In the months leading up to The Queen’s coronation in 1953, the Post Office continued the long tradition of replacing post boxes throughout the country with new ones - marked with E II R, which stands for Elizabeth II Regina.
But this would not go down well with some Scots, who argued that Scotland never had a Queen Elizabeth to begin with, so how could there possibly be a second?
On November 28, 1952, in Edinburgh's Inch housing estate, an official party gathered at the junction of Gilmerton Road and Walter Scott Avenue to unveil Scotland’s first E II R post box.
