Showing posts with label Wootton Courtenay. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wootton Courtenay. 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.



Sunday, 15 July 2018

Wootton Courtenay, Worle, Wraxall

Wootton Courtenay post office was originally under Dunster RSO before transferring to Taunton in 1895. From November 1909 to June 1911 it was under Dunster again before returning to Taunton.  In 1932 it transferred to Minehead. 

These two sheets have postcards from Wootton Courtenay in 1906 and 1907.  They both have Dunster squared circle cancels which could mean that they were under Dunster at that time (at least the post went via Dunster - the accounts may have been held at Taunton).

Worle was originally in the Cross Penny Post before coming under Wells in 1845.  By 1854 it came under Weston-super-Mare, becoming a town sub-office (TSO) in 1946.  The postcard below has a skeleton cancel from August 1915.

Wraxall was in the Bristol Fifth Clause post before converting to the Penny Post.  It came under Nailsea railway sub-office from 1881 to 1895.  The post office closed in 1976 (the map on the first sheet below shows a possible location for the post office).  The postcard below has a "WRAXALL" single ring cancel from 1905.

The postcard below has a "WRAXALL / BRISTOL" 'Dulwich' cancel from 1974, with a commemorative cancel below also from 1974.