The nineteenth-century English writer Anthony Trollope called Pittsburgh the blackest city he ever saw.
VOA: special.2009.07.13
The first pillar boxes were erected at St Helier in Jersey in 1852, at the recommendation of novelist AnthonyTrollope - who was an employee of the General Post Office at the time.
"Due to funding cuts, resources are now very tight and so it is more important than ever to ensure that attention is concentrated on the right areas of work, " said Anthony Trollope-Bellew, chairman of the Quantock Hills AONB partnership.