Survey Data
Reg No
12006021
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Artistic
Original Use
Post box
In Use As
Post box
Date
1881 - 1922
Coordinates
251416, 155931
Date Recorded
27/07/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Wall-mounted cast-iron post box, between 1881-1922, with royal cipher removed. Set in random rubble stone boundary wall.
Appraisal
Representing an early-surviving artefact of mass-produced cast-iron ware a post box supplied by the W.T. Allen and Company Foundry of London forms an appealing, if subtle feature in the street scene. Although many of the raised details including the royal cipher have been removed further attributes including the manufacturer's signature identify the design aesthetic importance of the piece.