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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 23 NW 79 |
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| Type of record: | Building |
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| Name: | Victorian pillar box, Grimston Avenue / Sandgate Road |
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Summary
An hexagonal `Penfold Type' pillar box stands at the corner of Grimstone Avenue and Sandgate Road, opposite the Metropole Hotel. It is free-standing, and Victorian in date. On the base is inscribed `A Hardyside and Co Ltd Derby and London'.
| Grid Reference: | TR 2162 3553 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR23NW |
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| Parish: | FOLKESTONE, SHEPWAY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- PILLAR BOX (Post Medieval - 1893 AD to 1900 AD)
Full description
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A Victorian pillar box, Grimston Avenue / Sandgate Road. Letter Box Study Group Box Type: 15/2. Dates from 1893 to 1900. (1)
Description from record TR 23 NW 79:
TR 216355. A pillar box stands at the corner of Grimstone Avenue and Sandgate Road, opposite the Metropole Hotel (TR 216354). It is free-standing, and Victorian in date. On the base is inscribed 'A Hardyside & Co Ltd Derby & London'. (2)
Possibly confused with the listed Victorian pillar box further east down Sandgate Road. (2)
<1> The Letter Box Study Group, 2004, Letter Box Listing (Unpublished document). SKE17125.
<2> Ind Arch of SE Eng 1978 41 (A J Haselfoot) (OS Card Reference). SKE44229.
<3> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1>XY | Unpublished document: The Letter Box Study Group. 2004. Letter Box Listing. [Mapped feature: #62733 Letter Box, ] |
| <2> | OS Card Reference: Ind Arch of SE Eng 1978 41 (A J Haselfoot). |
| <3> | Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. |
