Simply Red: Postal Edition
When Becky announced that the theme of her July Squares challenge was to be Simply Red one of my first thoughts was my vast collection of post box pictures. Not all are suitable for squaring, but a surprising number are, especially those which show the box as part of a wider scene. Here is a gallery with a mixture of pillar boxes, wall boxes and lamp boxes with a bonus Post Office van.
Chapel of Garioch, Aberdeenshire
Greenhaugh, Northumberland
Aysgarth, Yorkshire
Castle Bolton, Yorkshire
Grinton, Yotkshire
Sedbusk, Yorkshire
Simonstone, Yorkshire
Dacre, Cumbria
Helton, Cumbria
Knipe, Cumbria
Eglwysbach, North Wales
Eglwysbach, North Wales
Eglwysbach, North Wales
Whitley Bay, North Tyneside
Beamish Museum
Jersey
Watermillock, Cumbria
Post Office van in Kilmacolm
Finally, here are a couple of toppers from London and Wales.
Camden October 2023
Conwy September 2023
And I couldn’t have planned this better if I had tried. This is my 1000th post – a real Red Letter Day!
The Glasgow Gallivanter 
Nice collection of red postal box and congratulations on your 1000 post.
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Thank you! Quite a milestone.
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What a fabulous collection of red post boxes – so bright and colourful 🙂
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Thanks – I have a little bit of an obsession!
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Woah – what a post, what an achievement and what a fabulous collection. This is fantastic 😀
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Thank you! I have many more where they came from but pictures of pillar boxes don’t tend to square.
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they can be such difficult models!
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Congratulations on your 1000th post, Anabel. This is a true Red Letter day indeed! ❤
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Thanks Donna – I had no idea 1000 posts ago how absorbing this hobby could be.
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Congratulations on your 1000th post and the wonderful selection of post boxes. You are all stamped up now for the next 1000!
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Stamped up – I see what you did there 😄.
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No individual favourites this time as my favourite colour is red so I like them all. Well done on the 1000th post, I’m only on 705 so a long way to go yet.
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Thanks Eunice, red has always been my favourite colour too. There is a picture of me aged 2 or 3 in a wee red raincoat, and to this day my rain jackets are nearly always red! It’s taken me 14 years to get to 1000. I wonder if I’ll still be blogging in another 14 years?
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I started the ‘mousehouse’ blog in October 2016, at the rate I’m going and at a rough guess it may be another 4 years before I hit 1000.
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Not too different then. If I take 14 years to get to 2000 I’ll be 82 and maybe won’t have much to write about! That’s a terrifying thought.
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congrats on the 1000. Red is such a dominant colour, especially when surrounded by grey or green
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Thanks Pauline. A splash of red certainly adds to any photo I think.
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That’s too funny! It’s a red letter day for sure. I love the symmetrical red building in that first post and the phone box gives you mega bonus points!!
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Thanks Bernie! That first one is a very cute little post office / tea room combination. I think we indulged. I also like the one with the phone box and, although you probably can’t make it out in this image, a finger post sign with a crown on top!
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Oh yes, I see that crown after I made the picture bigger. Good capture.
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I have a close up which will appear when I write that walk up.
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Congratulations on the 1000 post milestone. And what a great gallery of post boxes. I have another one coming up soon, from South Georgia. I do love the toppers. We don’t have them here, our post boxes are not the right shape.
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Thanks Carol! Yes, you really need that rounded top.
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Congratulations on your 1000th post…quite an accomplishment. This post is quite a lot of fun; nice pics. (Suzanne)
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Thanks Suzanne! Glad you liked my post boxes.
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“And I couldn’t have planned this better if I had tried. This is my 1000th post – a real Red Letter Day!”
Well done for having such a fine collection and the opportunity for a good joke too.
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Thanks Tom! I thought my 1000th post was going to be next week, then I decided to join Becky’s challenge and opportunity presented itself.
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Your ‘anniversary’ prompted me to look, and I find that I will be reaching fifteen years from my first post in a couple of days. I had no plan to keep going for so many years when I started, but I have got habituated to posting now.
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And if you have always posted daily you must be over 5000 by now!
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5,519 WP tells me.
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🏅👏
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Now that is something to celebrate, 1000 posts. Well done, Anabel and it is no surprise why your blog continues to shine.
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Thank you, Suzanne, that’s very kind!
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Oh, congratulations, Anabel! And it’s a great little collection xx
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Thank you, Jo!
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A lovely set of photos! I always like a good letterbox topper and am amazed at how skilled some of them are. Congratulations on your 1,000th post!! That’s quite a feat!
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Thank you! I will keep going.
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1000 posts is a wonderful milestone. Well done!
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Thank you!
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Excellent. You’ve managed a far greater variety of postboxes than I had i my post. I’m off to Beamish on Tuesday on a Photo Club outing, so I’ll have to look out for that one. Congratulations on your 1000th post!
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Thank you! Have a lovely day at Beamish. Hope you get better weather than we did – it was damp and cold, but then it was April.
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I’ve just sent out an urgent message. The weather’s going to be AWFUL.
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Oh no!
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Yup. Changed the day.
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Phew!
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It brings its own problems …
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🙁
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A great selection Anabel. Congratulations on 1000 posts a wonderful achievement
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Thank you! It has taken 14 years – will I make it to 2000??
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Most definitely 😁
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You sure love red boxes, Anabel! Good thing you are in the UK, where red seems to have a dominant presence. 🙂
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I got interested in post boxes when I got interested in the Suffragettes who poured ink into them as part of their protest. At first it was just the old ones that they might have used, now I like them all! A splash of red can make a photo.
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Another great idea for a theme! I especially liked the more remote rural scenes in Cumbria and Yorkshire, plus Beamish of course 😀 And congratulations on your 1,000th post 🥂
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Thanks Sarah! I like a post box with a view. Or a view with a post box. The Beamish one only just makes it into the picture but I thought it worth including.
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A red letter day indeed! (excuse the pun) and you know how much I love a post box. And a bonus bench too!
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Thanks Jude – a triple whammy!
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What a grand selection, Anabel!
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Thanks Sue – I thought so!
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😄😄
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By the way, I think your blog has decided I’m spam again! Two days in a row my comment has vanished into the ether.
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oh, rats, I shall go look!
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Actually, I don’t know how to check….
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Under comments on the dashboard – it should have a section for spam. I’ll try commenting on a different device tomorrow though I’m not sure that will fool it!
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Oh, that sounds right…
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Well, I’ve unspammed quite a number of comments from you in recent times… I’ve definitely gone off the boil as far as checking spam goes!
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I have no idea why WordPress takes against me sometimes!
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flipping cheek!
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Outrageous!
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Quite!!
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Congratulations on 1,000 posts and the post box fetish. 🙂
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Thanks – though fetish might be a tad strong, blame the Suffragettes for getting me started!
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