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Royal Mail celebrated every gold medal won by a British athlete during the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games by repainting one of their iconic red pillar boxes gold for each gold medal winning Olympian or Paralympian. Sarah Storey won four gold medals, so four postboxes were painted gold in her honour. This one celebrates Sarah’s gold medal winning performance for the track cycling Women's Individual C4-5 500m time trial event. It is at the corner of Ash Road and Yewtree Lane, near to Poynton High School where Sarah was a pupil. In total, Team GB won 29 Gold Medals for the Olympic Games and 34 Gold Medals for the Paralympic Games; for team medals, a post box was painted gold for all team members (see http://www.geograph.org.uk/article/Olympic-Gold-Post-Boxes for list and more examples). This was the first occasion in modern times that Royal Mail had changed the colour of their post boxes from the traditional red which has been the standard colour for UK boxes from 1874, with very few exceptions. The original plan was for the boxes to be returned to their traditional red colour but in November, it was announced that they would remain gold and that a plaque would be fixed to each one (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20183986 BBC News). http://www.goldpostboxes.com/ Royal Mail Gold Postbox Finder

Long gardens, with a stream at the bottom,Park Lane.

This was originally the local Co-operative store, and is unusual in being stone-built rather than in the local brick.

A standard Cheshire County Council cast-iron example.

Overdoing it with all the signs; Museum, dumpit site, golf club, weight limit, height limit, original old pre- Worboys signs, as well as a temporary road closure.

Pawn finial - 3 arms; Cheshire CCC octagonal by the UC road, in parish of Poynton with Worth (Macclesfield District), Newtown, Poynton, junction with Middlewood Road. Surveyed Milestone Society National ID: CH_SJ9383

This was the railway access to Lord Pit and Lady Pit, originally a rope work incline, but locomotive hauled from about 1889. The section visible here is more or less level and would have been horse drawn rather than rope worked until that time.

Crossing the corner of an open space at the eastern end of Poynton.

These are the remaining buildings at the site of Lady Pit. At one stage derelict, they have been well restored and converted to office use. The nearer building was the capstan house, the one behind being the main winding engine house.

This takes its name from the last use of the building - it contained pumping equipment to help drain other local mines after coal ceased to be extracted here - but this was in fact the winding engine house for the Lady Pit. Once derelict, it has been sympathetically restored and converted to offices. The right hand extension is entirely modern.