British Postmark Database

locakart · **Posted:** Wed Feb 15, 2012 09:32:47 am

Killamarsh Sheffield

13 September 1968. Double circle handstamp

Killamarsh is a town in North East Derbyshire. It borders South Yorkshire to its north and west. Although not in Yorkshire, it is still in the Sheffield postal area and now has the postcode S21.

locakart · **Posted:** Wed Feb 15, 2012 09:47:02 am

Swallow Nest Sheffield

12 September 1968. Double circle handstamp.

Swallownest (usually spelled as a single word - but not on this postmark) is now in the civil parish of Aston cum Aughton in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham in South Yorkshire. Aston cum Aughton has a population of 13,961 according to the 2001 census.

Despite being officially in Rotherham, its postal address is in 2012: Swallownest Sheffield, South Yorkshire S26.

locakart · **Posted:** Wed Feb 15, 2012 10:30:49 am

Skipton Yorkshire

Only one of the seven postmarks here from Skipton has a stamp. The postmarks on the other six items are transit marks on the backs of envelopes sent to Skipton instead of Shipton and then forwarded on to the right address. No trouble trying to read black text on top of sepia or dark blue stamps with these then.

The setting of the town mark alters sometime between 19 December 1970 and 8 November 1971 from the examples here. This posting has the examples with "Skipton Yorkshire" in a large font.

26 September 1968. "Skipton Gateway to the Yorkshire Dales"

18 May 1970. "Remember to use the post code!"

17 December 1970. "Skipton Gateway to the Yorkshire Dales"
18 December 1970. "Skipton Gateway to the Yorkshire Dales"
19 December 1970. "Skipton Gateway to the Yorkshire Dales"
The 17 and 18 are on top of each other - the envelope must have gone round the houses back to Skipton again and then been re-forwarded.

The one with the Scottish 4d stamp was used to send a Christmas card to a non-philatelist from a non-philatelist - a remnant of a holiday in Scotland earlier in 1970?

The view on the pictorial slogans is of the gateway of Skipton Castle.

locakart · **Posted:** Wed Feb 15, 2012 10:42:59 am

Skipton Yorkshire

"Skipton Yorkshire" is now in a smaller font than the previous examples.

8 November 1971. 7 wavy lines

10 December 1971. "A Happy Christmas The Post Office"

3 February 1972. 7 wavy lines

locakart · **Posted:** Wed Feb 15, 2012 10:51:14 am

Tadcaster Yorkshire

8 July 1969. "Remember to use the postcode"

Tadcaster is a market town and civil parish in the Selby district of North Yorkshire. It is 24 km east of Leeds and 16 km west of York. It has a population of 7,280 and three (yes, 3) commercial breweries.

At the time of the postmark, it was in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Although now in North Yorkshire, it is still in the Leeds postal district and has the postcode LS24.

Tadcaster Post Office

locakart · **Posted:** Wed Feb 15, 2012 11:26:48 am

Teesside A

17 December 1970. "Please post cards in bundles"

31 August 1971. "Remember to use the post code!"

The County Borough of Teesside only existed between 1968 and 1974. It was made up of towns formerly in the North Riding of Yorkshire or in County Durham. It became part of the County of Cleveland in 1974. Cleveland was abolished in 1996 and was split into four independent unitary authorities - Hartlepool, Stockton-on-Tees, Middlesbrough and Redcar-and-Cleveland.

These two examples are from somebody living in Middlesbrough. Middlesbrough still retains the postcode TS1 from the days of Teesside.

locakart · **Posted:** Wed Feb 15, 2012 11:28:51 am

Teesside B

14 December 1971. "Remember to use the post code!"

locakart · **Posted:** Wed Feb 15, 2012 11:33:56 am

Teesside D

If there was a Teesside C, then I haven't got any postmarks for it.

17 December 1970. "Please post cards in bundles"

21 December 1970. "Action for the crippled child"

It looks like "D." with a full stop instead of just "D" in this example. BUT there is a very faint second postmark and the full stop is part of that postmark (I think

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locakart · **Posted:** Wed Feb 15, 2012 11:36:55 am

Teesside E.

This one DOES have a full stop after the "E" :!:

14 January 1970. 7 wavy lines to right

2 February 1972. 7 wavy lines transposed to left. 7 short, straight lines to right

locakart · **Posted:** Wed Feb 15, 2012 12:21:27 pm

Thirsk Yorkshire

2 January 1970. "North Riding sponsors development tel: 0609 3123"

13 July 1970. "North Riding sponsors development tel: 0609 3123"

Thirsk is a small market town and civil parish in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire. It had a population of 4,703 according to the 2001 Census. It was the home of the vet James Herriot of All Creatures Great and Small fame.

