Somerset & Bristol Postal History

Here are a number of Registered items, arranged alphabetically starting with Barrington under Ilminster in 1947. 

Next, alphabetically in my pile of registered items, is Batcombe under Bath in 1939.

Berrow Corner came under Highbridge.  The envelope below is dated 1958.  Berrow Corner post office was replaced by Brent Corner in 1965.

Another registered item for The Rating Officer, Shepton Mallet, this time from Ditcheat in 1940.

Again, a registered letter to the Rating Officer, Shepton Mallet, this time an uprated registered envelope from Emborough under Bath in 1940, rather than a printed envelope.

Carrying on, here are a few sheets for Backwell under Bristol, which replaced the 'West Town' post office which was half-a-mile to its west in 1951.  The first cover is from July 1951 and has "BACKWELL / BRISTOL" skeleton cancels and is still using West Town registration etiquettes.

In this cover from 1974, two different handstamps from Backwell are in evidence.

By the late 1990s Backwell was using self-inking datestamps (SIDs).

The cover below was posted in Batcombe in 1906.  The sender has put the correct one penny postage on the postcard, as because it has glitter on the front it would be classed as a letter.

 The postcard below was sent from Bishop's Hull by T.W. Cowan in 1907.  He was known as the father of British bee-keeping.