Number 1744 in a series of caches where a red telephone box is in close proximity to a post box.
The only rules are that they have to be able to be photographed together, be not more than 100’ apart and the phone boxes have to be red.
Charles l made a postal service available to the public - the recipient paying the postage! The postal service evolved through a network of mail coaches, uniformed postmen (1793), mail trains, money orders (1838) and the uniform penny post in 1840.
Designed in 1935 to commemorate the silver jubilee of King George V the K6 was the first red telephone kiosk to be used extensively outside of London. replacing most of the existing kiosks and establishing thousands of new sites. It has become a British icon, although it was not universally loved at the start. The red colour caused particular local difficulties and there were many requests for less visible colours. The red that is now much loved was then anything but, and the Post Office was forced into allowing a less strident grey with red glazing bars scheme for areas of natural and architectural beauty. Ironically, some of these areas that have preserved their telephone boxes have now painted them red.
The cache can be found ABC.DD feet away on a bearing of DE.BAE where
A = Third number of the postbox number minus the first number of the postbox number
B = First number of the postbox number
C = First number of the postbox number plus the third number of the postbox number
D = First number of the postbox number plus the second number of the postbox number
E = Fourth number of the postbox number minus the first number of the postbox number
If anybody would like to place 'A Fine Pair' of their own please do. I would just ask that you first visit www.afinepair.co.uk to request a number to avoid any duplication
mattd2k also keeps a public Bookmark List of this series. Once your cache is published please contact him via geocachingafinepair@gmail.com to have yours added
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