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."