Types of Post
There are five different forms of coal duty boundary markers in all.
- Granite obelisks, about 1.2 metres high, erected beside canals and navigable rivers.
- Cast-iron posts about 1.2 metres high. These form the majority of posts and are found beside roads — and also beside tracks and footpaths, sometimes in open countryside.
- Cast-iron boxes or plates, about 230 mm square, built into parapets of road bridges.
- Stone or cast-iron obelisks, about 4.5 metres high, found beside railways. Originally erected on previous boundaries and reused on the 1861 boundary.
- Cast-iron obelisks, about 1.75 metres high, erected on railways after 1865.
Almost all bear the City's shield or in some cases the full coat of arms. Most of the cast-iron posts are painted white, with the cross and sword of the shield picked out in red, but the stone ones are often of a sombre black, still bearing the stains accumulated on the smoky trackside. Most of the posts are Grade II listed buildings.
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