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SearchMight anyone know if the postmark/post town name finder tool below is still available somewhere? The link given doesn't appear to be accessible.
G.B Postal Towns http://philately.ttrr.org/gb/towns/victowns.html
by John A. McCulloch
Have you ever wondered about which town a partial CDS came from? For the Victorian Period of Great Britain ... here's a chance to find out.
Partial postal town name finder
Re: Partial postal town name finder
[By the way - in case it's important to someone - I noticed that the time of posting of this message is showing as 10 pm, whereas I'm actually posting it at 9 pm GMT.]
Re: Partial postal town name finder
As far as I can tell, the towns finder is now gone. I'm not sure if anyone has a copy of the database for it.
A close replacement is the GB post offices list on this site:
https://www.gbps.org.uk/tools/ukpo
It's not quite the same thing as the towns finder, as that was based on actual postmarks seen, but on the other hand it's more comprehensive as it doesn't require someone to submit a postmark and so has the obscure offices too.
(Good spot on the timezone btw -- the default was set to UTC+1, not sure why, hadn't noticed that. I've reset it to Europe/London, which should handle daylight savings time. Unfortunately, most accounts will have picked up the old default, although I've changed yours -- and mine -- to Europe/London.)
A close replacement is the GB post offices list on this site:
https://www.gbps.org.uk/tools/ukpo
It's not quite the same thing as the towns finder, as that was based on actual postmarks seen, but on the other hand it's more comprehensive as it doesn't require someone to submit a postmark and so has the obscure offices too.
(Good spot on the timezone btw -- the default was set to UTC+1, not sure why, hadn't noticed that. I've reset it to Europe/London, which should handle daylight savings time. Unfortunately, most accounts will have picked up the old default, although I've changed yours -- and mine -- to Europe/London.)
Re: Partial postal town name finder
Thank you for the 'pointer' to the 'ukpo' tool (and for the timezone fix).