Museum of Liverpool on the road
4 May to 3 December 2007 (please note that this object is no longer on display)
Hotel general manager Geir Tonnessen and Ben from Childwall with the post box
While the new Museum of Liverpool is being built, we are touring some of its fantastic collections ‘on the road’. You can now see some extraordinary and iconic items on display at unexpected venues across the city. See further details on the Museum of Liverpool on the road homepage.
Old Hall Street, Liverpool
The Post box from Fazakerley Children’s Home was on display in the reception of the Radisson SAS Hotel, Liverpool.
Accession number 1965.171.2
This child-sized post box was specially made for the children at Fazakerley Children’s Home to post their letters and cards.
The Children’s Home, or Cottage Homes as they were known, opened in 1889 and had 21 separate cottages for 584 children. On the site there were also schools, a swimming pool, farm buildings and gardens.
When the Home closed in 1964 the special post box was rescued by a member of the Post Office staff.
When a new owner was advertised for, so many requests were received from children’s homes across Merseyside that the fairest answer was to donate it to National Museums Liverpool for everyone to enjoy.
The children however were not left disappointed as replicas of the post box were made, filled with sweets and delivered to the various homes.