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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.
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Martin Robinson has been collecting stamps and writing about them and other aspects of postal history since 1965. He has travelled extensively recording and photographing letter boxes of all kinds, and corresponds with fellow enthusiasts.
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Shire books just seem to go from strength to strength, producing interesting titles, at a very affordable price, and this book on old letterboxes is no exception.
For under a fiver you can delight in the pictorial history of the humble, but important, letterbox, many pre QE11 which survive today and are still in use!
The text is interesting and informative(one never realises some of the problems encountered in design, and the modifications made), and the author deserves much credit for the hours he must have spent in travelling around to photograph leterboxes and finding out the details about them.
The photographs are a mixture of black and white and beautiful colour.
Not all post/letter boxes are the same!Buy this book and wallow in a little bit of street nostalgia! Yes it is a first class book!
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I admit having read Martin's work on websites like IGN and Eurogamer, this compilation of letter box photographs wasn't what I was expecting when it first arrived in shops. Don't worry if you're not usually a fan of letter boxes - Martin's writing ability and eye for an image really shine through, making it an enjoyable purchase for any reader: This is without a doubt his finest work yet.
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