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'When you realise that happiness springs only from post boxes, you will learn both peace and joy' Daily Lama. For your daily slice of post box visit nailseapillarboxes.blogspot.com #postboxsaturday #benchmarkmonday

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dailypostbox.bsky.social @dailypostbox.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Tom Abell's 300no on the final day of this year's County Championship.
Scoreboard at Somerset showing Tom Abell's 300 no.
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dailypostbox.bsky.social @dailypostbox.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
EVIiR post box on Royal York Crescent, Clifton #PostboxSaturday
A red pillar box stands on a wide, elevated footway with iron railings. Behind, sweeping from left to right, is Clifton's Royal York Crescent  (Wm Paty, 1791) which - it's shallow curve of nearly 400 metres - is claimed to be the longest crescent in Europe.
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dailypostbox.bsky.social @dailypostbox.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
GR pillar box outside Cossham Memorial Hospital (1905 F Bligh Bond). The hospital clock tower is the traditional highest point of Bristol. #PostboxSaturday
A red pillar box, right, stands by a large blue and white sign under a spreading tree. To the left, the Queen Anne style Cossham Memorial Hospital, including its clock tower on the far left.
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dailypostbox.bsky.social @dailypostbox.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Alphabetti Spaghetti (Alex Chinneck), Cheese Lane Bristol. #PostboxSaturday
A sculpture of a traditional red pillar box tied with a knot in its middle. Behind, to the left and above, a dark tree trunk with green and gold leafy canopy. Beyond, in sunlight, the south aisle of a church.
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dailypostbox.bsky.social @dailypostbox.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
A cypherless wallbox opposite Gaol Ferry Bridge, Southville. #PostboxSaturday
A red postbox set in a wall under trees with a hint of autumnal colour. Behind is the tower of St Paul's, Southville against a blue sky with ragged white clouds.
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dailypostbox.bsky.social @dailypostbox.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
A GviR type A pillar box outside Ashton Gate. Behind is the Chris Garland mural. #PostboxSaturday
A red post box, left foreground, stands on a wide footpath next to a street. In the background, a row of shops and parked cars. Top, on the gable end of The Coopers Arms, is a mural (Spike Clark) of Chris Garland, one of the Ashton Gate Eight - players who, in 1982, cancelled their contracts to save Bristol City FC from bankruptcy.
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dailypostbox.bsky.social @dailypostbox.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Double type G pillar boxes and a K6 telephone kiosk in Henleaze, Bristol. #PostboxSaturday
Two square red postboxes, left, next to a red telephone kiosk on a block footpath by a suburban street. Immediately behind is a corner shop front and on the far left, almost out of picture, is an amber Belisha beacon on a black and white hooped pole.
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dailypostbox.bsky.social @dailypostbox.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Looking up School Lane, Wick St Lawrence. To the right, an EiiR postbox built into the wall of a cottage. To the left, the calvary and broken shaft of a village cross. The remains of another cross are in the nearby churchyard. #PostboxSaturday
An unmetalled lane runs up the centre of the photograph to a distant building, once the village school. To the right, the rendered wall of a cottage with a red postbox built into it under a notice board. To the left, the stone steps of an octagonal calvary lead up to the broken shaft of a village cross. According to the Historic England listing, the cross once had a ball head.
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dailypostbox.bsky.social @dailypostbox.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
This type A postbox sporting the GR cypher could really use a fresh coat of paint. Henleaze, Bristol. #PostboxSaturday
A red postbox, centre, stands on a wide suburban footpath under a pale blue sky.
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dailypostbox.bsky.social @dailypostbox.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
A replica penfold postbox on Beach Road, Weston-super-Mare. #PostboxSaturday
A hexagonal, red pillar box stands beside Beach Road. Beyond the postbox is an end-on view of a white ferris wheel. On the footpath to the right of the postbox is a glass-sided bus shelter.
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dailypostbox.bsky.social @dailypostbox.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
A type c EiiR postbox in Westbury-on-Trym #PostboxSaturday
A red dual aperture pillar box, right, stands on a strip of parched grass by a footpath. Immediately behind runs a redbrick wall. Behind the wall stands a rendered wall painted blue, covered with faded murals.
