Pillar boxes through the years
Four examples of pillar boxes (or post boxes): a fluted example with a dome and crown, erected in Birmingham in 1856, another on featuring elaborate ornamentation from 1856 incorporating national emblems, another from the same year of a similar design at the General Post Office records office and finally, the first of Queen Elizabeth II's new reign, erected in Whitehall and featuring the new royal cypher
Picture No
13722255
Media ID
46783005
Size
7916px x 3823px
(4.4MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Photographs in The Illustrated London News', 6 December 1952, page 949
Date
1952





























