Red letter days
Nov 24, 2021
2 minutes
his month I want to talk about letterboxes. The earliest letterboxes that appeared in the 1850s were green but there was general outcry that this colour was too difficult to spot, so by 1874 they began turning red. Not for the first time, I’m beginning a column where you might be thinking, ‘What on Earth has this got to do with oldie
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