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Latitude: 51.5514 / 51°33'5"N
Longitude: -0.098 / 0°5'52"W
OS Eastings: 531965
OS Northings: 185331
OS Grid: TQ319853
Mapcode National: GBR GJ.XLZ
Mapcode Global: VHGQT.880H
Plus Code: 9C3XHW22+HQ
Entry Name: Pillar Box on Aberdeen Park by junction with Highbury Grove
Listing Date: 3 May 1978
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1298138
English Heritage Legacy ID: 368489
ID on this website: 101298138
Location: Highbury, Islington, London, N5
County: London
District: Islington
Electoral Ward/Division: Highbury East
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Islington
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: Christ Church Highbury Grove
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Pillar box
This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 01/06/2018
TQ3185SE
635-1/38/3
ISLINGTON
ABERDEEN PARK (North side)
Pillar box by junction with Highbury Grove
03/05/78
II
Pillar box. 1866-76, to the design of JW Penfold. Cast iron. Hexagonal pillar box on a high plinth with a ball cornice and raised ogee top with leaf pattern; crowning finial missing.
In 1913 the pillar box was damaged by militant suffragettes from the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), the group founded by Emmeline Pankhurst in 1903 which used direct actions in its campaign for votes for women. In November 1911 Emily Wilding Davison became the first suffragette to attempt to set fire to a pillar box, and over the next three years suffragettes attacked pillar boxes throughout Britain using paraffin-soaked rags, corrosive liquids, ink and incendiary bombs, in order to destroy the mail inside. Attacks were often carried out at night and the perpetrators were rarely caught. On 30 January 1913 a postman discovered this box in flames; most of the contents were destroyed.
This list entry was amended in 2018 as part of the centenary commemorations of the 1918 Representation of the People Act.
Listing NGR: TQ3196585330
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