To celebrate the gold medal wins of Helen Glover and Heather Stanning in the women’s pairs rowing, and Bradley Wiggins in the cycling road men’s time trial, we have painted the first of our postboxes gold.
A postbox in Penzance, Cornwall where Helen is from, Heather’s home town of Lossiemouth, Moray and Chorley in Lancashire where Wiggins lives, have all been painted gold this morning.
Managing director of stamps and collectibles, Andrew Hammond, presents the two clips of our gold medal winning heroes’ stamps coming off the presses.
The first clip shows Helen Glover and Heather Stanning’s stamp being printed after their success in the Olympic Women’s Pairs rowing final.
Bradley Wiggins has paid tribute to our gold medal stamps after they played a starring role on the BBC’s Olympic coverage.
Gary Lineker brought out enlargements of both of our gold medal stamps during the BBC1 Olympics coverage.
This was during interviews with both Helen Glover and Heather Stanning, after their triumphant success in the Olympic Women’s Pairs rowing final, and then Bradley Wiggins after his triumph in the men’s cycling individual time trial final.
Bradley Wiggins has pedalled his way to gold in the men’s individual cycling time trial - and here's how he's been immortalised on one of our special gold medal stamps.
