British Post Boxes
Author | : Jack A. Gunn |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1291236279 |
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Author | : Jack A. Gunn |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1291236279 |
Author | : Jean Farrugia |
Publisher | : Ecclesia Life Mana |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
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Author | : Martin Robinson |
Publisher | : Shire Publications |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2008-03-04 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 9780747804468 |
Pillar boxes were first introduced into Britain at the instigation of novelist and Post Office Surveyor Anthony Trollope. Nowadays the red postbox is a familiar sight in any city street or country lane. Because of their sturdy cast-iron construction British letter boxes are very durable, and examples of virtually every type from Queen Victoria's reign onwards can still be found. Pillar boxes, wall boxes of various kinds, lamp boxes and other non-standard specimens are included in this survey. It also describes and illustrates some of those from the Channel Islands, where pillar boxes were first introduced in 1852, from Scotland, which has had its own design of letter boxes since the Queen's accession in 1952, and others from the heart of London to the depths of rural Wales and the Irish Republic.
Author | : Karen Greene |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2014-12-29 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0393734099 |
A great gift book for lovers of unsung urban decorative art and unique architectural details. Mailboxes and their chutes were once as essential to the operation of any major hotel, office, civic, or residential building as the front door. In time they developed a decorative role, in a range of styles and materials, and as American art deco architecture flourished in the 1920s and 1930s they became focal points in landmark buildings and public spaces: the GE Building, Grand Central Terminal, the Woolworth Building, 29 Broadway, the St. Regis Hotel, York & Sawyer’s Salmon Tower, the Waldorf Astoria, and many more. While many mailboxes have been removed, forgotten, disused, or painted over (and occasionally repurposed), others are still in use, are polished daily, and hold a place of pride in lobbies throughout the country. A full-color photographic survey of beautiful early mailboxes, highlighting those of the grand art deco period, together with a brief history of the innovative mailbox-and-chute system patented in 1883 by James Cutler of Rochester, New York, Art Deco Mailboxes features dozens of the best examples of this beloved, dynamic design’s realization in the mailboxes of New York City as well as Chicago, Philadelphia, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, and beyond.
Author | : Duncan Campbell-Smith |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 840 |
Release | : 2011-11-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0141973226 |
The origins of the Post Office go back to the early years of the Tudor monarchy: Brian Tuke, a former King's Bailiff in Sandwich, was acknowledged as the first 'Master of the Posts' by Cardinal Wolsey in 1512, and went on to build up a network of 'postmasters' across England for Henry VIII. Over the following five hundred years the Royal Mail expanded to an unimaginable degree to become the largest employer in the country, and the face of the British state for most people in their everyday lives. But it also faced the demands of an increasingly commercial marketplace. With the election of Margaret Thatcher in 1979, the possibility of privatising the Royal Mail has prompted passionate arguments - and has added immeasurably to the difficulties of running it. In charting the whole of this extraordinary story, Duncan Campbell-Smith recounts a series of remarkable tales, including how postal engineers built the first programmable computer for the wartime code-breakers of Bletchley Park and how the Royal Mail managed to successfully continue delivering post to the front lines during two world wars, but also how they failed to avert the Great Train Robbery of 1963. He brings to life many of the dominant personalities in the Royal Mail's history - from Rowland Hill, who imposed a uniform penny post and set the great Victorian expansion on its way, to Tony Benn who championed the modernisation of the service in the 1960s and Tom Jackson who led the postal workers' biggest union through fifteen frequently stormy years up to 1982. This is the first complete history of the Royal Mail up to the present day, based on its comprehensive archives, and including the first detailed account of the past half-century of Britain's postal history, made possible by privileged access to confidential records. Today's debate over the future of the Royal Mail is shown to be just the ;atest chapter in a centuries-old conflict between its roles raising revenue and serving the public. Will its employees remain, like Brian Tuke's postmasters, servants of the Crown? This book could hardly appear at a more timely moment.
Author | : Lucy Razzall |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2021-08-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108831338 |
Uses the idea of the box in early modern England to develop a new direction in book history and material culture.
Author | : Norman Watson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Political postcards |
ISBN | : 9780952876267 |
Author | : Franz Zeier |
Publisher | : McGraw Hill Professional |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1990-08 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780830634835 |
In this introduction to the techniques of bookbinding, Franz Zeier guides readers step-by-step through projects for making a variety of boxes, portfolios, book covers, photograph albums, mats, and sewn and adhesive
Author | : Martin Robinson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Mailboxes |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Andrew Murray Scott |
Publisher | : Mainstream Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
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