GB cancellation ID

? esbrough.
GB
looking for any explanation on this cancellation please.
Possible useage?

http://cjoint.com/data/ftornWRiN5.htm

Thanks

rodney wrote:
? esbrough.
GB
looking for any explanation on this cancellation please.
Possible useage?

http://cjoint.com/data/ftornWRiN5.htm

I don't know anything about the style of postmark, but
Middlesbrough comes to mind - don't know anything about Middlesbrough
either, other than it's big enough to have a team in the Premiership.

Ryan

They appear to be from the "rubber" family.

Were they temporary cancellers perhaps?

http://cjoint.com/data/ftpsOq6OmH.htm




"rodney" wrote in message
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? esbrough.
GB
looking for any explanation on this cancellation please.
Possible useage?

http://cjoint.com/data/ftornWRiN5.htm

Thanks

Hi Ryan,
yep that's what I concluded, Middlesborough.
see my example of "rubbers"

Don't know anything about the Middlesborough team though,
that's that game with the round ball right?
"bend it like stojkovic!" or something like that.


"Ryan Davenport" wrote in message
...
rodney wrote:
? esbrough.
GB
looking for any explanation on this cancellation please.
Possible useage?

http://cjoint.com/data/ftornWRiN5.htm

I don't know anything about the style of postmark, but Middlesbrough
comes to mind - don't know anything about Middlesbrough either, other than
it's big enough to have a team in the Premiership.

Ryan

My dollar would be on Middlesbrough as most other similar town names end with bOrough. Can't think of any others that don't have the O but there
are bound to be some.

John Mycroft

Ryan Davenport wrote:
rodney wrote:
? esbrough.
GB
looking for any explanation on this cancellation please.
Possible useage?

http://cjoint.com/data/ftornWRiN5.htm

I don't know anything about the style of postmark, but Middlesbrough
comes to mind - don't know anything about Middlesbrough either, other
than it's big enough to have a team in the Premiership.

Ryan

Checking in my copy of James Mackay's Postmarks of England & Wales, the
postmark seems to be a parcel post cancellation, which is a likely use for
a 5d stamp.

Regards,
Nick

John Mycroft wrote in
:

My dollar would be on Middlesbrough as most other similar town names
end with bOrough. Can't think of any others that don't have the O but
there are bound to be some.

John Mycroft

Ryan Davenport wrote:
rodney wrote:
? esbrough.
GB
looking for any explanation on this cancellation please.
Possible useage?

http://cjoint.com/data/ftornWRiN5.htm

I don't know anything about the style of postmark, but
Middlesbrough
comes to mind - don't know anything about Middlesbrough either, other
than it's big enough to have a team in the Premiership.

Ryan

Thank you Nick,
and thank you gentlemen.
And thank you James Mackay who is a fountain..............

I am surprised Blair did not chip in,
Is he on holidays perchance?


"Nick Bridgwater" No@Spam wrote in message
. 109.145...
Checking in my copy of James Mackay's Postmarks of England & Wales, the
postmark seems to be a parcel post cancellation, which is a likely use for
a 5d stamp.

Regards,
Nick

On May 19, 7:28*pm, "rodney" wrote:
Thank you Nick,
and thank you gentlemen.
And thank you James Mackay who is a fountain..............

I am surprised Blair did not chip in,
Is he on holidays perchance?



Blair has to WORK for a living and is unfortunately some 5 hours after
UK time.

Mydilsburgh is the earliest recorded form of Middlesbrough's name and
dates to Saxon times. 'Burgh' refers to an ancient settlement, or
perhaps a fort of pre-Saxon origin which may have been situated on
slightly elevated land close to the Tees. 'Mydil' was either the name
of an Anglo-Saxon or a reference to Middlesbrough's middle location,
half way between the Christian centres of Durham and Whitby. In Anglo-
Saxon times Middlesbrough was certainly the site of a chapel or cell
belonging to Whitby Abbey but despite this early activity,
Middlesbrough was still only a small farm of twenty five people as
late as 1801.

In 1829 a group of Quaker businessmen headed by Joseph Pease of
Darlington purchased this Middlesbrough farmstead and its estate and
set about the development of what they termed `Port Darlington' on the
banks of the Tees nearby. A town was planned on the site of the farm
to supply labour to the new coal port - Middlesbrough was born.

