Picture golden postbox at Horsforth, Leeds.Royal Mail decided to honour each Olympic gold medal winner by painting gold a post box near their home. Each British Olympic winner will have their very own gold post box and also will feature on a postage stamp too.
This post box is at New Road Side in Horsforth, Leeds and it was painted gold yesterday to celebrate the Olympic Gold medal won by Alistair Brownlee.
Shortly after I took the above photo several people were having their photo taken next to the golden post box. Royal mail post boxes have been their distinctive pillar box red since 1874 when the first new post boxes were painted that colour, but it took around 10 years to repaint the earlier ones.
Update:
Since I wrote this Nicola Adams from Leeds has won Gold! Nicola boxed and beat Chinese boxer and world number one Ren Cancan at the Olympics and has sealed her place in history winning the first womens Olympic gold medal for boxing. The gold win by Nicola takes the Yorkshire tally at this Olympics to 5 gold medal champions.
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Excellent- that went up quickly, or rather was painted quickly. I hear Yorkshire has been doing well- BBC North-West tonight was laying claim to lots of GB medals too this week, though personally I am not bothered about the medals-but I just enjoy the diverse sports and countries that take part ;-)
ReplyDeleteI just read another reference to how great Yorkshire is doing in today's paper :) This looks a terrific way to celebrate, iconic post boxes for an iconic Olympics!
ReplyDeleteLove the idea of painting a post box gold for every gold medal! It looks very distinguished, too.
ReplyDeleteI read about this. Nice way to honour the winners.
ReplyDeleteWondered what one of the gold postboxes might look like, now I know, thanks Paul!
ReplyDeleteVery 'bling!'
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