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Images => People, Portraits, Street, PJ & Cityscapes => Topic started by: Anthony on September 09, 2016, 17:20:49
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Or Wi-Fi, for that matter.
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4 generations of media in one picture.
I am sure the PO box has seen horse carriages when she was
a child.
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Who said the printed word had no future ? :D
Well seen.
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Nicely done Anthony, I'm still chuckling.
Frank, if you didn't know that's an Edward the 7th pillarbox
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4 generations of media in one picture.
I am sure the PO box has seen horse carriages when she was
a child.
And I didnt know you were so sharp ! Well seen Frank - I never would have thought that far.
Its a great image - love it
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very good seen
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Frank, if you didn't know that's an Edward the 7th pillarbox
could be a remade version of one?
yet: cast iron can last for centuries....
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Fascinating image
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The mailbox on the side tops it off ;D
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Great shot. WIFI in paperform ;)
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it is called today analoge spam
anyhow a great picture
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Nice composition.
Also, this picture suggests that wifi would be obsolete earlier than the real mail. ;)
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Thanks, all, glad you like it.
Absurdity is all around us.
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Certainly an image that speaks volumes....... and a Wi-Fi phone booth that seems to have become a fax collation centre instead. Nicely seen and recorded.
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From Wikipaedia:
In 1653, the first post boxes are believed to have been installed in and around Paris.[1] By 1829, post boxes were in use throughout France.[2] The first public post boxes in Poland were installed in Warsaw in 1842.[3]
A post box originally installed in the wall of the Wakefield Post Office is dated 1809 and believed to be the oldest example in Britain.[4]It is now on display at the new Wakefield Museum.[5]
In the British Isles, the first red pillar post boxes were erected in Jersey in 1852.[6]Roadside wall boxes first appeared in 1857 as a cheaper alternative to pillar boxes, especially in rural districts. In 1853 the first pillar box in the United Kingdom was installed at Botchergate, Carlisle. In 1856, Richard Redgrave of the Department of Science and Art designed an ornate pillar box for use in London and other large cities. In 1859 the design was improved, and this became the first National Standard pillar box. Green was adopted as the standard colour for the early Victorian post boxes. Between 1866 and 1879 the hexagonal Penfold post box became the standard design for pillar boxes and it was during this period that red was first adopted as the standard colour. The first boxes to be painted red were in London in July 1874, although it would be nearly 10 years before all the boxes had been repainted.[7] In 2012 to celebrate Olympic gold medals for Team GB, selected boxes are painted gold. One has been vandalised briefly with graffiti.[8] One has been painted in the 'wrong' town.[9]
With pictures:
http://www.postalheritage.org.uk/explore/history/letterboxes/
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Thanks, Mongo. They are actually newspapers and magazines funded by advertising and handed out free to commuters as they arrive at the tube station. I suppose the distributor was expecting rain.
Frank, thank you for this. Wakefield is my place of origin, and I did not know if its important place in postal history.
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Frank, thank you for this. Wakefield is my place of origin, and I did not know if its important place in postal history.
The deeper you dig into this world the more interesting it gets!
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Very well seen indeed. I like the touch of including a person walking towards the 4 options. He does have choices :)
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Frank, the pillar box will be an original, they get regular repainting!
Please note it sports a Kings crown!
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Thanks, golunvolo, I wish I could claim artistic credit for the inclusion of the man!
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Your picture Mr. so actually, you do :)