Here are a couple of items from Radstock, starting with an undated machine cancel with "972" in a triangle. The challenge with these undated cancels is to determine the date. Because of the postmark, one cane date it to after 1st March 1968 while the abolition of special printed matter rates on 16th September 1968 narrows the date down.
The item below from September 1981 has a blue "RADFORD / BATH" cancel reminiscent of the Climax rubber cancels introduced in the 1880s and used in some offices into the early 1930s. Radford, being a larger office, was issued with steel cancels (which lasted longer) and never had a Climax rubber cancel.
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