QE II Slogans continued ... Happy New Year !

Finally, to bring the year to an end, here are the last Bath National slogan cancels I have before the introduction of decimal postage.  The first cancel "Remember to use the Postcode" was very early, being in 1968, the first postcodes being issued in Norwich.  It wasn't until 1971 that postcodes were put into general use and people started to get informed of what their postcode was.

These are also the first two National slogan cancels I've shown that are in transformed format - the town cancel is over the stamp while the slogan is in the middle of the envelope.  Local publicity slogans had been in the Transposed position since 1963 (more on this next year !).

QE II Slogans continued ... Charities

From 1959 Charity appeals appear as slogan cancels.
This first one, for World Refugee Year was rapidly withdrawn - if the stamp was (in-)correctly placed one got an unfortunate image of the Queen with her hand to her face.

QE II Slogans continued ... Post Office advertising its Services

Here are a series of slogan cancels advertising Post Office services.

QE II Slogans continued ... Civil Defence

Up until 1957 a text-only slogan was used, albeit in slightly different forms.  From 1958 a pictorial slogan was used.

For future reference, note how crisp and readable the slogan cancels are !

QE II Slogans continued ... Christmas

To begin with the same Christmas Slogan cancel was used, but in 1960 a new pictorial cancel was introduced.

QE II Slogans continued ...

A couple of campaigns firstly to get people to use the correct address (this was before the introduction of the Post Code which happened after october 1965.  The second sheet is trying to get people to buy stamps in booklets.

National Slogans - Queen Elizabeth II

In the early part of Queen Elizabeth's reign, the use of slogan cancellations continued as before - for national campaigns, postal matters, and for national exhibitions.
Here is a long running campaign to get people to register for the voter's list, followed by a shorter-term one to get people to use the correct postage to Europe after the postal rates had gone up.

Wedding and Coronation

The wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh in 1947 was an occasion of national and worldwide interest, commemorated by a country-wide slogan cancel.

This was followed in June 1953 by the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, after the death of her father, King George VI on 6th February 1952.