Showing posts with label Stoke St Gregory. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stoke St Gregory. Show all posts

Sunday, 10 December 2023

Nether Stowey (1905), Stoke St Gregory (1909), Wincanton (1913) and Wootton Courtenay (1913)

I'm working through some recent acquisitions, so in date order here's a cover from Nether Stowey to Bishop's Hull in September 1905, redirected to Cardiff.

This postcard from Stoke St Gregory to North Curry in December 1909 is answering a query about local thatchers.

Here is a registered envelope from Wincanton to New Jersey in August 1913, going via Bath railway station to Southampton before being received in New York.

Finally here is a 1913 Christmas postcard going from Wootton Courtenay to Lydeard St Lawrence.  Postmarked on Christmas Eve, it might have been delivered the same day.



Wednesday, 27 June 2018

Stoke St Gregory, Stoke-under-Ham -> Stoke-sub-Hamdon

Stoke St Gregory post office was under Taunton - the envelope below has a partial "STOKE ST. GREGORY / TAUNTON.SOM" 'Dulwich' double circle double-arc cancel from 1973.

Stoke-under-Ham was originally 'Stoke' though by 1855 it was referred to as Stoke-under-Ham.  In 1957 it was renamed 'Stoke-sub-Hamdon'.  These first covers have "STOKE-UNDER-HAM / J19" 3-bar vertical oval duplex cancels (3VOD) from 1904, 1906 and 1907.

The next covers are from after it was renamed Stoke-sub-Hamdon and have double circle double thin arc 'Birmingham' cancels from 1958, 1964 and sometime between 1968 and 1971.