2011

J1554 : Victorian lamp box near Dromore

taken 12 years ago, 3 km from Donaghcloney, Co Down, Northern Ireland

Victorian lamp box near Dromore
Victorian lamp box near Dromore
A “Mk II” Victorian lamp box, on the Dromore – Lurgan road, almost opposite the Blackskull Road J1554 : The Blackskull Road near Dromore. According to the “Shire guide to Old Letter Boxes” over a hundred have survived. This is the only one I have seen in Northern Ireland. The “Mk 1” version is stated as having less than half a dozen survivors. This has the inscription “LETTERS ONLY”. The earlier version has simply “LETTERS”.
Postboxes, rest of Northern Ireland

A series of photographs showing some of the postboxes, in the rest of Northern Ireland, within postcodes BT16-94. Link shows the postboxes within Belfast.

Victorian Postboxes

In the British Isles the first pillar post boxes were erected in Jersey in 1852. 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 Britain 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.


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Geographical Context: Business, Retail, Services other tags: Dromore (Co Down) Postbox Victorian Postbox Click a tag, to view other nearby images.
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Blackskull Road [4] · Lurgan [2] ·
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J1554, 8 images   (more nearby 🔍)
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Albert Bridge   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Wednesday, 5 October, 2011   (more nearby)
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Wednesday, 5 October, 2011
Subject Location
Irish: geotagged! J 159 541 [100m precision]
WGS84: 54:25.3349N 6:12.8644W
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Irish: geotagged! J 159 540
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