Charles l made a postal service available to the public - the recipient paying the postage! The postal service evolved through a network of mail coaches, uniformed postmen (1793), mail trains, money orders (1838) and the uniform penny post in 1840.
Designed in 1935 to commemorate the silver jubilee of King George V the K6 was the first red telephone kiosk to be used extensively outside of London. replacing most of the existing kiosks and establishing thousands of new sites. It has become a British icon, although it was not universally loved at the start. The red colour caused particular local difficulties and there were many requests for less visible colours. The red that is now much loved was then anything but, and the Post Office was forced into allowing a less strident grey with red glazing bars scheme for areas of natural and architectural beauty. Ironically, some of these areas that have preserved their telephone boxes have now painted them red.
At the stated coordinates you need to find an eleven digit number. Assume A is the first numberthrough to K being the 11th number
The cache can be found H(D+G)K feet away from the stated coordinates on a bearing of BC.(C+J) degrees
The A Fine Pair series is managed by mattd2k
If anybody would like to place 'A Fine Pair' of their own please do. I would just ask that you first visit www.afinepair.co.uk to request a number to avoid any duplication.
mattd2k also keeps a public Bookmark List of this series. Once your cache is published please contact him via the A Fine Pair website at www.afinepair.co.uk to have yours added.
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One of the conditions for a cache to be included in the ' A Fine Pair' series is that the postbox and the telephone kiosk must be equal to or less that 100 feet apart. The distance between the K6 telephone box and the postbox in is greater than 100 feet and this is why it is not an official 'A Fine Pair' cache