2012

SD7109 : Gold Post Box (Jason Kenny), Bolton Deansgate

taken 12 years ago, near to Bolton, England

Gold Post Box (Jason Kenny), Bolton Deansgate
Gold Post Box (Jason Kenny), Bolton Deansgate
Royal Mail celebrated every gold medal won by a British athlete during the London 2012 Olympic Games by repainting one of their iconic red pillar boxes gold for each gold medal winning Olympian. Bolton’s Jason Kenny won two gold medals, so two postboxes in the town were painted gold. This one, for the track cycling men's sprint, is outside the main post office on Deansgate (SD7109 : Bolton Main Post Office ); the other one, for the team sprint, is on Churchgate.

In total, Team GB won 29 Gold Medals for the Olympic Games and 34 Gold Medals for the Paralympic Games; for team medals, a post box was painted gold for all team members (see Link for list and more examples).

This was the first occasion in modern times that Royal Mail had changed the colour of their post boxes from the traditional red which has been the standard colour for UK boxes from 1874, with very few exceptions. The original plan was for the boxes to be returned to their traditional red colour but in November, it was announced that they would remain gold and that a plaque would be fixed to each one (LinkExternal link BBC News).

Archive LinkExternal link - archived 31st December 2017 (Royal Mail Gold Postbox Finder)

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David Dixon   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Saturday, 11 August, 2012   (more nearby)
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Saturday, 18 August, 2012
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OSGB36: geotagged! SD 7144 0926 [10m precision]
WGS84: 53:34.7490N 2:25.9694W
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OSGB36: geotagged! SD 7146 0926
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