Another of Glasgow's Edward VIII pillar boxes. This one is on Crown Terrace in the West End. Twenty six such boxes were installed in the city during the 326 days Edward VIII was on the throne, which one source claims was more than anywhere else, but I'm not convinced this is actually correct. As far as I can track down, six of these 26 remain in place today.
A rare Edward VIII post box on Great George Street in the West End of Glasgow. Each British post box bears the insignia of the monarch who was on the throne when it was made. Edward VIII had only been king for 325 days before he abdicated in December 1936, so very few post boxes were made with his cipher on it. Out of a total of 15,500 post boxes in the UK, there are only 171 Edward VIII ones, and six of them, including this one, are in Glasgow.
A K Type post box on Maryhill Road in Glasgow. Designed by Tony Gibbs and introduced in 1980, they were meant to be the 'post box of the future'. They didn't prove popular and by 1990, the Royal Mail had re-introduced the previous cylindrial version as an alternative. The last K type box was produced in 2001.
This was not the first failed attempt to update the humble post box. The rectangular F Type was introduced in 1968, but only lasted until 1974, when it was replaced by another rectangular one, the G Type. This proved just as unpopular and was soon phased out in favour of, you guessed it, traditional cylindical ones!
A rather unusual square post box on Minard Drive on the Southside of Glasgow. This is a G-Type postbox. Made of cast iron, it was introduced in 1974 and was based on the short-lived steel-plate F-Type developed in the late 1960s. Just as unpopular as the F-Type, the G-Type was similarly short-lived and was itself replaced with the traditional oval-shaped K-Type in 1980. This is the first G-Type postbox I've come across on the streets of Glasgow.