Showing posts with label Winscombe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Winscombe. Show all posts

Wednesday, 14 May 2025

Yet more Registered envelopes - Radstock, Rowbarton, Stoke St Michael, Stratton on the Fosse, Winscombe

Yet more Registered envelopes, starting with one from Radstock to Wellington in August 1912 with a large unattributed registration etiquette with a violet "RADSTOCK" handstamp.

Next is a registered envelope from Rowbarton, Taunton to London in December 1939 with a "TAUNTON 1" registration etiquette.

Back to registered letters to the Rating Officer, Shepton Mallet, this one is from Stoke St Michael in July 1940 ....
.... and another from Stratton on the Fosse in January 1938.
Finally a registered envelope from Winscombe to Bridgwater in September 1918.


 

Wednesday, 11 July 2018

Winford, Woodborough, Winscombe, Star (Winscombe)

Winford post office came under Bristol apart from a period between 1860 and 1895 when it came under Flax Bourton RSO.   The two items below have "WINFORD / BRISTOL" double circle double-arc ('Dulwich') cancels, from 1965 and 1974. 

Woodborough was originally under Weston-super-Mare before becoming a Railway Sub-Office in 1873.  It was replaced by 'Winscombe RSO' in June 1895.  The item below has a "WOODBOROUGH / SOM." single ring cancel from April 1895, just before the post office was replaced.
 

Winscombe was a Railway Sub-Office from 1895, taking over from Woodborough, and then became an independant Sub Office or Post Town in 1905.  The item below has a "WINSCOMBE / +" double circle double-arc cancel from 1900.

The items below have "WINSCOMBE / SOMERSET" 'Dulwich' cancels from 1931 and 1967.

Two commemorative cancels have featured Star, Winscombe (Star is a mile ENE of Winscombe) in 1986 and 1996.