 |  Bunratty Folk Park |
This may look like many other postboxes – V.R. insignia, made by H & C Smith in Cork – but it has a very unusual feature – a feature that I have not seen on any other postbox, and I have photographed over 850 boxes – new, old, disused, red, green, or many different manufacturers.
There have been more than a few blogs hereabout on various matters relating to postboxes – alternatives use; additional insignia; Queen Elizabeth; old; older; and, oldest.
This postbox, as manufactured in Cork, is likely to have seen service in Ireland. It currently resides in the Bunratty Folk Park where we spent a very pleasant and pleasurable afternoon on Easter Saturday. I do recommend a visit.
There is a second box in the village section of Bunratty – another red box; Victoria Regina; but a Penfolds postbox, similar to Skibbereen.
There have been more than a few blogs hereabout on various matters relating to postboxes – alternatives use; additional insignia; Queen Elizabeth; old; older; and, oldest.
This postbox, as manufactured in Cork, is likely to have seen service in Ireland. It currently resides in the Bunratty Folk Park where we spent a very pleasant and pleasurable afternoon on Easter Saturday. I do recommend a visit.
There is a second box in the village section of Bunratty – another red box; Victoria Regina; but a Penfolds postbox, similar to Skibbereen.
 Bunratty Folk Park |  Sbibbereen, Co. Cork |
 Railway Station, Cobh |  |
The postbox manufactured by Smith is built into the wall of the Post Office building in the village. It was only when I went looking to photograph the name of the manufacturer that I noticed that the name was moulded upside down.
Who? Why? When? Where? And How? Are all questions for which I have no answers – only poor guesses.
It was great to spot. A find like that makes me wonder if there are more such gems out there in the next 850….
Who? Why? When? Where? And How? Are all questions for which I have no answers – only poor guesses.
It was great to spot. A find like that makes me wonder if there are more such gems out there in the next 850….
Upside Down - but why?
