Gold Post Box For Gold Medallist Nicola Adams - Leeds, 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: WMTEFH
Location: Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 11/11/2016
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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. 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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"Nicola Adams MBE ((born 26 October 1982) is a British boxer. The first woman to win an Olympic boxing title, she is the 2012 and 2016 Olympic gold medallist in the women's flyweight division. As of 27 May 2016 she is the reigning Olympic, World, Commonwealth Games and European Games champion at flyweight.[1]
Adams represented Haringey Police Community Club at boxing. She is openly bisexual, and was named the most influential LGBT person in Britain by The Independent in 2012. She also became the first openly LGBT person to win an Olympic boxing Gold medal, after her win at the 2012 Summer Olympics."
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As well as the normal type of post box, there is a second one for franked mail and this has also been painted gold.
The plaque on this post box is as follows.
This post box has been painted
gold by Royal Mail to celebrate
Nicola Adams
Gold Medal winner
London 2012 Olympic Games
Boxing Womens' Fly Weight
The plaque also has the same text in braille.
In 2015 the Royal Mail celebrated the 50th anniversary of issuing special stamps and a plaque celebrating Nicola's appearance on a stamp after her win in the 2012 Olympics was added to the box.
These post boxes are situated on Cookridge Street outside the Henry Moor Institute.
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