Post boxes
- This topic has 53 replies, 26 voices, and was last updated 14 years, 3 months ago by
.
- Posts
Came across this VR pillar box on the platform of Portarlington’s charming Victorian train station earlier today.
for anyone who’s interested in that kind of thing.Tidying up the memory card I stumbled across these, taken a couple of weeks ago in Kent Station in Cork.
1857, apparently.
A little bit more (slightly embellished) background on the one above in Kent Station, Cork:
http://peoplesrepublicofcork.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=861
Shame the Kent Station box is surrounded by so much clutter.
@corcaighboy wrote:
Saw this post box (admittedly not a post office one) in the SAS Radisson Hotel in Stillorgan recently. Quite unusual as it made out of wood. Have no idea if it is a replica although I imagine not. Have no more details on it alas…
Up until a few days ago, there existed an old wooden post box in the Student Centre at University College Cork. It has recently been removed and replaced with a hideous plastic replacement. Unfortunately I have no image of the boxes in question, but if anybody else does, please post.
Thomas Jessop Davis (1864-1946) began his industrial career with the family-owned Saint John’s Mills (established 1858), a corn mill water mill on the outskirts of Enniscorthy which ceased operation in 1989: the derelict mill (1885) – cleared of the grain silos introduced in 1935 and 1954 – was recently the subject of a planning application for development as an apartment complex-hotel scheme.
A trained engineer, Davis opened an ironworks in the grounds of the corn mill in 1890 but moved the business to the purpose-built Saint John’s Ironworks and Foundry on the opposite side of the Urrin River in 1908. The ironworks closed down in 1962 although some of the buildings survive, again derelict.
As well as “wall box” and the rarer “lamp box” post boxes, for which the ironworks apparently superseded W.T. Allen and Co. London (fl. 1881-1955) and A. [Andrew] Handyside and Co. (fl. 1853-1933) respectively as primary suppliers, the Jessop Davis stamp is seen on manhole covers and waterpumps throughout County Wexford and the neighbouring counties.
According to the Colne Valley Postal Museum Trust in Essex http://www.cvphm.org/ForeignBoxes.html: “The Folk Museum at Daingean County Offaly has a National standard and a Penfold – both in red. These are the only red boxes left south of the 1922 border. Collins Barracks outstation of National Museum of Ireland has the only surviving Ashworth of Burnley PB1, whilst the only Economy London Ornate is to be found inside Kent Railway Station in Cork.”
I have noticed in recent days that several of the wall boxes in the Belfield area seem to be now out of service, with a piece of wood blocking the letter slot. Looks like some have been out of use for some time. Is there a plan to reduce / remove wall boxes?
There are no prominent signs applied to indicate whether this is a permanent or a temporary measure, indeed there is just a scrawl on one box. Neither is there any indication of where close by in service boxes still are, for customers.
one of those hexagonal boxs was out in bray near the garda station until about a month ago when a council van backed into it smashing it to bits
Re: post boxes, is anybody familiar with the old post office in Donabate, Co. Dublin. This is now a barber shop but there are still two post boxes (wall type) there less than 10 feet apart. I was wondering is there any story behind the boxes, what type the boxes are etc.
The barber shop was featured in a programme about the recession on TV3 which is when I spotted the boxes, I think at least one of them is a VR. I googled the barbers and found this
http://www.daft.ie/searchcommercial.daft?id=45317@trace wrote:
According to the Colne Valley Postal Museum Trust in Essex http://www.cvphm.org/ForeignBoxes.html: “The Folk Museum at Daingean County Offaly has a National standard and a Penfold – both in red. These are the only red boxes left south of the 1922 border.
There’s a postbox in red in the Bunratty Folk Park, Co. Clare.
@Pilear wrote:
one of those hexagonal boxs was out in bray near the garda station until about a month ago when a council van backed into it smashing it to bits
What a shame. 🙁 I don’t suppose you know if they kept it or have plans to reinstate it? (Long shot, I know.) Maybe if I offer them a few quid…
Still, I can cross it off my list all the same. I think that means there’s only one left to find.
Got this the other day- Everything you ever wanted to know…etc. I guess that’s one less book I have to write. 😉
I’m quite certain that box has also been photographed by me – I’ve got it on a 35mm slide. It is located on the southern shore of the Beara Peninsula and is on a cut-down telegraph pole sticking up through a hedge.
Annoyingly my scanner does not have carriers for flim or transparencies.
KB2Well, An post continue to be a bunch of c**ts.
This beauty on Dartmouth Square, was mentioned in the Dublin City Council Conservation Area Plan: “An attractive Victorian cast iron pillar post box is located on the south side of the square and should be protected“.
And in its place given us this:
Seriously, what is wrong with this country? Does any give a f**k?
I understand they are closing post boxes for costs, but could this box not be preserved as a drop box instead of that ugly yoke?
- You must be logged in to reply to this topic.
