Continuing ... Bruton, Buckland St Mary, Burnham-on-Sea, Clevedon - and Combe Sydenham

The entire below dated December 1774 has a very clear "BRUTON" handstamp, at the start of its known usage.

The "BRUTON / 142" boxed mileage mark on this entire dated 1808 is much less clear, being towards the end of its known usage from 1802 to 1809.

A Certificate of Posting from Buckland St Mary in 1992 is probably one of the few ways to get a local postmark.

The novelty card below, from Burnham-on-Sea in 1925 was charged postage due as it was treated as a Letter because there was more than the sender's name and address on it.

The envelope below went as Printed Matter and received a "170" triangle machine cancel.  The slogan cancel was in use from 26th October to 1st November 1961 and 1st to 28th November 1962, and there is a pencil annotation on the reverse of "11/62" which matches the second period of usage.

And finally a picture illustrating Combe Sydenham, Somersetshire in 1765.  Combe Sydenham did not have a post office.

Clevedon Telegraph Form, 1894 and Postcard 1904

The unused Telegraph form below has a Queen Victoria 6d embossed stamp and a "THE TRIANGLE / CLEVEDON" handstamp dated 2nd August 1894.

The QV 6d embossed stamp is similar to the 1854 6d embossed postage stamp but has small circular marks towards the base.  The back of the form details what the 6d charge includes.

The Postcard below was sent from Clevedon to Clifton in 1904 - the postcard was written at 2:30 with the sender indicating that they would be home about 10pm and presumably expected that the postcard would be delivered before then.  With that kind of delivery why would one send a Telegram ?

Cadbury Representative hopes to call ....

The commercial printed matter postcard below was sent from Clevedon to the Bristol Tramway Co. Ltd., Beach Road, Weston-super-Mare on 12th February 1954 saying that their representative hopes to call on Thursday 18th February. 

On the reverse are a list of the items available, a number of which are still favourites today.

Cheddar, Clevedon, Cocklake registered envelopes

Here are a trio of registered covers, this first one being from Cheddar in March 1921.

This next registered envelope from Clevedon in October 1978 has also paid for Special Delivery.

The final registered letter is from Cocklake in July 1945.

Barred Numeral Cancels - Clevedon

Clevedon was in the Bristol Penny Post from 1826, with a second office opening in 1831 - at which time the offices were called Upper and Lower Clevedon.

Upper Clevedon was given post office number 017 in 1853 while Lower Clevedon was gived post office number 020.

At the end of 1860 Lower Clevedon was closed and Upper Clevedon was renamed Clevedon, becoming a Post Town.

Clevedon was issued with duplex cancels as well as horizontal ovals, as shown in this next sheet.

Here are some examples of the 4-bar vertical oval duplex cancel.

 

And here are examples of the 3-bar vertical oval duplex.

Later usage had the time in clear in the town die, rather than as a time code.

This final example from 1912 does not have a code in the town die.

Halloween tomorrow - Skeletons !

Final batch of skeletons, starting with one from Dorset.  Beaminster in Dorset was in the Crewkerne Penny Post.  The skeleton below is dated 9th July 1906 in manuscript - the year slug in the skeleton appears to be missing.

Some later examples from the 1920s - firstly one from Street dated 17th August 1921, and is known used from 25th July 1921 to the example below.

Two examples from Clevedon dated 10th and 12th September 1924.  The cancel is known used between 11th August and 24th September 1924.

And finally an example from 1975 - a philatelic registered envelope from Hatch Beauchamp dated 14th January 1975.  The cancel is known used between 31st December 1974 and 4th March 1975.  The example below is missing some letters from the cancels.

Yet more early serif UDCs - Upper Clevedon, Pensford, Pilton, Curry-Rival, ...

Upper Clevedon's UDC was registered on 9th May 1843 and is known used from June 1843 to September 1850 in black, with a single example in yellow known from 1851.  The example below in black is relatively late usage from April 1850.

Pensford's UDC was not registered in the Steel Impression Book, but is known used from July 1843 to August 1850.  The two examples below are from January 1844 and July 1850.

Pilton's UDC was registered in the SIB on 3rd January 1844 and is known used from 1845 to August 1855.  the example below is from January 1852.

Curry-Rival's UDC was registered on 7th February 1844 and is known used in black from 1848 to February 1857 and in blue from August 1851 to January 1858.  The example in blue below is from June 1852.

The Somerset Coast ... down to Clevedon

Following on from Portishead, this set of cards depict the coast down to the Green Beach, south of Clevedon.