Sherborne: an Olympic gold postbox
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Sherborne: an Olympic gold postbox by Chris Downer as part of the Geograph project.
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Sherborne: an Olympic gold postbox
Image: © Chris Downer Taken: 25 May 2013
The postbox outside Image has been painted gold in honour of local man Peter Wilson, who won one of Britain's first gold medals at the London 2012 Olympics. All Olympic and Paralympic gold medallists had a local postbox painted gold to mark the feat.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.948592
Longitude
-2.516255