SHAW’S very own Matt Walls – an Olympic Gold cycling champion – could be honoured with a gold post box after an appeal to Royal Mail by Shaw Liberal Democrat Councillor Hazel Gloster.
Cllr Gloster said: “Matt has done Shaw and Crompton proud.
“His achievements in cycling cannot be underestimated and we should ensure visitors to Shaw and Crompton have a visual acknowledgment to our home-grown champion.
“Painting a post box gold in a place associated with the winning Olympian, with a plaque to explain their success, was such a brilliant and popular idea when the Royal Mail did this after the 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics, yet the practice inexplicably died out.
“Public letter boxes are of course traditionally painted red and having a gold one in your high street is such a striking symbol of local Olympic success and brings pride to any town.
“My colleagues and I have written to the Royal Mail asking them to reintroduce them.”
Are there any plans to line the streets on his arrival home ? 🥇