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dailypostbox.bsky.social @dailypostbox.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
An EVIIIR post box loitering in a hedge in deepest Henleaze, Bristol. #PostboxSaturday
A red post box stands on a footpath in front of a low redbrick wall under a leafy hedge.
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dailypostbox.bsky.social @dailypostbox.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
EiiR lampbox next to what appears to be a vent pipe that someone has stuffed Bill (or possibly Ben) down head-first. St Georges, Weston-super-Mare. #postboxsaturday
Red Post Box on a black post with a street scene with trees behind. On the left is a green vent pipe with what looks like one of the Flower Pot Men's legs sticking out at the top.
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dailypostbox.bsky.social @dailypostbox.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
EiiR post box with Congresbury village cross behind. #postboxsaturday
A red pillar box stands behind bollards at the edge of a brick paved footpath. Behind, centre, is a C15th village cross on its calvery. To the left, The Congresbury Arms.
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dailypostbox.bsky.social @dailypostbox.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
An EiiR type c postbox, with The Lord Mayor's Chapel, Bristol in the background. The west front is a C19th replica, the original ('intensely picturesque and romantic' - Pevsner) stands in a private garden in Henbury. #PostboxSaturday
The back of a red pillar box, foreground left on a wide footpath. In the centre is the west front of The Lord Mayor's Chapel, including a twelve-petalled rose window above eight lancets.
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dailypostbox.bsky.social @dailypostbox.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
A GR 'hovis' post box in Wick St Lawrence. #PostboxSaturday
A red lamp box with a rounded roof attached to a pole.
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dailypostbox.bsky.social @dailypostbox.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
A 'Handyside' GR wall box outside the former Keeper's Cottage, Worlebury. #PostboxSaturday
A red postbox set into a brick pillar, left foreground. Behind is the former Keeper's Lodge (1820) at Weston Woods, featuring a castellated roof and pointed arch windows set in rendered white walls.
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dailypostbox.bsky.social @dailypostbox.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Kewstoke, accompanied by the tinkling of goldfinch and wheezing of greenfinch. #FingerPostFriday
A black post with white pointers, left to Weston-super-Mare and Bristol, right to Sand Bay. The post is set upon a grassy bank with a wooden bench behind.
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dailypostbox.bsky.social @dailypostbox.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
#LawnFlowers #NoMowSummer #WildflowerHour
Lawn 'meadow' with oxeye daisies, birdsfoot trefoil, cats-ear and a single red poppy.
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dailypostbox.bsky.social @dailypostbox.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
EiiR pillar box outside 'The Beach Bar' at Pontins, Sand Bay #postboxsaturday
To the right, a red post box emerges from a rosemary bush. In the centre, behind rustic wooden benches and two stacked planters is a glass-fronted single story building. Above the entrance is a brightly coloured sign painted with a lagoon and palm trees reading 'The Beach Bar'.
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dailypostbox.bsky.social @dailypostbox.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
EiiR type C post box and a pair of KX telephone kiosks outside York and Selby Magistrates Court (Huon A Matear). 'What styles of the past have begotten this?' - Pevsner. #postboxsaturday
A red double aperture post box stands with other street furniture in front of the late Victorian (1890-92) York and Selby Magistrates Court. Red brick with ashlar dressings. Two stories plus basement and dormers, bays, lanterns and a clock tower, carved reliefs and anything else the architect could throw at it.
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dailypostbox.bsky.social @dailypostbox.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Yew in the churchyard at Holy Trinity, Nailsea. #thicktrunktuesday
The thick, red knotted trunk of a yew tree, its canopy dark against a blue sky. A three light perpendicular church window behind, left.
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dailypostbox.bsky.social @dailypostbox.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
EiiR lamp box on platform 2, Weston-super-Mare railway station. #postboxsaturday
Looking north east along the curved platform 2 of Weston-super-Mare railway station. To the left between benches, a red lamp box on a post. In the centre, the platform stretches out under a canopy with decoratively painted iron supports. A few passengers are clustered at the end of the platform. To the right, under a strip of blue sky, a train prepares to depart.
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dailypostbox.bsky.social @dailypostbox.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
GR pillar box in front of the former public library, Weston-super-Mare (Hans Price). The text on the carved panel above the doorway reads 'Public Library & Museum VR 1837-1897'. #postboxsaturday
A red pillar box, bottom left, stands in front of the former public library, Weston-super-Mare (Hans Price). The building is in red brick with Bath stone dressings and includes sculpted figures and motifs (Harry Hems) above the central doorway and again on the pilasters either side.
