Showing posts with label Goathurst. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Goathurst. Show all posts

Wednesday, 3 August 2022

POW Mail from Goathurst near Bridgwater, Camp 44

The undated envelope below is from Camp 44, Goathurst near Bridgwater to the Steglitz area of Berlin. 

Steglitz was in the US zone in the south-west of Berlin and the envelope has red machine cancels from the "US CIVIL CENSOR / BERLIN / PASSED".


Wednesday, 16 May 2018

Failand, Farmborough, Goathurst

The philatelic registered envelope below was posted at Failand in 1975 and has a "FAILAND / BRISTOL" single ring handstamp on the reverse and a Failand registration etiquette.  It then received an oval "REGISTERED / SHEPTON MALLET SOM." handstamp and finally the stamps on the front were cancelled at Bristol.

The postcard below was posted in Farmborough (about 8 miles west-south-west of Bath) in 1910, and shows a view of Farmborough of the period.

The postcard below is a POW card from Camp 44, Goathurst near Bridgwater, posted in 1946 ...

... and below is a philatelic registered envelope from Goathurst in 1975.  The post office closed in 2000.