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SPRINGHILL
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The Imperial penny postage scheme had been in effect for less than a fortnight when this letter
was sent to England and now the Royal Mail Steamer took only 16 days for the journey - this
letter leaving Kingston on June 6th 1899 and arriving in Northampton on the 22°d.
This office only opened in September 1894 and used a temporary rubber datestamp made locally
for nearly 3 months before the permanent steel double-ring obliterator arrived from the G.P.O.,
London.
--&fa--;.. €& ...~
f?~~~4r
eA~
g.~~~
The Imperial penny postage scheme had been in effect for less than a fortnight when this letter
was sent to England and now the Royal Mail Steamer took only 16 days for the journey - this
letter leaving Kingston on June 6th 1899 and arriving in Northampton on the 22°d.
This office only opened in September 1894 and used a temporary rubber datestamp made locally
for nearly 3 months before the permanent steel double-ring obliterator arrived from the G.P.O.,
London.
