VR
This week's Saturday Timewatch reveals a most unexpected find in the form of a VR Queen Victoria letter box, in situ and still in use today.
It is hidden away inside the old entrance to the current Young Offenders Institute, Portland. Then known as Portland Prison, the institution was built between 1848-57. Wall box-type post boxes first came into use for fixing into existing walls in 1857. So this could have been a very early example.
VR
This week's Saturday Timewatch reveals a most unexpected find in the form of a VR Queen Victoria letter box, in situ and still in use today.
It is hidden away inside the old entrance to the current Young Offenders Institute, Portland. Then known as Portland Prison, the institution was built between 1848-57. Wall box-type post boxes first came into use for fixing into existing walls in 1857. So this could have been a very early example.