Miscellany on PO receipts from 1970s

 Here are a miscellany of marks on green Post Office receipts from the 1970s, from Croscombe, Easton (Wells), Meare, Mells, Walton, Wedmore, Westbury-sib-Mendip, Westhay and Windmill Hill (Glastonbury).  

Modern postmarks from village or Town sub-offices are difficult to find as there are few occasions when a local post office will cancel or handstamp things.

Alphabetical Tour - C

Continuing the alphabetic tour of recent acquisitions, the letter C starts with Castle Cary.  First here is a "CASTLE CARY R.S.O. / SOMERSET" cancel from 1907, after the RSO terminology stopped being used by the Post Office in 1905.

I already showed this next item a few weeks ago but I thought it worth repeating in the light of the item above - a "CASTLE CARY   S.O. / SOMERSET" from 1921, after Castle Cary stopped being a S.O. and had come back under Bath in 1920.

This item has a "MOBILE POST OFFICE No. 3" cancel from August 1962 - the Mobile Post Office was at the Chard Agricultural Show.  Note that the Registration Etiquette was blank, being made up by the same Mobile Post Office cancel.

... Combe Florey, first a single ring cancel from 1928

... then a "COMBE FLOREY / TAUNTON SOMERSET" double circle cancel from 1980.

... Corfe from 1905 and 1979

... Crewkerne from 1847 & 1848, with nice examples of the double arc handstamp in blue

... and finally Croscombe from 1911.