Miscellaneous Covers starting with Avonmouth, Axbridge, Banwell, Barrington ....

The next load of posts will be a miscellaneous set of covers starting with an Advice of Delivery of an Inland Registered Letter from 1965.

This next cover also comes from Avonmouth, sent registered in 1937.

Two postcards from Axbridge to South Africa in 1905 go two different Bristol 'Dulwich' transit marks, a "BRISTOL / 28" in April and a "Bristol / 16" in May, and ....

.... unused postcards showing Axbridge.

The envelope below was written and posted in Banwell in 1851 (I wonder if the positioning of the postage stamp was a message to the recipient?).

Finally a postcard from 1953 with a KGVI stamp with a clear "BARRINGTON / ILMINSTER.SOMERSET" cancel.

The Cross Penny Post - Part I

A Penny Post was established at Cross in 1827 after the establishment of a new Mail Coach from Bristol to Bridgwater.  Cross was only a tiny place but it was at a point where the new coach road crossed a minor road from Axbridge to Weston-super-Mare.

A number of the receiving houses in the Cross Penny Post are difficult to place, though the first few are quite clear.  Axbridge had the boxed "No.1" receiving house handstamp, often used in blue alongside a straight-line "AXBRIDGE" handstamp.

Places often continued to use their Penny Post receiving house handstamp as receiving marks even after the introduction of the uniform penny post and the abolition of Penny Posts.

Weston-super-Mare had the boxed "No.2" receiving house handstamp, ...

 

... and Banwell had the boxed "No.3" receiving house handstamp.

Cross Penny Post: Boxed "No.4" in c.1838

The Receiving House at Cheddar used the boxed "No.4" handstamp firstly in the Wells Penny Post from 1816 and then in the Cross Penny Post after it was established in 1827.  The undated item below went in the Cross Penny Post from Cheddar ("No.4") to Banwell (which had the boxed "No.3" handstamp).

Because the "Cross / Penny Post" is in blue/green, the piece must date from 1837-1839.

More UDCs #1 - Abbots Leigh, Banwell, Bedminster, Belvidere (Bath)

The next few posts all illustrate UDC handstamps that I have fairly recently acquired, starting with one from Abbots Leigh from October 1857.  This is currently the latest recorded example.

This UDC from Banwell from September 1848 is also the current latest recorded example.

This example of the Bedminster UDC from April 1840 is currently the earliest recorded example.

This is an example of the Belvidere UDC - Belvidere (aka Belvedere) is a region of Bath.

Crewkerne and Cross

Here is a boxed "No.4" handstamp in the Crewkerne Penny Post from 1831.  The "No.4" handstamp was in use at Haselbury.

Next are a couple of items associated with the Cross Penny Post, starting with a boxed "No.3" handstamp from 1833.  Banwell was in the Wells Penny Post from 1823, and then in the Cross Penny Post which was established in 1827, and used the boxed "No.3" handstamp in both Penny Posts.

This next cover is from Wedmore, with a large unboxed "No.7" and a "CROSS" UDC from January 1845.

Wells

Three items associated with Wells, firstly an entire from 1844 with a boxed "No.3" Receiving House handstamp which was from Banwell.

Then two examples of the "BANWELL / S O" skeleton handstamp from 1920.

And finally a postal stationary letter postmarked "P.O.W. CAMP / GREAT BRITAIN / NO.107" which was located at Wookey Hole Road, Wells.