I was on holiday in North Wales in 1994 when I traveled up to Rhyl Station. to see a rare wooden 'bracket' box.. When I got there, all I could see was the painted outline on the wall where it had been for the previous 100+ years. After asking about, I discovered that the remains of the box were actually to be found in the rubbish skip. I rescued the bits, took it home and restored it to it’s former glory.
The work included stripping off as much as 3/8 inch of paint in some places. But doing it all by hand, I did find evidence of the original hand painted script at the top of the box.
I had all this faithfully copied and finished it off with a brand new enamel collection plate.
This gave me the start in collecting postboxes and it has gone downhill since to the point where we have nearly 200 boxes in the collection (January 2008).
Not all the examples in the collection were as bad as this one when they arrived .....
some have even been worse!!!
