{On a brass plaque attached to the box:}
This post box has been painted gold by Royal Mail to celebrate Sophie Hosking, Gold Medal winner, London 2012 Olympic Games, Rowing: Lightweight - Women's Double Sculls.
{Followed by Braille text saying the same.}
SW20, Worple Road
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Sophie Hoskins gold post box
See also 2012 Paralympics. The first event was held on 25 July in Cardiff but...
Sophie Hannah Marguerite Hosking and Katherine Sarah Copeland (b.1990) won th...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Sophie Hoskins gold post box
Before the 2012 Olympics started the Royal Mail committed to turn a red post ...
September 2013: Our colleague Jamie Davis tells us that the plaque was stolen, presumably for its scrap value.
Our picture of the post-crash scene comes from the Evening Standard.
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As our detail picture we have this most unlikely-looking crocodile, grinning manically despite his legs looking all wrong.
This inscription fails to name the person(s) who erected this substantial memorial, nor does it name the dedicatees. The British Newspap...
English Heritage Arthur Waley, 1889 - 1966, poet, translator and orientalist, lived and died here.
Sometime 2011-17 the rather nice yellow plaque was replaced with the bronze rectangle which doesn't look new nor designed for an exterior...
The dates given on the plaque are about the time that the church ceased functioning and was demolished but we can't explain the exact dates.
The plaque doesn't mention Fruiterers Passage but we believe the unveiling of the plaque coincided with the Passage being opened by the L...
The line was constructed by the Great Eastern Railway with a temporary terminus at Noel Park and Wood Green before being opened to Palace Gates. A connection to Bowes Park on the Hertford Loop Line...
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