The classic red postbox remains a fixture in towns and villages across Britain, but many most likely won't stop to consider what the varying symbols mean, and their significance in terms of local history.
Taking to a local Facebook community page, one history buff remarked that he imagined plenty of people weren't aware that post boxes bear the royal cypher of the reigning king and queen at the time of construction.
Sharing a pic of his own local postbox, the man noted that it was marked with the cypher of Queen Elizabeth II's father King George VI, meaning it would have had to have been built more than 70 years ago.
