"I noticed the painted outline of a postbox... It turns out it had been vandalised, set alight and chucked in a skip. I asked the station manager if I could see it and he jokingly said: Give me 20 quid and you can take it away with you."
"Now, I've got postboxes from all over the place, which I keep in my postal museum on the Isle of Wight. With 260, it's one of the biggest collections in this country."
"One of the standouts looks like a giant tin of baked beans. It came from the old Heinz factory in Park Royal, London: they had their own post office and postbox branded with the Heinz logo."
"I've since travelled thousands of miles to collect them. Before I retired, I used to travel around the country for my job as an electrician, occasionally photographing postboxes along the way."
The collection of postboxes began in 1994 after discovering a vandalized postbox at Rhyl station. The collector now owns 260 postboxes from various locations, including Scotland, Cornwall, Ireland, and Hong Kong. Notable items include a postbox resembling a tin of baked beans from the Heinz factory in London. The collection grew through interactions with visitors and local postal workers, as well as travels for work as an electrician, leading to the acquisition of many unique postboxes from across the country.
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