Joseph Pease, `the father of Middlesbrough' was the son of Edward
Pease, the man behind the Stockton and Darlington Railway. By 1830
this famous line had been extended to Middlesbrough, making the rapid
expansion of the town and port inevitable. In 1828 Joseph Pease had
predicted there would be a day when;



"..the bare fields would be covered with a busy multitude with
vessels crowding the banks of a busy seaport".

His prophecy was to prove true, the small farmstead became the site of
North Street, South Street, West Street, East Street, Commercial
Street, Stockton Street, Cleveland Street, Durham Street, Richmond
Street, Gosford Street, Dacre Street, Feversham Street and Suffield
Street, all laid out on a grid-iron pattern centred on a Market
Square.

New businesses quickly bought up premises and plots of land in the new
town and soon shippers, merchants, butchers, innkeepers, joiners,
blacksmiths, tailors, builders and painters were moving in. Labour was
employed, staithes and wharves were built, workshops were constructed
and lifting engines installed. Indeed such was the growth of this port
that in 1846 one local writer observed;



"To the stranger visiting his home after an abscence of fifteen
years, this proud array of ships, docks, warehouses, churches,
foundries and wharfs would seem like some enchanted spectacle, some
Arabian Night's vision."

By 1851 Middlesbrough's population had grown from 40 people in 1829 to
7,600 and it was rapidly replacing Stockton as the main port on the
Tees. An old Teesside proverb had proven true; -

"Yarm was, Stockton is, Middlesbrough will be "

Answered with your usual brevity, Blair
thanks very much.

IIRC "burgh" stems from Scandinavian (ancient settlement)
circa 800 ad
but I would have to rescucitate my history book on the Norse
visits to confirm.


"Blair" wrote in message
...
On May 19, 7:28 pm, "rodney" wrote:
Thank you Nick,
and thank you gentlemen.
And thank you James Mackay who is a fountain..............

I am surprised Blair did not chip in,
Is he on holidays perchance?



Blair has to WORK for a living and is unfortunately some 5 hours after
UK time.

Mydilsburgh is the earliest recorded form of Middlesbrough's name and
dates to Saxon times. 'Burgh' refers to an ancient settlement, or
perhaps a fort of pre-Saxon origin which may have been situated on
slightly elevated land close to the Tees. 'Mydil' was either the name
of an Anglo-Saxon or a reference to Middlesbrough's middle location,
half way between the Christian centres of Durham and Whitby. In Anglo-
Saxon times Middlesbrough was certainly the site of a chapel or cell
belonging to Whitby Abbey but despite this early activity,
Middlesbrough was still only a small farm of twenty five people as
late as 1801.

In 1829 a group of Quaker businessmen headed by Joseph Pease of
Darlington purchased this Middlesbrough farmstead and its estate and
set about the development of what they termed `Port Darlington' on the
banks of the Tees nearby. A town was planned on the site of the farm
to supply labour to the new coal port - Middlesbrough was born.

Joseph Pease, `the father of Middlesbrough' was the son of Edward
Pease, the man behind the Stockton and Darlington Railway. By 1830
this famous line had been extended to Middlesbrough, making the rapid
expansion of the town and port inevitable. In 1828 Joseph Pease had
predicted there would be a day when;



"..the bare fields would be covered with a busy multitude with
vessels crowding the banks of a busy seaport".

His prophecy was to prove true, the small farmstead became the site of
North Street, South Street, West Street, East Street, Commercial
Street, Stockton Street, Cleveland Street, Durham Street, Richmond
Street, Gosford Street, Dacre Street, Feversham Street and Suffield
Street, all laid out on a grid-iron pattern centred on a Market
Square.

New businesses quickly bought up premises and plots of land in the new
town and soon shippers, merchants, butchers, innkeepers, joiners,
blacksmiths, tailors, builders and painters were moving in. Labour was
employed, staithes and wharves were built, workshops were constructed
and lifting engines installed. Indeed such was the growth of this port
that in 1846 one local writer observed;



"To the stranger visiting his home after an abscence of fifteen
years, this proud array of ships, docks, warehouses, churches,
foundries and wharfs would seem like some enchanted spectacle, some
Arabian Night's vision."

By 1851 Middlesbrough's population had grown from 40 people in 1829 to
7,600 and it was rapidly replacing Stockton as the main port on the
Tees. An old Teesside proverb had proven true; -

"Yarm was, Stockton is, Middlesbrough will be "