Christmas 2006 Checklist

(items provided to my "New Issue" service - in delivery order)

(this will include any previous year's releases that were not distributed at the time)

Arrivals 1 - 25

(distributed as batch 1, 5th February 2007)

  Post Description Cancels
1 Caerphilly 1 re-issued stamp  
2 Bewdley & Cleobury Mortimer 5 new stamps  
3 Bewdley & Cleobury Mortimer First day covers a: circular "FIRST DAY OF ISSUE" around logo (blue)
4 Cuffley 1 new stamp  
5 Cuffley First day covers a: Scout logo & unit name (violet)
6 Otford 18 new stamps (6 designs, 3 colours)  
7 Otford Used covers a: Guide logo + three lines of text (black)
8 Kendal 1 new stamp  
9 Chipping Sodbury 6 new stamps  
10 Rugby 8 new stamps  
11 Rugby Used covers a: rectangular, boxed, 3 lines of text (black)
12 Derby 1 new stamp  
13 Derby First day covers a: circular, date & 2 lines of text (black)
14 Stourport-on-Severn 5 repeat stamps  
15 Strathaven 1 new stamp  
16 Strathaven Souvenir cover (undated)  
17 Crowborough 1 repeat cachet a: three lines of large text (black)
18 Wrington 10 repeat stamps (2005 issue)  
19 Oakley 1 repeat cachet a: text, badge & text (black)
20 Burntisland 1 new cachet a: circular, greeting & logo (black)
21 Taff Ely 1 repeat stamp (2004 issue)  
22 Wirral 1 new stamp  
23 Wirral First day cover a: rectangular, boxed "WIRRAL CHARITY POST" (black)
24 Wirral Used covers a: rectangular, boxed "WIRRAL CHARITY POST" (black)
25 Lympstone 1 new cachet a: circular "1st LYMPSTONE SCOUT GROUP" around logo (green)

Arrivals 26 - 50

(distributed as batch 1, 5th February 2007)

  Post Description Cancels
26 Cardiff & the Vale 1 new stamp  
27 Cardiff & the Vale Carried covers Unmarked
28 Edinburgh 1 new stamp  
29 Liphook 2 new stamps  
30 Liphook Used covers a: single line datestamp (black)
31 Weare 2005 (late delivery) 2 new stamps  
32 Weare 2005 (late delivery) 2 First day covers a: circular date stamp (red)
33 Swindon 5 new stamps  
34 Swindon Used covers a: boxed, rectangular, text/date/text (black)
35 Northowram 1 new stamp  
36 Keyworth 1 new stamp  
37 Keyworth Used covers a: Rainbows teddy design, as before (black)
38 Cuffley Used covers a: Scout logo & unit name (violet)
39 Castle Hedingham 4 new stamps  
40 Castle Hedingham Used covers a: large circular c.d.s (pale pink)
41 Syston 1 new stamp  
42 Syston Souvenir covers a: irregular rectangular, holly + text (black)
b: also a single line datestamp (black)
43 Beacon Hill 1 new stamp  
44 Beacon Hill Souvenir covers (very limited issue of 10) a: rectangular, boxed, text & logo (red)
b: circular tree, logo & text (red)
45 Beacon Hill Used covers a: rectangular, boxed, text & logo (red)
b: circular tree, logo & text (red)
c: rectangular, boxed, Grand Jumble Sale advert (red)
46 Dronfield 5 new stamps  
47 Dronfield First day covers a: circular, town & date (black)
48 Dronfield Used covers a: various unit-based postmarks as previous years (black or greenish)
49 Copthorne 1 new stamp  
50 Copthorne First day covers a: rectangular, boxed, name, date & thanks (black)

Arrivals 51-75

(to be distributed as batch 2, July 2007)

