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Drumsheugh Gardens off Queensferry Street, West End, Edinburgh |
November 2010
© Copyright: For permission to reproduce, please contact peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk Photograph taken November 29, 2010
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Drumsheugh Gardens |
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Pillar Box This is a 'double pillar box. It has two slots for posting, and has greater capacity to cope with the large number of letters likely to be posted here, in the West End of Edinburgh. |
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Royal Cyphers This pillar box was installed in the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. Like other pillar boxes installed in Scotland in her reign, it has the 'Scottish Crown' but does not have the 'EIIR' Royal Cypher. Similar pillar boxes in England have the 'EIIR' Royal Cypher surmounted by the 'St Edwards Crown'. The Post Office decided, at an early stage in the reign of the current queen, not to add the 'EIIR' Royal Cypher to boxes in Scotland following protests from Scottish Nationalists that the current queen is the first Queen Elizabeth to have reigned in Scotland * * Queen Elizabeth 1 reigned in England from 1558 to 1603 The Act of Union between England and Scotland did not come into effect until 1707 |