An Australian man who was born in Lamlash has recreated a memento from his youth by building a replica of the Machrie postbox on his 100-acre property in Wollombi, New South Wales.
Graham Kinnear passed the Machrie postbox many times as a child on his way to see Archie and Mary Mc-Dermott, who lived in Gate Cottage on String Road.
Graham is pictured with the Machrie postbox replica in Wollombi, Australia.
Those memories have stuck with him ever since the 1940s and now, living in Australia with his Scottish-born wife, Anne, Graham was convinced that the rainforest hillside beside the house needed a reminder of Arran.
The nine-tonne postbox has been reproduced as a garden sculpture, hidden away in the mist and hills, where the greatest attempt to capture all of the detail of the original Machrie postbox has been made, including using the same Permian sandstone that was quarried locally in Wollombi, and the same stone mason’s markings are engraved on the stone.