G.B Postal Towns
by John A. McCulloch

Have you ever wondered about which town a partial C.D.S. came from?
For the Victorian Period of Great Britain ... here's a chance to find out.
I know there are more towns which weren't on the lists available to me.
So ... If you find a town that is missing, please send me an email and .jpg
of the cancel.

Many town names or spelling variants have been added from J. H. Daniel's
1898 work. Some may be typographs -or- an earlier spelling used.
This book made no distinction between continuous and upper/lower placements, thus sometimes the "+" may not represent a lower placement, but a larger space and continuation. This is especially true of London District postmarks.

March 2004

		Enter whatever letters you find in the stamp's cancellation. Do use any spaces shown in the chop. Use a single space for ". " or " , " or " - " DO use any apostrophe "'" Put " + " between Upper/Lower Names (space-plus-space) Search for:		Results:

Many thanks to those who have added a Post Town name or two to this list,
but especially to Ian Gibbons of the Mulready Group,
who in addition to contributing hundreds of additions,
has extracted many an unclear impression's true identity
and verified the existence of the Post Office in question.

You might have noted that the town cancels are of the Squared Circle Type. Three are the earliest usages known for that cancel and one is the latest. Earlier or later dates may yet be found. These are a fascinating study in themselves, one of the reasons this search progam was written.

The 'bible' for GB Squared Circles is Stanley Cohen's work,
Collecting British Squared Circle Postmarks.

For more information on collecting these obliterators, visit Tim Burgess' page.

11/17/2007

G.B Postal Towns by John A. McCulloch

G.B Postal Towns
by John A. McCulloch