Victorian pillar box in Scotch Street, Carlisle : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Victorian pillar box in Scotch Street, Carlisle / Robert Cutts
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| 説明 | Unfortunately, as the plaque makes clear, it's a replica. It commemorates the fact that Carlisle was the first place in mainland Britain to have a roadside pillar box. That's prompts a question. Why mainland Britain? The answer lies in this quote from Wikipedia:"'The advent of the British wayside letter box can be traced to Sir Rowland Hill, Secretary of the Post Office, and his Surveyor for the Western District, and noted novelist, Anthony Trollope. Hill sent Trollope to the Channel Islands to ascertain what could be done about the problem of collecting the mail on a pair of islands. The problems identified in the Channel Islands were caused by the irregular sailing times of the Royal Mail packet boats serving the islands due to weather and tides."Trollope subsequently arrived in Jersey in the early Spring of 1852 and proceeded to survey both islands. His recommendation back to Hill was to employ a device he may have seen in use in Paris: a “letter-receiving pillar”. It was to be made of cast iron, about 1.5 metres high, octagonal in design and painted olive green. Trollope estimated that four would be needed for Guernsey and five for Jersey. The foundry of Vaudin & Son in Jersey was commissioned to produce them and the first four were erected in David Place, New Street, Cheapside and St Clement's Road Saint Helier and brought into public use on November 23, 1852. Guernsey received its first three pillar boxes on February 8, 1853."And the Carlisle pillar box was installed in 1853. |
| 撮影日 | 2008-07-19 23:41:55 |
| 撮影者 | Robert Cutts , Bristol, England, UK |
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