2012

SJ8498 : Gold Postbox, Piccadilly

taken 11 years ago, near to Manchester, England

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Gold Postbox, Piccadilly
Gold Postbox, Piccadilly
Royal Mail celebrated every gold medal won by a British athlete during the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games by repainting one of their iconic red pillar boxes gold for each gold medal winning Olympian or Paralympian. This one is the latest (as of October 2012) to be given the metallic coating and is slightly different from most. This box, at the corner of Oldham Street and Piccadilly opposite Piccadilly Gardens, has been painted gold to honour a team rather than an individual success. It recognises the astonishing contribution made by GB Cycling, who are based at the city’s Velodrome, about a mile and a half to the north east of here.

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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SJ8498, 3904 images   (more nearby 🔍)
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David Dixon   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Sunday, 28 October, 2012   (more nearby)
Submitted
Monday, 29 October, 2012
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SJ 8438 9832 [10m precision]
WGS84: 53:28.8820N 2:14.2103W
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OSGB36: geotagged! SJ 8440 9833
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