Thoughts General Post Office Marker Posts?
General Post Office (GPO) marker posts were installed from the Victorian era until 1969, when the GPO ceased to exist. The marker posts often contain the royal cypher of the reigning of the time on them (like the post-boxes do) and were used to denote location of telegraph cables (for sending telegrams) and thus are no longer in use as people no longer send telegrams.
Starting with the reign of King George Ⅴ, the original cast iron GPO marker posts were replaced with a new concrete design. Thus, if you find a cast Iron GPO marker post, you know you have one which most likely over one-hundred years old. Such markers appear to be rarer than post-boxes, especially because many have been lost to the ravages of time.
Queen Victoria (VR) GPO marker post example:
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A cast iron one with a good write up I would view favourably. The generic common concrete ones are an instant 1* for me, especially as lots are still in use
Thanks!
As an update to this, I managed to find a couple (about a KM or two from each other). There were a few more I found in different places, but they were all within 20m of another Wayspot. I always like to check before nominating things so that I don't waste my nominations on thing which are not going to appear in the Niantic game(s) I play.
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P.S. I did correct the sentence where it says "of the reigning of the time" and changed it to simply "of the reigning monarch".
I reject these.
Britain is already full of generic street furniture because wayfarers have corrupted the meaning of historic to just mean old. London recently had 3 stinkpipes as "featured wayspots", just embarrassing. If they're historic structures, they'll be listed.
I think there's an issue of semantics here. If Wayfarers were accepting random trees and rocks then I'd agree the term "historic" has been corrupted to just mean "old". These marker posts belong to history; at one point they were important and are no obsolete.
Something like these marker posts, really are not as common as some people would have us believe. Indeed, many have been removed in the hundred or so years since they were erected. At most, one can find one or two items of street furniture per s14 cell, and most s14 cells don't contain any street furniture. Compare the street furniture of the British Isles to other countries and you'll see that British Wayfarers are really not that bad. As an example: