Showing posts with label Combe Down. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Combe Down. Show all posts

Sunday, 11 April 2021

Blue "No.10" in the Bath Penny Post, 1836

 The entire below was sent from "Combe Down near Bath" to Stafford in November 1836, and received a blue "No.10" receivin house handstamp.  The "No.10" receiving house handstamp is known in use at Widcombe, about a mile north of Combe Down, from 1829, and was previously only known used in blue in 1844.



Wednesday, 23 November 2016

Offices under Bath - Chewton-Mendip, Combe Down, Hinton Charterhouse

Staying with Bath, here are some marks from rural offices under Bath starting with Chewton Mendip from June 1890 ...

... a single ring cancel from Combe-Down from June 1914 ...

... and two postcards from Hinton Charterhouse, Bath from 1905 and 1906.