Penfold Post Box

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English: Penfold-type Victorian post box on King's Parade, Cambridge, by the main gate of King's College. This was the standard design for UK Post Office boxes between 1866–1879.
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New post box designs were ordered in 1887 for the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria. For the first time there was a lamp-post mounted letter box for use in London squares, but which soon established themselves in rural areas, where the greater expense of a Ludlow wall box was not justified. The hexagonal Penfold Post Box made from 1866 to 1879. England, Berkshire, Eton High Street, tourist posting Royal postcard in historic1856 Victorian post pillar box. Dh POSTBOX JERSEY Old Victorian Red caste iron Penfold hexagonal pillar box post letter. England, Berkshire, Eton High. Pillar Box in Barness Cross, Dorset. 2 – Barness Cross, Dorset (Installed 1853) Wiki Info: Pillar boxes were provided in territories administered by the United Kingdom, such as Mandatory Palestine, and territories with agency postal services provided by the British Post Office such as Bahrain, Dubai, Kuwait and Morocco.

Penfold Pillar Box designed by John Worsnham Penfold were manufactured between 1866 and 1879 by Cochrane Grove & Co., Dudley ID: G5H7RG (RM) An original bright red Victorian Royal Mail Penfold pillar box (post box) in Tetbury, Gloucestershire, UK.

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