Dorset postboxes – Blandford Forum
| Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:38 Chris Downer |
There are 112 postboxes in the DT11 (Blandford Forum) postcode district, although four of those are within the Blandford Camp and, thus, with no public access are not included here. They are plotted on this map. Because this is a mainly rural area, there is a fair prevalence lamp and wall boxes over pillar boxes. Standard pillar boxes There are five standard-size pillar boxes in the area – respectively, one George V, three George VI and one Elizabeth II:      Modern pillar boxes There are five ‘Type K’ boxes, a familiar modern design, and these are by definition all Elizabeth II:      Large pillar boxes The area includes five of the fatter version of the pillar box; one Victorian, one George VI, and three Elizabeth II-reign:      Wall boxes There are 24 boxes, of whatever design, set into a brick structure. Three are Victorian and one (of an early design) Edward VII:     Three are George V-reign, two of them in the wall of a sub-post office:    Nine are George VI, the first here being a lamp box set into a wall:          And eight are Elizabeth II-reign, including the first three which are lamp boxes set into a wall:         Lamp boxes This is the most prevalent type of box, being a rural area, with 66 in all: Three of them are of an early rounded design, one George V and two George VI, each affixed to its own wooden post:    The other 62 are of the standard squareish design. Three of them are George VI-reign:    ...and the remaining 59 are Elizabeth II – six strapped to their own wooden post:       Seven to a telegraph pole:        One to a farm gate:  And 46 mounted on a metal pole:                                               Modern design lamp box There is one modern equivalent of the lamp box:  Business boxes These boxes started appearing in the mid-1990s and are for franked mail only – franked mail cannot be put in ordinary boxes and previously had to be handed in at a post office counter unless the Royal Mail collected from the business. Blandford has one: Incorporated into the fabric of a building Finally, the postbox at the town’s main post office is George V-reign, unusually including a GvR cipher (he is generally denoted by GR):  |
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