On a windy day, the local letter box appears even more stationary within its foliage hideaway, as it waits for the once a day collection. Early postal boxes were painted green but being too unobstrusive, the livery colour was changed to the classic pillar box red that is standard today. You can imagine how invisible this one would be, if still green.
This is a Lamp box, a design first intitated in 1898 “now a regular feature of villages across Britain, often fitted to telegraph or lamp posts, or mounted on their own pedestals. The design has changed a little over the years in an attempt to increase their capacity, and importantly the aperture size, to allow for the larger letters of the modern era.” Postal museum
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