To honour the achievements of British gold medallist’s at the 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics, a number of post boxes in their respective hometowns throughout the United Kingdom were repainted gold. And if you visit the high street you will notice Alcester has it very own golden post box – this is thanks to Alcester local Nick Skelton winning the top prize in the Team Show Jumping event. But this isn’t the only tribute to Nick’s achievement – Nicks birthplace of Bedworth also has its very own Gold painted post box after hundreds of residents there backed a Facebook campaign to mark the success.
Nick won gold on the sixth of August. The photo below was taken by me two days later which tells you the Royal Mail got to work very quickly!
The post box is a Type-C oval pillar box and was originally located just outside the Post Office at the bottom of the High Street. The Post Office has since moved and so has the box, but only a couple of metres closer to the road.
Picture taken on Tuesday the 8th of August 2012
