Blandford Forum: postbox № DT11 2000, The Plocks

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Blandford Forum: postbox № DT11 2000, The Plocks

Image: © Chris Downer Taken: 1 Feb 2009

This postbox is outside Image and has separate slots for first and second class post. It has an unusual George V stone at the bottom, with GvR cipher, dated 1935 – the standard George V cipher on red pillar boxes is GR, without the numeral. It is emptied finally at 6pm on weekdays and at 12:15pm on Saturdays.

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Image Location

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Latitude
50.857178
Longitude
-2.163473