The old Post Office in Thirsk - the brick building behind the clock.

norvic · **Posted:** Wed Feb 15, 2012 21:42:11 pm

locakart wrote:

Thirsk Yorkshire
13 July 1970. "North Riding sponsors development tel: 0609 3123"

Nice use of the brilliant green 7d to pay the 1s 2d rate for recorded delivery

norvic · **Posted:** Wed Feb 15, 2012 21:45:20 pm

Royal Mail Northern Ireland Mail Centre ink jet with Postcode clearly slogan 09.01.12

Royal Mail Northern Ireland Mail Centre packet handstamp 32mm - 17 JAN 2012

Portcanna, Cardiff - self-inking counter date stamp 31 JA 12 - unusual use, and benefitting from not having the machine postmark as well!

locakart · **Posted:** Thu Feb 16, 2012 01:19:00 am

Wakefield Yorkshire A

Wakefield was the county town and seat of the West Riding County Council until 1974 and then the county town of the West Yorkshire Metropolitan Council from 1974 to 1986. It had a population of 76,886 in 2001.

3 December 1970. "Are you on the new voters lists? - Check now"

17 December 1970. 7 wavy lines

24 November 1971. "Remember to use the post code!"

17 December 1971. "A Happy Christmas The Post Office"

22 June 1973. 7 wavy lines
6 September 1973. 7 wavy lines

locakart · **Posted:** Thu Feb 16, 2012 01:23:28 am

Wakefield Yorkshire B

9 November 1970. 7 wavy lines

16 November 1971. "Remember to use the post code!"

6 June 1974. 7 wavy lines

locakart · **Posted:** Thu Feb 16, 2012 01:25:56 am

Wakefield West Yorkshire B

With "West" added to reflect the change made in 1974 from the West Riding of Yorkshire to the Metropolitan County of West Yorkshire.

3 November 1975. 7 wavy lines

locakart · **Posted:** Thu Feb 16, 2012 01:30:10 am

Wakefield Yorkshire C.

With a stop after "C". Wakefield "A" and "B" have NO stop. Wakefield "C." and "D." have a stop.

20 December 1971. "Remember to use the post code!"
3 January 1972. "Remember to use the post code!"

The lower item has two pre-decimal stamps still being used in January 1972.

locakart · **Posted:** Thu Feb 16, 2012 01:34:09 am

Wakefield Yorkshire D.

26 October 1971. 7 wavy lines

9 December 1971. "Remember to use the post code!"

12 February 1974. 7 wavy lines
6 March 1974. 7 wavy lines

locakart · **Posted:** Thu Feb 16, 2012 04:32:28 am

Wakefield Yorkshire

21 December 1970. Single circle handstamp

3 Welsh 4d stamps :?:

. They are on a re-used cover originally from Higgins & Gage of Pasadena - the postal stationery catalogue people, so it is presumably from a dealer.

22 March 1971. Single circle handstamp

locakart · **Posted:** Thu Feb 16, 2012 23:11:52 pm

Sharlston Common Wakefield. Yks

16 August 1929. Double circle handstamp

Sharlston is a village and civil parish in the City of Wakefield unitary district, situated 6.4 km east of Wakefield in West Yorkshire. It includes the settlements of Old Sharlston, Sharlston Common and New Sharlston. Its population at the 2001 census was 2,756.

Sharslton Post Office

locakart · **Posted:** Thu Feb 16, 2012 23:29:12 pm

Wetherby Yks Great Britain

3 March 1970. "Remember to use the postcode"

Wetherby is a market town and civil parish within the metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds, in West Yorkshire. It is mid-way between London and Edinburgh. It has a population of 11,155.

Wetherby Post Office. At the time of the postmark, this would have been a sub-post office.

locakart · **Posted:** Thu Feb 16, 2012 23:40:41 pm

Wetherby Yorkshire

The 1970 postmark had "Yks" at the top after "Wetherby" and "Great Britain" at the bottom.

The 1971 postmark has got rid of "Great Britain" and moved "Yorkshire" to the bottom. Why? :?:

23 March 1971. "Remember to use the postcode"
The slogan, however, has NOT altered :!:

If you're interested in telegrams, there's a rather nice one with a Wetherby mark shown at http://www.wetherbynews.co.uk/community/your-community/telegram_from_buckingham_palace_to_wetherby_council_1_4032747.

norvic · **Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 01:06:06 am

locakart wrote:

Wetherby Yorkshire

The 1970 postmark had "Yks" at the top after "Wetherby" and "Great Britain" at the bottom.

