Three pages from the 1980s and 1990s, firstly of "BATH / AVON" cancel, then "BATH" (no county) at the top, and finally "BATH" (no county) at the bottom. The cancels are noticeably getting less and less legible - is this anything to do with the move towards the transfer of duties to Consignia, a public limited company wholly owned by the UK government, set up in November 2001
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It's also haphazard in the cancels I have got whether the time is shown on the cancel or not.
I've labelled the cancels above as "Rubber Cancels" - this is probably incorrect but was based on the general illegibility and blurring, similar to that shown on earlier rubber cancels.
The County of Avon was dissolved on 1st April 1996 (was it deliberate to set it up and dissolve it on April Fools Day ?) and Bath became part of the Bath and North-East Somerset Authority.
The cancels ceased to show a County, being either at the top or at the bottom of the cancels.
Probably not applicable to all your items, and I am not sure when the practice started but second class mail does not normally show a time -only a date.
ReplyDeleteAh yes, that's probably the reason - I'll have to work out which ones were second class post.
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