Art / Sea Mills
Bristol post box gets the royal treatment
A post box is raising smiles after receiving a royal topper in commemoration of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
The knitted creation, featuring a crown flanked by a guardsman and a beefeater, has appeared outside the Sea Mills Post Office.
Numerous people have taken to social media to ask who is behind the mystery street art in Shirehampton Road
Bristol24/7 can exclusively reveal that the skillful knitter is local resident Judy McIntosh.
Judy volunteers locally and is well-known as the lady who opens and closes the Sea Mills Mini Museum every morning and evening.
The retiree says it took her a month to make the wooly post box topper and that the crown is adapted from a pattern for a tea cosy.
Judy with her post box topper in Shirehampton Road – photo: Mary Milton
Mary Milton is reporting on Sea Mills as part of Bristol24/7’s community reporter scheme, a project which aims to tell stories from areas of Bristol traditionally under-served by the mainstream media
Main photo: Mary Milton
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