The 1971 postmark has got rid of "Great Britain" and moved "Yorkshire" to the bottom. Why? :?:

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Most towns have a die which includes GREAT BRITAIN or a variant of it. This is to use on unstamped mail which has a 'PAID' marking because it is paid in cash. It can include overseas mail so the use of Great Britain complies with UPU regulations that the country of origin must be shown on the 'stamp'. PAID marks are usually (but not always) applied in red.

locakart · **Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 01:26:17 am

norvic wrote:

locakart wrote:

Wetherby Yorkshire

The 1970 postmark had "Yks" at the top after "Wetherby" and "Great Britain" at the bottom.

The 1971 postmark has got rid of "Great Britain" and moved "Yorkshire" to the bottom. Why? :?:

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Most towns have a die which includes GREAT BRITAIN or a variant of it. This is to use on unstamped mail which has a 'PAID' marking because it is paid in cash. It can include overseas mail so the use of Great Britain complies with UPU regulations that the country of origin must be shown on the 'stamp'. PAID marks are usually (but not always) applied in red.

Thanks for the information. Postmarks get more and more interesting the more I look at them.

locakart · **Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 01:29:54 am

Wetherby Yorkshire

12 May 1971. Single circle handstamp

An interesting way to make up 20p for a registered envelope with the new-fangled decimal stamps issued only 3 months previously.

locakart · **Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 03:32:40 am

Collingham Wetherby. Yorkshire

17 December 1970. Single circle handstamp

Not very clear on the stamps, but there's a clearer postmark sealing the flap on the reverse:

Collingham is a village and civil parish 3 km south east of Wetherby in West Yorkshire. It is in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough. It had a population of 2,967 at the 2001 Census.

Collingham Post Office

locakart · **Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 03:47:37 am

Whitby Yorkshire

4 February 1972. "Whitby Yorkshire For Family Holidays Attractive Harbour Sands & Moors"

Whitby is a seaside town, port and civil parish in the Scarborough borough of North Yorkshire. It had a population of 13,594 in the 2001 Census.

Dracula made his landfall at Whitby according to Bram Stoker's novel. :twisted:

locakart · **Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 05:18:52 am

I posted a lot of York postmarks some time ago. Here are a couple of others that turned up in a different box in the loft.

19 December 1970. 7 wavy lines

2 February 1972. 7 wavy lines

locakart · **Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 05:33:25 am

And also from York:

25 March 1957. Single circle handstamp

This is a piece of social history. It is stamped on the front of a Motor Fuel Ration Book issued after the Suez Crisis of 1956. Petrol rationing was introduced on 29 November 1956 and ended on 14 May 1957.

There are coupons in a book for 30 "N" units and 15 "L" units for a six months period. There is no definition of what "N" and "L" units in the book. Some of the "N" coupons are for 3 units and some for 2 units. All of the "L" coupons are for 1 unit only. There are different numbers of coupons for the different months. All rather complicated.

All of the Month One coupons have been used - presumably for the month of April. There are only two "L" unit coupons left for Month Two, so the 2 or 3 coupon "N" units must have been used before 14 May 1957.

locakart · **Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 05:48:36 am

Alne York

20 December 1976. Double circle handstamp

Alne is a village and civil parish in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, about 19 km north-west of York. The parish had a population of 711 in the 2001 census.

Alne post office

locakart · **Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 06:05:13 am

Crayke York

13 December 1970. Single circle handstamp

Crayke is a village and civil parish in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire 23 km north of York.

Crayke Old Post Office

locakart · **Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 06:27:29 am

Cundall. York

22 July 1970. Single circle handstamp

Cundall is a hamlet in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire. It is about 20 km north west of Harrogate and 23 km north east of York.

It is one of the Thankful Villages that suffered no fatalities during the Great War of 1914 to 1918.

locakart · **Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 06:46:56 am

Haxby York

I posted a Haxby postmark previously. Here are two more.

13 August 1968. Single circle handstamp

15 December 1971. Double circle handstamp

Haxby Post Office

locakart · **Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 06:58:18 am

Kirk Hammerton York

20 August 1969. Double circle handstamp
2 examples:

Kirk Hammerton is a village and civil parish in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire. It is 16 km west of York.

Kirk Hammerton Post Office

locakart · **Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 07:06:11 am

Sheriff Hutton York

18 December 1970. Double circle handstamp

Sheriff Hutton is a village and civil parish in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire. It is about 16 km north-east of York.

locakart · **Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 07:13:59 am

Shipton-by-Beningbrough York

9 September 1971. Double circle handstamp

Shipton-by-Beningbrough is a village and civil parish in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, about 8 km north-west of York.

locakart · **Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 08:40:37 am

Two more Leeds postmarks.

