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Postbox dates back to Victorian times
Liverpool Sunday Echo
|July 06, 2025
A RARE piece of Victorian history can still be seen in Birkenhead - and many people pass by it every day without realising how special it is.
The red postbox on Ashville Road, near the junction with Cavendish Road, is one of the few surviving "Penfold" postboxes in the UK.
It dates back to the 1860s and is named after its designer, John Wornham Penfold.
Only around 150 original Penfold boxes remain in Britain today and just 20 of those are the earliest kind, known as “Mark 1”. The Ashville Road box is one of them.
This story is from the July 06, 2025 edition of Liverpool Sunday Echo.
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