Match The Postmark To A Post Office.

Rod222 said :Please explain your avatar Scotzm :)

This was my design for a new Scottish regional stamp to celebrate the opening of a new Historic Helmets Museum in Edinburgh. Alas, my design was not accepted. Our Culture Ministry recently opened the new Scottish Historic Helmets Museum to much delight of the several tourists who found Scotland to be a country marvelous for its people, its customs, its festivals and its landscapes. We are most advanced here in Scotland...well, this is the age of portable phonographs after all. I am most impressed by these advances and might even start paying my taxes.

Some great place names from Australia. My brother worked and lived there for 30 years or so. Must try and dig out his old letters etc. Meantime...






Never seem as upmarket as the names suggest, do they!

The Stromness Post Office, Orkney Islands, Scotland. Now moved to a new location (with fewer services) but not updated on Google Streetview. Note the sandstone paved road which is typical of the old town centre. Yellow "No Parking" lines right up to the edge of the building due to narrow streets not built for cars. A remote area... the kind of place where, if you try to find it on a map, it says "nowhere near you".

Of course not, you have a design flaw
you forgot the eye and earholes

Great pictures of the Post Offices

Rod222 spoke thus: Of course not, you have a design flaw you forgot the eye and earholes

It was an early essay?
Actually my avatar is a reference to my "musical" past. Late seventies, early eighties I was in a local punk group. Inspired by the likes of Sid Vicous, Johnny Rotten of the Sex pistols we became Myster Bungo, Dave Dangerous, Jedd Mental and "Crazy" Maurice. Called ourselves The Bucketheads(hence the avatar). Had some minor success around the student venues in Aberdeen. Dave later married an Irish girl and went off to live on some remote Irish island. He died after he fell overboard while lifting his lobster pots. Crazy went on to be a roadie for top Canadian progressive rock band SAGA for 20 years. Unfortunately he is now in a coma in the Concordia Hospital, Winnipeg, Canada. Bungo is a baker and living in Scotland. Happy days eh!

Scotzm: great human interest stuff! I always enjoy the story behind stamps. If I drove into that village and decided to stop where would one normally go to park?

I can remember being in a queue of around 6 people when I was a boy waiting for this handstamp. Banff was one mile from my home town.


Built in 1906. Closed in 1994. Must have looked great when new with the POST OFFICE and the Edward VII shield cartouche carved in stone.

Two "POST EARLY" postmarks. On the right is the Royal Mail version on a 1st class stamp. On the left is the 50p Hogswatch stamp and postmark Below is the Ankh-Morpork Post Office.