Interesting. Is the person in blue a child, or a short woman - or were pillar boxes taller in those days?

The railings probably disappeared during WWII when they were gathered up as metal for the war effort. My parents house, on the Oldpark Road, was one of the few to keep some railings because an old man lived there at the time and used the railings as his only means of support to walk to the gate. The people collecting railings took pity on him and left them.