{"id":12980,"date":"2014-12-12T19:03:43","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T18:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=12980"},"modified":"2014-12-12T19:03:43","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T18:03:43","slug":"eye-spy-abingdon-post-boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=12980","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Post Boxes (V.R to E.R)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abingdon&#8217;s first pillar box was erected on Ock Street on August 6th 1857 (According to <em>The Postal History of Abingdon<\/em> by G H R Homer-Wooff).<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14121212.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Post Boxes\" \/><br \/>\nThere is still a pillar box on Ock Street, at the front of the Royal Mail sorting office, but the initials E.R. for Elizabeth Regina show that it was put there after 1953 &#8211; the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 1894 the Abingdon Directory shows that there were half a dozen post boxes in Abingdon:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ock Street &#8211; Pillar Box<\/li>\n<li>Park &#8211; Wall Box<\/li>\n<li>St Helens Wharf &#8211; Wall Box<\/li>\n<li>Vineyard &#8211; Wall Box<\/li>\n<li>Northcourt &#8211; Wall Box<\/li>\n<li>West End &#8211; Wall Box<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14121211.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Post Boxes\" \/><br \/>\nTwo of those wall boxes from the reign of Queen Victoria have survived:<\/p>\n<p>St Helen&#8217;s Wharf&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14121213.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Post Boxes\" \/><br \/>\nand Conduit Road.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14121210.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Post Boxes\" \/><br \/>\nThe latest Abingdon post box can be found inside the West St. Helen Street Co-op. It is made from shiney molded plastic, and looks like an oversized toy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abingdon&#8217;s first pillar box was erected on Ock Street on August 6th 1857 (According to The Postal History of Abingdon by G H R Homer-Wooff). There is still a pillar box on Ock Street, at the front of the Royal Mail sorting office, but the initials E.R. for Elizabeth Regina show that it was put [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-street-furniture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}