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Penfold Pillar Box outside 23 Hampstead High Street and junction with Gayton Street

A Grade II Listed Building in Hampstead Town, London

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.5557 / 51°33'20"N

Longitude: -0.1763 / 0°10'34"W

OS Eastings: 526528

OS Northings: 185670

OS Grid: TQ265856

Mapcode National: GBR D0.N71

Mapcode Global: VHGQR.W5N6

Plus Code: 9C3XHR4F+7F

Entry Name: Penfold Pillar Box outside 23 Hampstead High Street and junction with Gayton Street

Listing Date: 19 February 1974

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1378683

English Heritage Legacy ID: 478017

ID on this website: 101378683

Location: Hampstead, Camden, London, NW3

County: London

District: Camden

Electoral Ward/Division: Hampstead Town

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Camden

Traditional County: Middlesex

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London

Church of England Parish: Christ Church Hampstead

Church of England Diocese: London

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This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 01/06/2018

TQ2685NE
798-1/27/760

CAMDEN
HAMPSTEAD HIGH STREET (North side)
Penfold pillar box outside No.23 and junction with Gayton Street

(Formerly listed as Penfold pillar box outside No.23 HAMPSTEAD HIGH STREET )

19/02/74

GV
II
Pillar box of the Penfold type, c1866-79. Cast-iron. Hexagonal plan on moulded base. Door with initial VR and moulded frame for collection times. Royal arms above the mouth flanked by words "Post" and "Office". Hexagonal domed lid with beaded cornice and foliated dome. No longer in use.

In 1914 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 9 January 1914 smoke was seen coming from this box; when opened it was discovered that tar and oil had been poured in and set alight, badly damaging the contents. A message referring to suffragette prisoners was found, alluding to the culprits.

This list entry was amended in 2018 as part of the centenary commemorations of the 1918 Representation of the People Act.

Listing NGR: TQ2652885670

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