Showing posts with label Roadwater. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Roadwater. Show all posts

Sunday, 24 September 2023

Southampton Ship Letter, to Roadwater or to Pitney ?

There is a bit of a mystery to the postcard below which has a Southampton Ship Letter single ring cancel dated 1st November 1907.  The postcard bears a Washford squared circle cancel and a "ROADWATER / TAUNTON" postmark both dated 2nd November.  However the postcard appears to be addressed to Pitney, Langport.  Why did it go to Roadwater ?

The only answer I can come up with is that a Roadwater address has been erased (the card is written in pencil) and a new address of Pitney written in.  If so, did the post card go back in the post ?  There are no postal markings to indicate that it did.


Sunday, 12 February 2017

Alphabetic Tour M - R

Moving on to Mark Causeway, here are a single circle cancel from 1917 and a double circle one from 1947.

... Misterton, from 1909.

... Montactute, single circle cancels from 1905 and 1906 ...

... and a double circle one from 1982

... North Newton, single circle cancels from 1910 and 1915 - the apparent slight difference in sizes may just be the spread of the ink.

... and finally Roadwater, firstly single circle cancels from 1905 and 1906

... double circle cancel from 1920, under Taunton
 ... and another double circle example under Taunton from 1924

... and finally a  double circle example under Watchet from 1980.

Sunday, 27 October 2013

A few more skeletons !

Carrying on, here's a skeleton from Minehead S.O. (sub-office) - at least that is what it is supposed to be but the "S" of "SO" is missing.  Example is dated 8th April 1909, with the cancel in use from the 19th February to 11th April 1909 while Minehead swapped from a squared circle to a double circle cancel.

A skeleton from Roadwater next, dated 24th December 1909, just after the Roadwater sub-office transferred to come under Washford.  The cancel was in use between 19th November and 24th December 1909.

Shepton Mallet skeleton, example dated 12th August 1909, was in use from 17th July to 31st August 1909.

A couple of examples of a Wells skeleton, dated 26th November and 2nd December - the handstamp was in use between 17th November and 31st December 1903.

And finally a couple of examples of a Weston-super-Mare skeleton, dated 30th August and 5th September 1906.  The handstamp was in use from 27th July to 11th September 1906.