Old letter boxes
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Bibliographic Information
Old letter boxes
（Shire album）（The Shire book）
Shire Publications, 2000
2nd ed., with new text and col. ill
Available at 1 libraries
Note
"First published as a Shire Album in 1987"--T.p. verso
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Pillar boxes were first introduced into Britain at the instigation of Anthony Trollope, the novelist, who was also a Post Office surveyor. Although many letter boxes are ordinary, some types, such as those that survive from the 1850s, are understandably rare. This book describes and illustrates some of those from the Channel Islands, where pillar boxes were first introduced in 1852, to Scotland, which has had its own design of letter boxes since the Queen's accession in 1952, and from the heart of London to the depths of rural Wales and the Irish Republic.
Table of Contents
- Victorian pillar boxes
- Twentieth-century pillar boxes
- Wall letter boxes
- Ludlow letter boxes
- Miscellaneous letter boxes
- further information
- places to visit
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