

The post box tour of Suffolk

“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

“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

“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

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