Leeds D

11 November 1970. 7 wavy lines
It seems to be defective with only 5 wavy lines in the middle column

Leeds LS/WF/HG Mail Centre

14 February 2012. Inkjet cancellation

Posted yesterday :!:

On a printed commercial post card :!:

With a stamp :!:

And postmarked :!:

locakart · **Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 10:50:36 am

Moving away from Yorkshire to "the Far Side"... Lancashire

Blackpool Lancs A
"Blackpool Lancs" at the top, "A" at the bottom. Curved lines inside circle between top and bottom.

24 June 1946. 7 wavy lines
18 November 1946. 7 wavy lines

Blackpool Lancs A
"Blackpool" at the top, "Lancs. A" at the bottom. Inside lines removed.

Blackpool Lancs. B
"Blackpool Lancs." at top, "B" at bottom. No inside lines.

locakart · **Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 10:53:25 am

Cheltenham Glos

22 October 1930. 5 wavy lines

locakart · **Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 10:57:41 am

Gatwick Mail Centre

5 April 2000. "The Stamp Show 2000 http://www.royalmail.co.uk"

locakart · **Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 11:01:04 am

Southampton 4

9 November 1974. Double circle handstamp

locakart · **Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 11:10:25 am

Two from Scotland

Edinburgh

29 April 1981. Special cancellation

With the skyline of Edinburgh Castle at the top and the Heart of Midlothian at the left.

Newton Stewart

5 May 1943. Single circle handstamp

A late use of a King George V registered envelope from a town in Wigtownshire in south east Scotland.

locakart · **Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 11:13:51 am

Liverpool

Registered Exchange . L'pool

31 August 1904. Elliptical registration handstamp

locakart · **Posted:** Sat Feb 18, 2012 01:06:30 am

Leicestershire

23 September 2010. Single circle parcel mark

locakart · **Posted:** Sat Feb 18, 2012 01:26:35 am

Two official paid marks

Richmond & Twickenham Paid. Cd.
Double circle handstamp

7 January 1965

On an official envelope - the specific department is not named on the envelope front or back.

1 Official Paid (time) House of Commons SW1A 0AA and 6 wavy lines
Three part single circle, double circle and 6 wavy lines machine cancellation

On a Speaker of the House of Commons offical paid envelope:

locakart · **Posted:** Sat Feb 18, 2012 01:39:13 am

Two different marks on the same card.

London

15 November 1895. Single circle handstamp

Used 15 November 1895. Postage due 3d cachet

3d F.B. C.

These were used as transit marks on an Italian postal card sent from Firenze (Florence) to Edinburgh. The thing that looks like a stamp on the 'front' is a vignette with three heads of members of the Italian royal family. The whole design commemorates the 25th anniversary of the Liberation of Rome.

The 'stamp' to pay the postage is on the other side and has remained completely unnoticed - not even the Italian postal authorities have cancelled it :!:

It does muddy even further the definition of what is the front and what is the back of a card though. :shock:

locakart · **Posted:** Sat Feb 18, 2012 01:58:31 am

A special cancellation

London International Stamp Exhibition 1950
12.45.PM 11 May 1950. Double circle and Maltese Cross

Used to cancel this aerogramme (Huggins AP11a - the footnoted variety printed on unwatemarked paper):

locakart · **Posted:** Sat Feb 18, 2012 05:08:35 am

Another cover with two British postmarks - plus two Cypriot postmarks as well.

Registered London A 15. Hooded single circle handstamp in red
5 February 1892

Registered - 2D E Leeds. Elliptical handstamp in black
5 February 1892

These are on a copy of Cyprus registered envelope H+G C5 issued 1882.

locakart · **Posted:** Sat Feb 18, 2012 22:28:06 pm

London W.I. IC

12 August 1968. "First Day of Issue" machine cancellation

HalfpennyYellow · **Posted:** Sun Feb 19, 2012 02:29:05 am

I have never posted in this thread, so here goes...

These 2 postmarks arrived this week. I searched 'Edinburgh' and 'Jubilee' in the database but I couldn't find these ones:

KT 14 63 (or 53) JUBILEE CFC2 (13 February 2012 - from Camberley, Surrey)

EDINBURGH CFC3 (15 February 2012)

locakart · **Posted:** Sun Feb 19, 2012 05:46:06 am

Some distinctly philatelic postmarks on stamped to order postal stationery.

Brighton
1 October 1970
Centenary of British Postcard - 1870 - Brighton - 1970 - Exhibition Proud Bailey Philatelic Galleries Oct 1st

Bury St Edmunds
30 September 1972
The Postal History Society Conference

Chester
6 October 1973
Philatelic Exhibition

Doncaster
10 October 1970
Railway Philatelic Group Convention

Hull
12 May 1973
Yorkshire Philatelic Association XXVII Convention

London EC1
31 October 1973
National Postal Museum


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