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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Roadside letter boxes were a French innovation which *Trollope recommended in 1851 for use in Jersey. He envisaged a box set into a wall or on a metal pole, but the earliest surviving example in Britain (in Union Street, St Peter Port, Guernsey, dating from the 1850s) is already the traditional cast-iron pillar box, standing firmly on the pavement. Carlisle was the first city on the mainland to have a pillar box, in 1853; London had to wait until 1855. The standard design dates from 1879.
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