Last Post - Guerrilla Garden

 

Guerrilla Garden at ST7 108

Last Post - The Book

Hand-bound book of reproductions of all contributions to Last Post

'Petroglyph' by Elise McWilliams, Oxford, UK

"This is a painting I did of a Petroglyph found in Petrified Forest National Park, in Arizona, US. Petroglyphs are kind of like the 'Last Post' of the Native Americans who originally lived in this part of the US. They were carving these symbols into the rocks until they left this area, around 1000AD. I found all of this information when I was an Artists-in-Residence there this summer. Wonderful experience, and I made this painting while there." Elise McWilliams

'Ways of a Postman', Andreas Horn, Bremen, Germany
'Gedanken sind der Anfang von Taten' 'Thoughts are for the beginning of deeds'

Stoke-on-Trent's oldest post box (1860) in The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Hanley. It is still in use - collections at 3.30pm, daily.
"A rare First National Standard letter box, it was manufatcured in 1860 at Cochrane and Co's Woddside Ironworks, Dudley. This historic letter box is one the oldest in the counrtry, produces just eight years after the first pillar boxes were erected in Jersey in 1852. The box stood for nearly 100 years outside the Parish Church at Blurton, until it was taken out of commission in 1956...Visitors are often surprised at its colour. It is not painted the familar pillar box, but 'bronze green'. This, research has shown, was the original colour. Pillar box red was not introduced as the official colour until 1874, to increase their visibility."

Ornate Victorian Post Box, Edinburgh, Nicholson Street/South Bridge area. EH1 136, From The Brown Family, Edinburgh, UK

Post Box Closed

Bit too late for this box at Edinburgh Railway Station, Unique Code EH1 98, From The Browns, Edinburgh, UK