  Post Description Cancels
51 Newport 1 new stamp  
52 Silver End 5 new stamps  
53 Silver End Used covers a: boxed, rectangular text (black)
54 Rivenhall possibly 1998 (very late delivery) 1 new stamp  
55 Southminster 1998 (very late delivery) 1 new stamp  
56 Bewdley & Cleobury Mortimer Used covers a: rectangular, boxed logo & text (blue)
57 Darwen 1 new stamp  
58 Didcot Three cachets a: two new dated cachets (black)
b: 1 re-used undated cachet (black)
59 Hinchley Wood & Thames Ditton One new cachet a: rectangular, boxed, Unit name, "Christmas Post" & web address (black)
60 Salisbury & South Wiltshire 30 new stamps (1 complete sheet)  
61 Parkeston 1 cachet a: Santa & text (red)
62 Turners Hill & Crawley Down 5 new stamps  
63 Turners Hill & Crawley Down First day covers a: single line date (black)
64 Turners Hill & Crawley Down Used covers a: single line date (black)
65 Derby Used covers a: circular large DEC 2006 (black)
b: circular small DEC 2006 (black)
c: circular year 06 on ram's head (red)
b: circular large DEC 2006 (red>
66 Boreham 1 new stamp  
67 Boreham First day covers a: oval, text and date (black)
68 Boreham Used covers a: oval, text and date (black)
69 Exeter 2 new stamps  
70 Exeter First day cover a: large circular "EXETER SCOUTS / FIRST DAY OF ISSUE" and date (black)
71 Exeter Used covers Coded for delivery areas but not franked
72 Todmorden 1982 (very late delivery) 1 new stamp  
73 Todmorden 1984/5 (very late delivery) 1 new stamp  
74 Abingdon 1 new cachet a: design as previous years, dated 2006 (blue)
75 Darwen Used covers  

A few late deliveries have been moved to the 2007 new issues list for distribution with the first new items that year.

Sadly, we have had to say goodbye to the following Postal Services in recent years.

Post Did not operate in
Aspley Guise
(may be back in 2007)
2006
Bath 2006
Black Notley 2006
Castleside 2006
Croydon (Croham Valley)
(may be back in 2007)
2006
Kirkham & Wesham 2006
Old Windsor 2005
Retford 2006
Weare 2006
   

On a brighter note, the following new (or revived) posts have been mentioned on the Internet or elsewhere and supplies are being sought and will be distributed if and when they become available. I would be delighted to hear from anyone involved with any of these posts with a view to updating my catalogue as well as purchasing supplies of stamps & covers.

(**) indicates that samples have been acquired and will be / have been distributed.

Making contact with these postal services is surprisingly difficult and any assistance would be welcomed with open arms.

Post Started in
Bampton (Devonshire)  
Barton Segrave (Northamptonshire)  
Biggleswade (Bedfordshire)  
Binfield (Berkshire)  
Bradninch (Devon)  
Bridge - nr. Canterbury (Kent)  
Broughton (Northamptonshire)  
Broughty Ferry (Dundee)  
Budleigh Salterton (Devon)  
Burntisland (Fife)** ** before 2003
Crediton (Devon)  
Deddington (Oxfordshire)  
Dunbar (East Lothian)  
Dunfermline (Fife)  
East Devon (Devonshire)  
Eastfield [49th Scarborough] (North Yorkshire)  
Fenstanton & Hilton (Cambridgeshire)  
Forres (East Lothian)  
Four Marks (Hampshire)  
Geddington (Northamptonshire)  
Guisborough (Cleveland)  
Gourock/Greenock (70th Renfrew scouts)  
Harefield (Middlesex)  
Hawick (Borders)  
Hinchley Wood & Thames Ditton (Surrey)** **2006
Histon Guides (Cambridgeshire)  
Holmes Chapel (Cheshire)  
Huntspill & Highbridge (Somerset)  
Inverness  
Ivybridge (Devonshire)  
Leven (?)  
Longfield & Hartley (Kent)  
Malden (Surrey)  
Melton Mowbray (Leicestershire)  
Oban (Argyll)  
Olton - nr Solihull (West Midlands)  
Radcliffe-on-Trent (Staffordshire)  
Raglan (Gwent) 2006
Shefford (Bedfordshire)  
Shipley (Baildon Moravian) (West Yorkshire)  
Silverton (Devonshire)  
Southminster (Essex)** **1998(only)
Stocksfield (Northumberland)  
Stowmarket (Suffolk) 2001(?)
Todmorden (West Yorkshire)** **1982(?)
Ulverston (Lancashire)  
Wantage & Grove (Oxfordshire)  
Wargrave (Berkshire)  
West Hoathly (West Sussex) reported in 1993
West Linton (Borders)  
Whitburn (West Lothian) 1986
Yeovil (Somerset)  
   

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