Oldest Post Box in Birmingham?

[mw0njm.]

Eagle Kitchen Range and Grate Company

Recently came across this old ad from 1907. To manufacture this type of installation it must have been a fairly large concern. Does anyone know of any photographs of the site?

birminghamhistory.co.uk

 

[mw0njm.]

The history of letter boxes​

i never thought about how many postboses there were till now

https://www.postalmuseum.org/collections/highlights/letter-boxes/

 

[pjmburns]

Eagle Foundry, Broad Street, Birmingham. That's an amazing piece of info, thank you.

Perhaps there is a map showing the Eagle foundry? Dating 1857 - 1874 era?

from 1855 directory.

map from 1887



link to map if you want a bigger section

View map: Great Britain. Ordnance Survey, OS town plan - Birmingham and its Environs - sheet XIV.5.11 - Ordnance Survey Town Plans of England and Wales, 1840s-1890s

 

[mw0njm.]

.Here is map c 1889 showing position of Eagle Range foundry thanks MIKEJEE

 

[pjmburns]

Does anyone know where the other one of this pair is located?

Not sure about the plaque but the two pillar boxes are still there.

 

[Strawberry Hunter]

They are on each side of the arch?

 

[pjmburns]

They are on each side of the arch?

No different arches. The two arches are the East and West gates to the old Warwick town. Hence 2 red circles on the map. Opposite ends of the High Street.

 

[AnnS]

Here's one of the Warwick boxes.

 

[Strawberry Hunter]

Arh, OK. I didn't think I'd seen one on the other side tbh!!!!!!

 

[AnnS]

And here's the plaque..

 

[AnnS]

Finally a close up of the detail...

 

[mw0njm.]

AnnS​

Strawberry Hunter did post that plague pic in #8​

but another pic is ok

 

[AnnS]

Sorry i thought hers was the plaque in Birmingham, my picture is of the Warwick example.

Although it is the same i grant you..

 

[Stokkie]

Here's a Victorian wall post box outside Avoncroft Museum Bromsgrove. I imagine it was moved here from another location like most of the buildings.

 

[mw0njm.]

there are loads of them old boxes built into the walls here so i will take be camera and snap a few when i am about

 

[NOTSHARP]

Oh my goodness, that's really excellent. If you could ask around or ask at the post office, I'd love to see if they have a blog. I'm into crochet and knitting. Thank you for posting that too.

Well, I have asked the lady who knows everything that is going on in the village, , and she says that no one knows. We have a phantom knitter in our midst, it would seem.




Steve.

 

[Astoness]

I'm now wondering if there are any post box toppers in Birmingham?

My next trip to Birmingham is going to require me stopping for lunch, I'll be parking up to take so many pics of postboxes!!!!!

saw quite a few over edgbaston way last christmas and a few in the moseley area also spotted a few in different parts of the country...it seems very popular now although i doubt we will see many in the inner city

lyn

 

[KevNuneaton]

Hi all,
Apologies if this has been put up on the Forum already - a map with all locations of postboxes apparently:

Find Your Nearest Postbox

postboxes.dracos.co.uk

 

[Strawberry Hunter]

Another Edward VII post box today in Stirchley, Birmingham.

 

[Strawberry Hunter]

First King Charles III post box on Isle of Man.

Quite saddened to see the vinyl cypher, apparently it was to include the colours.

 

[Astoness]

First King Charles III post box on Isle of Man.

Quite saddened to see the vinyl cypher, apparently it was to include the colours.

thanks kat....i wonder if birmingham will have any

lyn

 

[mikejee]

First King Charles III post box on Isle of Man.

Quite saddened to see the vinyl cypher, apparently it was to include the colours.

Cheap and nasty tat, unlike the old boxes.

 

[pjmburns]

Not sure if it makes a difference but... that box is an Isle of Man Post Office box.
Will Royal Mail be similar?

 

[Astoness]

UK Post Boxes

It is not just our iconic red pillar post boxes that will change to reflect our new monarch; all official UK postboxes will change eventually, but not quite yet. According to the Royal Mail, all existing post boxes with the Queen’s EIIR cypher will remain unchanged, as will those already in production or prepared for installation. Only new post boxes commissioned after the Queen Elizabeth II’s death will bear King Charles’s royal cypher CIIIR, representing Charles III Rex.

https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/royal-mail-post-boxes/heritage-agreement-for-royal-mail-post-boxes/

 

[mw0njm.]

God save the King

 

[pjmburns]

may not be the oldest but it is rare to see one

Edward VIII postbox, Digbeth, Birmingham © P L Chadwick

A postbox is something that most of us take for granted and rarely give a second glance, unless we have a letter to post. But stop and look at this one closely and you will discover that this is a very rare one which dates from the brief reign of King Edward VIII in 1936. He became king...

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At the moment it seems to still be there

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[Strawberry Hunter]

I know where that pillar box is!!!!!!!! Hopefully I will be back around there at some point and I can get a pic.

I'm hoping to find a pillar box in Central Birmingham, but perhaps the Digbeth pillar box is as central as it gets.

 

[pjmburns]

How central? Curzon Street?

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[pjmburns]

There is one by the Law Courts but it looks to be a modern design

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[Strawberry Hunter]

Interesting, obviously that area has been redeveloped and the post box is still there. That's the kind of thing I'm looking for, hoping to find some more in similar circumstances, for example, Broad Street.