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Painting a post box

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Painting a post box

 

Photograph of a female worker painting pillar boxes at Carron Works near Falkirk. The Carron Company was an ironworks established in 1759, and it was there that the iron railings in the Adam Dome, General Register House, were created. Photograph by Bill Miller

Painting a post box

Credit: Crown copyright, NRS, GD58/21/2/28 (Link to the Online Catalogue entry)