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Oxford post boxes: Edward VII (1901–1910)

Pillar box at end of Norham Gardens
Pillar box at junction of Norham
Gardens and Parks Road [H]

Pillar box at Mansfield Road
Pillar box in
Mansfield Road [H]

Pillar box in Marston Street
Pillar box in
Marston Street [M]

  

Pillar box in Abingdon Road
Pillar box on east side of Abingdon
Road, just S of police station [M]

Pillar box in Banbury Road
Pillar box on W. side of
Banbury Rd, outside No. 73 [M]

Pillar box at Walton Street
Pillar box outside Post Office
at 36 Walton Street [M]

 

Pillar box in Divinity Road
Pillar box near the lower
end of Divinity Road [M]

Linton Road
Pillar box at the junction of Linton
Road and Northmoor Road [M]

Bullingdon Road
Pillar box at Bullingdon Road
and Hurst Street junction [M]

 

Wall box, St Giles
Wall box in St Giles’s Street,
outside St Giles’ House [A]

Wall box in Abingdon Road
Wall box at 256 Abingdon Road
(Old Post Office, W. side) [A]


Just outside Oxford: Wall box on the
road leading to Boars Hill [A]

  

Pillar boxes from the reign of Edward VII are inscribed “ER” with a small “VII” in the lower curl of the letter E. Some of the wall boxes also have this cypher, but most are plainer.

In this reign all boxes still had the standard 6¼-inch (15.9cm) aperture, but by the end of the 1960s under the “one-in-every-village” scheme over 3000 had been modified to the present 8-inch (20.3cm) aperture in the 1960s: the only example of this shown above is the last one, which was altered as there was no alternative box with a larger aperture nearby.

Key:

  • [H] Pillar box manufactured up to 1905 by Handyside (Derby & London),
    with short door (aperture above the door)
  • [M] Pillar box manufactured from 1905 by McDowall, Steven & Co. Ltd. (London & Glasgow),
    with long door (aperture is part of the door)
  • [A] Wall box manufactured by W.T. Allen & Co, London
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