Thursday 8 May 2014

In Sale with Edward VIII

Now this is one you don’t see everyday.

My friend Lawrence came across it recently, and promised to send me this picture.

He tells me that it is an “Edward VIII post-box. It's on Framingham Road near the corner of Wood Road in Brooklands, Sale. Picture taken on a May Bank holiday Monday but the next collection was indicated for Wednesday.”

It is unusual in that there can’t be that many of them.

Edward VIII was the King we never had or to be more accurate the one who was not crowned. 

He was christened Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David and succeeded his father King George V in January 1936.

But then romance and Mrs Simpson intervened and  given the opposition from elements of the ruling class he chose her and not the crown and abdicated in December of the same year.

Meanwhile everyday life went on and post boxes were replaced and new one sited and in the way of things this one got to see the light of day on Wood Road sometime during 1936.

So it always pays to have a camera and to look out for the unusual and having spotted the  unusual  make sure it has been recorded.

After all you never know when you may be called upon to provide that all important pub quiz answer.

Picture; courtesy of Lawrence Beadle

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