Pillar box, In front of 63 Wandsworth Road Belfast, County Antrim, BT4 3LT

Description 19/04/2016: Information from Royal Mail that this pillar box was removed during 2015. The pillar box is in storage and is being restored to be placed in the Titanic Building. Description 06/05/2015: A free-standing early 20th C George V cast-iron pillar box mounted (now slightly lopsided) on the outside edge of the footpath in front of a semidetached house on the SW side of Wandsworth Road. It faces away from the road. This pillar box is of standard design and painted in ‘pillarbox red’ throughout except for its base which is black and carries its maker’s name ‘Carron Company/ Stirlingshire’. It stands 5ft 0in high and measures 21¼in/15½in/16½in in diameter around its cap, shaft and base respectively. Below its shallow oversailing cap, around the edge of which are small decorative dentilations, is an indicator tablet holder. The actual tablet is now missing, but it would have shown the next collection day. To the left of this holder is ‘Next Collection’ in bas-relief and directly below it is the rectangular hooded aperture through which the letters are inserted into the box. Below the aperture is the door, hinged at left and protected by a lip along the front of the cap. At the top of the door is a notice plate holder with details of collection days/times. The number of this particular box is also given at the bottom of the notice (BT4 310). Below it is a crown in bas-relief, to the right of which is the door lock and handle. Below the crown is a ‘GR’ cipher and at the bottom of the door is ‘Post Office’; both are also in bas-relief. As noted above, the maker’s name is cast on the front of the base.