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dailypostbox.bsky.social @dailypostbox.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
A slightly wonky Victorian pillar box in Redland, Bristol for #postboxsaturday
A red pillar box with VR cipher standing at a slightly rakish angle at the corner of a street. Stone garden walls, foliage and trees behind.
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dailypostbox.bsky.social @dailypostbox.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
A wall box with the 'Post Office' lettering but no royal cipher. Weston-super-Mare. #postboxsaturday
A red postbox set in a stone wall with dark tree trunks behind
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dailypostbox.bsky.social @dailypostbox.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
A Victorian pillar box with a glimpse of Clifton Down in the sunshine behind. #postboxsaturday
A red Victorian pillar box stands beside a road. Behind is a strip of grass, mostly in the shade of the terraced houses behind us. Beyond the grass, scrubland in sunshine under a pale blue sky.
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dailypostbox.bsky.social @dailypostbox.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
St John's York The fierth day, sal swilk a wonder be The mast wondreful fisshes of the se Sal com to-gyder and mak swilk roryng That it sal be hydus til mans heryng Bot what that roryng sal signify, Na man whit, bot God almyghty #stainedglasssunday
 Light 1, panel 3 from the 'Pricke of Conscience' window, St John's York. Three fish, each with their mouths open and showing their sharp teeth, rise from the surface of a grey sea into a clear but ominously dark blue sky.
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dailypostbox.bsky.social @dailypostbox.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
The Penfold at Laura Place, Bath. #postboxsaturday
A hexagonal red pillar box with a VR cypher on a pavement with out of focus vehicles and buildings behind
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dailypostbox.bsky.social @dailypostbox.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
An EiiR post box underneath Baile Hill, York. #postboxsaturday
A red pillar box stands in front of a low wall. Behind, the grassy mound of an earth motte, the sun filtering through the bare branches of the trees now growing on it. On the left, a fragment of York Bar Walls descends to a bridge across the River Ouse (out of picture).
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dailypostbox.bsky.social @dailypostbox.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
A smart anonymous post box in an equally smart corner of Clifton, Bristol. #postboxsaturday
An anonymous (no royal cipher) post box on a street with a hedge and Victorian houses behind.
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dailypostbox.bsky.social @dailypostbox.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
A gold EiiR pillar box overlooked by the statues of Mars and Sol on Cardiff Castle Clock Tower. Mae'r blwch postio hwn wedi cael ei baentio'n aur gan y Post Brenhinol i ddathlu Geraint Thomas Enillydd Medal Aur Gemau Olympiadd Llundain 2012 Beicio: Trac - Cwrso Carfan Dynion #postboxsaturday
A gold-painted pillar box, centre, with Cardiff Castle Clock Tower behind.
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dailypostbox.bsky.social @dailypostbox.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Possibly not thick enough for #thicktrunktuesday ? but I really liked the twist in this tree trunk. Museum Gardens, York
A leafless late winter tree, almost in silhouette, stretches up into a partly blue sky
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dailypostbox.bsky.social @dailypostbox.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
An Edward vii postbox set into a wall at Barrow Court, North Somerset #postboxsaturday
A country lane, wet with rain and scattered with bright autumn leaves, left foreground. On the right, a stone wall with a red post box and a bush with bright yellow leaves. Centre midground is a tall stone house, formally the gatehouse to Barrow Court.
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dailypostbox.bsky.social @dailypostbox.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
This be-stickered GR pillar box stands in front of WD Caröe's neo-gothic Aberdare Hall, Cardiff. #postboxsaturday
A red pillar box, left, stands on a street in front of a low brick wall. Behind is the neo-gothic Aberdare Hall, a student hall of residence.
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dailypostbox.bsky.social @dailypostbox.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Twin EiiR pillar boxes, the nearer one converted for solar power. Meanwhile to the left, a rainwater downpipe runs at jaunty angle across a wall. Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset. #postboxsaturday
Two red pillar boxes, centre, across a street with a painted 'keep clear' sign partially obscured by a parked car. Centre left a down pipe from a roof gutter runs at an interesting angle, presumably to avoid snagging the shop front steel shutter, left.
