Gold Post Box For Gold Medallist Hanna Cockroft - Halifax, UK
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This is one of a number of post boxes that have been painted gold to celebrate British gold medal winners at the 2012 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Paralympics.
Waymark Code: WMTP6H
Location: Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 12/21/2016
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"To commemorate British gold medal winners at the 2012 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Paralympics, postal companies including Royal Mail painted a number of post boxes gold. Each gold medallist had a post box painted in recognition of their achievement, usually in their home-town. It marked the first occasion in modern times that the colour of post boxes in the United Kingdom had been changed from their traditional red.[1] The project was launched on 24 July by painting the pillar box at Westminster Abbey, whilst the first athletes' boxes to be painted were in Lossiemouth, Moray, Scotland, and Penzance, Cornwall, England to commemorate the victory by Heather Stanning and Helen Glover in the women's coxless pair rowing. In addition to the post boxes a first class stamp depicting each medal winning individual or team was produced. On 2 November 2012 it was announced that the gold postboxes would retain their new colour permanently and would be marked with their associated athlete on a plaque."
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"Hannah Lucy Cockroft[5] MBE (born 30 July 1992) is a British wheelchair racer specialising in sprint distances in the T34 classification. She holds the Paralympic and world records for the 100 metres, 200 metres and 400 metres in her classification. Competing for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Paralympics, she won two gold medals.
Cockroft was born on 30 July 1992 in Halifax, West Yorkshire with cerebral palsy. She suffered two cardiac arrests at birth that damaged two different parts of her brain. She was left with a disability that affected her balance and mobility, problems with her fine motor skills, weak hips and deformed feet and legs. Her parents were told that she would never be able to walk, talk, do anything for herself or live past her teenage years."
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The plaque on this post box is as follows.
This post box has been painted
gold by Royal Mail to celebrate
Hannah Cockroft
Gold Medal winner
London 2012 Paralympic Games
Athletics: Track - Women's 100m T34
The plaque also has the same text in braille.
The post box is situated next to the entrance of Halifax town hall.
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