This box is perhaps one of the most popular type of pillar box ever introduced. The only box named after its designer, John Penfold, it was first erected in 1866. Hexagonal in shape with the top decorated by acanthus leaves and balls, the Penfold continued to be manufactured for thirteen years but with fifteen modifications to the design. Surviving examples of this particular box (an example of the larger size of the second modification) are very rare. The most survivors are in London, including Hampstead, and Cheltenham, where there are eight still standing, all of which are listed. Other examples can be found in Buxton (listed), Cambridge, Dorchester (listed), Ilkley, Rochester, Shrewsbury, and the village of Budby, Nottinghamshire.
2000s 50th anniversary of the Royal Shakespeare Company (2011)
1900s ‘Please use the correct district number’ by Peter William Edwards (c.1960)
1900s Elizabeth Dickson
1900s Postal Engineers in the theatres of war
1900s ‘Post Office Lines of Communication’ by Jan Le Witt and George Him (c.1940)
1900s Inside leg