Olympic paint job for Herefordshire phone box (From Hereford Times)
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Olympic paint job for phone box near Weobley, Herefordshire
8:30am Friday 10th August 2012 in News
Picture by Mark Rogers
WHILE Royal Mail paints post boxes gold to celebrate Great Britain’s Olympic success, a mystery decorator has added a splash of red, white and blue to a phone box in Herefordshire.
A Union flag has been painted on top of the kiosk between Ledgemoor and Weobley Marsh.
This picture of the patriotic paint job was sent in by Mark Rogers, 44, who said: “Well done to the mystery decorator.
It’s a great improvement over its faded, former appearance.”
Comments(18)
Biomech
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1:50pm Sat 11 Aug 12
... I'm sorry... what?
hfdbob
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9:26pm Sun 12 Aug 12
Interested Onlooker
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10:10am Mon 13 Aug 12
Biomech wrote:Where've you been the last fortnight? As well as the commemorative stamps featuring photos of each and every GB gold medal winner (two in the case of Mo Farah, one for each distance) Royal Mail has painted a post box gold in each of their home towns.
"WHILE Royal Mail paints post boxes gold to celebrate Great Britain’s Olympic success" ... I'm sorry... what?
Biomech
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11:42am Mon 13 Aug 12
Well, if it's just in the home towns that's not quite so bad. But considering the Royal Mail spend 90% of their time complaining about loosing money, increasing prices, firing people and talking about possibly shutting down, I don't think they should be painting too many boxes.
old)cheltonian
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12:40pm Mon 13 Aug 12
Biomech wrote:Every town should advertise the fact that they have a gold medal Olympian. If the PO want to do their bit for that, then good on them.
The Olympics doesn't particularly interest me.
Well, if it's just in the home towns that's not quite so bad. But considering the Royal Mail spend 90% of their time complaining about loosing money, increasing prices, firing people and talking about possibly shutting down, I don't think they should be painting too many boxes.
They painted 29 boxes gold, that's not too many! How about celebrating the fact that our athletes did well, a smudge of national pride never hurt any country.
Royal Mail's problem is that we don't send letters, not the fact that they don't do a good job of painting postboxes.
Biomech
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12:51pm Mon 13 Aug 12
I have no problem with painting 29 boxes - this wasn't made clear in the article, but my point remains; that a business that constantly complains about how much it's failing should be careful about what it spends it's money on.
Lord Smythe
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8:33pm Mon 13 Aug 12
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ArmadilloSackRace
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10:43am Tue 14 Aug 12
Biomech
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11:37am Tue 14 Aug 12
And yet, it looks significantly better than the **** they scribble on the development boards around town in the name of "local art".
ArmadilloSackRace
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2:15pm Tue 14 Aug 12
Biomech
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2:39pm Tue 14 Aug 12
I have no problem with art or murals, but what I see around the town is nothing but awful scribbling. It makes the town look like a derelict part of Liverpool.
ArmadilloSackRace
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8:21am Wed 15 Aug 12
hfdbob
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10:22am Wed 15 Aug 12
Biomech
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2:20pm Wed 15 Aug 12
It seems they don't vet the "art", they just give kids crayons and tell them to go nuts.
Interested Onlooker
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3:14pm Wed 15 Aug 12
Biomech
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3:37pm Wed 15 Aug 12
ArmadilloSackRace
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11:45am Thu 16 Aug 12
hfdbob wrote:Come back when you have a clue what we're talking about and I may take on board any relevant points that you have
ArmadilloSackRace-- Biotech is right. THE scrawling on Herefords walls, subways etc is horrible. IT makes the place look like an inner city slum. It costs the council thousands of pounds to remove too. I'm sure you would disapprove if you found it on your wall or garage door.
silentbull says...
6:51am Sat 11 Aug 12
now wait for a jobsworth to get it removed just because he/she thinks its Racist!!!!