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dailypostbox.bsky.social @dailypostbox.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
A CiiiR lamp box stands brightly beside a rather gloomy tile roofed bus shelter in Lower Langford, North Somerset. #postboxsaturday
A tile roofed bus shelter with parish notices and half-barrel planters, bus stop sign on the left and postbox on the right
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dailypostbox.bsky.social @dailypostbox.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
The penfold pillar box at the eastern end of Great Pulteney Street, Bathwick, with sunshine lighting up the Georgian terrace behind. #postboxsaturday
A red pillar box on a paved footpath, a street with parked vehicles behind it and a Georgian terrace on the far side of the street.
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dailypostbox.bsky.social @dailypostbox.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
This EiiR lamp box can be found on Love Lane, Burnham-on-Sea - perhaps an appropriate location for today's date. #postboxsaturday
A red lamp box on a post on a green verge, with a street and houses in the background
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dailypostbox.bsky.social @dailypostbox.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
A bit of a squeeze between some railings and the back of this type k post box in order to include the Redland Library building ('1885 Bristol Free Library Redland Branch' on the gable end) in the photograph. #postboxsaturday
A red pillar box in the foreground with a side-on view of the Redland Library building behind under a bright blue sky
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dailypostbox.bsky.social @dailypostbox.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Two type k pillar boxes half way up Bristol's Park Street. Once there must have been a high volume of letter-posting here - there are two double aperture type c boxes within 200 meters of this handsome pair. #postboxsaturday
Two red post boxes standing on the pedestrian pavement in the foreground, with moving traffic behind and a yellow Thrift Store shop front on the far side of the road.
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dailypostbox.bsky.social @dailypostbox.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Hysbysiad Gwsmeriaid Yn anffodus, mae’r Post Brenhinol wedi gorfod gwneud y blwch postio hwn yn anweithredol am nad yw twf y goeden a r ffaith fod y palmant wedi codi bellach yn ei wneud yn ddiogel l gasglu post o’r blwch hwn. Y Rhath, Caerdydd #postboxsaturday
A tree growing around a VR pillar box
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dailypostbox.bsky.social @dailypostbox.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
A 'diabolical' lamp box (number BS20 666D) stands amidst vaguely Rothko-esque fields of colour. Portishead, North Somerset. #postboxsaturday
A postbox, centre, set against a foreground of short green grass, a blush brown midground of tall grasses, and pale blue sky.
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dailypostbox.bsky.social @dailypostbox.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
A worn but functional GR 'hovis' lamp box in a hedge in deepest Barrow Gurney (home of brother Ernie in 'Drink Up Thy Zider'), North Somerset. #postboxsaturday
A 'hovis' lamp box in a beech hedge
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dailypostbox.bsky.social @dailypostbox.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
A Victorian pillar box, missing its collection plate, in Weston-super-Mare. Behind is the town hall, built in a 'vaguely Italianate style' (Weston Mercury). #postboxsaturday
Victorian postbox, centre, In front of the Victorian-built Weston-super-Mare town hall.
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dailypostbox.bsky.social @dailypostbox.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
An 'anonymous' pillar box on the Bristol side of the Clifton Suspension Bridge. #postboxsaturday
An 'anonymous' pillar box, with no royal cipher, with the eastern tower of the Clifton Suspension Bridge in the background.
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dailypostbox.bsky.social @dailypostbox.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
A type M post box among street furniture with Christmas decorations. Walton Bay, North Somerset. #postboxsaturday
Rural bus stop, post box, parish noticeboard, bench and pole with Christmas decorations.
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dailypostbox.bsky.social @dailypostbox.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
EIIR pillar box in front of Charles Holden's 'extremely pretty' (Pevsner) Bristol Central Library. #postboxsaturday
A red EIIR pillar box in front of Bristol Central Library
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dailypostbox.bsky.social @dailypostbox.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
This George VI wall box shelters from the weather in a shallow ashlar niche under an ogee arch. Clevedon, North Somerset. #postboxsaturday
An ashlar niche in a rubble wall containing a letter box with GVIR cipher.
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dailypostbox.bsky.social @dailypostbox.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
A nice Victorian wall box on the northbound platform at Yatton railway station. #postboxsaturday
View south west down the railway line from Yatton station platform 2. VR wall box on the right.
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