Some Somerset "I"s and "K"s - Ilchester, Ilton, Kingsbury, Kingston St Mary

A couple of Somerset I"s starting with an "ILCHESTER" single ring cancel from August 1929, ....

... and a couple of registered envelopes from Ilton under Ilminster in 1947 and 1956.

Moving on to a couple of "K"s, here's a registered envelope from Kingsbury Episcopi in February 1940.  The "Episcopi" part of the village's name means "of the Bishop" in Latin.  It refers to the fact that the village belonged to the Bishop of Bath and Wells and not the nearby abbey at Muchelney.

The registered envelope below is from Kingston St Mary, near Taunton, sent in June 1922.  The first part of the village name comes from the kings settlement having belonged to the kings of the West Saxons before being ceded to the Bishop of Winchester as part of the manor of Taunton Deane, with the church's dedication being added in the 20th century.

Some Climax rubber cancels from post offices under Ilminster

A few more sheets of Climax rubber cancels, this time from some of the post offices under Ilminster.  The first sheet has examples of two of the three cancels issued to Ashill.

 Next come a couple of sheets of cancels from Barrington.  Barrington has four types of cancel, the first of which is recorded as a proof but not yet recorded in use.

Horton had seven Climax rubber cancels (again, the first was recorded as a proof but hasn't been recorded in use).  The sheet below has examples of the last recorded in use, from 1921.

Ilton has three cancels recorded (again the first was proofed but not yet recorded in use).  Below is an example of the second cancel used, from 1912 - there are two examples below but the second is not dateable - and examples of the third type.

Finally here is an example of the second cancel for Stocklinch, unfortunately not completely dateable as the final digit of the year is not completely readable (0 or maybe 6 perhaps).

Airgraphs

Airgraphs were letters that had been photographically reduced to be sent by air (at reduced wight and space) and then printed at the other end.  They were employed during WW II, initially for forces in the Middle East.

This first example is an Airgraph sent in June 1943 to Ilton ...

... while the second example is an Airgraph that was sent from Wellington in july 1944.

Alphabetic Tour H - L

Next on the Tour is Hambridge, from 1906.

... Hardington Mandeville, from 1917.

... Ilton from 1931.

... Kingsbury Episcopi, from 1905 and 1926.

... Kingston St. Mary, from 1981.  I have previously shown UDCs from Kingston, before it became Kingston St. Mary in 1952.

... Luccombe, from 1980.

... and Luxborough, also from 1980