Showing posts with label UK. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UK. Show all posts

Wednesday, 13 December 2023

Friday, 21 October 2022

Postcard from UK.



 Thank you very much for the card on folksong and nice stamp.

Tuesday, 18 October 2022

Postcard from U.k



 Jack Merriott was an English writer, artist, and poster designer famous for his artworks produced for British Railways and the General Post Office. Wikipedia

The art work image on postcard- NORTHUMBERLAND COAST, BAMBURGH AND THE FARNE ISLANDS, [BRITISH RAILWAYS]- by JACK MERRIOTT (BRITISH, 1901-1968),is valued @ $3,250.00 in auction.

2022 Stamp- Queen Elizabeth II - Barcode - International Tariff

Thank you Claire for the beautiful Artwork card.

Friday, 24 June 2022

Platinum Jubilee celebration of Queen Elizabeth II U.K.


In 2022, Her Majesty The Queen becomes the first British Monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee after 70 years of service.

 Queen Elizabeth II is celebrating an unprecedented 70 years on the British throne. Across four days of outlandish pomp and ceremony, the British people  celebrated the life and times of a Queen who has ruled over them since 1952.

 The 96-year-old is Britain's longest-reigning monarch, and the third-longest reigning in world history. She is surpassed only by the French King Louis XIV, who ruled for some 72 years between 1643 and 1715, and Thailand's late King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who was on the throne from 1946 to 2016.

2022 stamp- The 70th Anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II Accession to the Throne

1997 Stamp- The 50th Anniversary of the Wedding of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip

2011 Stamp- Queen Elizabeth II 

Thank you Adam for the wonderful postcard on Queen's Platinum Jubilee and beautiful matching stamps. A collector's item indeed.

 

Saturday, 11 June 2022

The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales, U .K


The transformation that industrial slate quarrying and mining brought about in the traditional rural environment of the mountains and valleys of the Snowdon massif is illustrated in this heritage site. The territory, extending from mountain-top to sea-coast, presented opportunities and constraints that were used and challenged by the large-scale industrial processes undertaken by landowners and capital investors, which reshaped the agricultural landscape into an industrial centre for slate production during the Industrial Revolution (1780-1914). The serial property comprises six components each encompassing  quarries and mines, archaeological sites related to slate industrial processing, historical settlements, both living and relict, historic gardens and grand country houses, ports, harbours and quays, and railway and road systems illustrating the functional and social linkages of the slate industrial landscape. The property was internationally significant not only for the export of slates, but also for the export of technology and skilled workers from the 1780s to the early 20th century. It played a leading role in the field and constituted a model for other slate quarries in different parts of the world.

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Date of Inscription: 2021
Dossier: 1633 
Ref:Unesco.org
2008 Stamp- Insects - UK Species in Recovery
1998 Stamp- Lighthouses
2011 Stamp- Queen Elizabeth II 

Thank you Adam for the scenic site card and beautiful stamps.

Sunday, 17 April 2022

The Great Spa Towns of Europe--City of Bath,UK.


Bath is the only city in the UK to be a designated World Heritage Site in its entirety twice. 
In 1987, the city was listed by UNESCO as a cultural site with outstanding universal value and cultural significance, due to its Roman remains, hot springs, eighteenth-century architecture, eighteenth-century town planning, social setting and landscape setting. 
In 2021, Bath received an exceptional second UNESCO listing as part of the Great Spa Towns of Europe.
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Date of Inscription: 2021
Dossier: 1613

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Austria
Belgium
Czechia
France
Germany
Italy

This transnational serial property comprises eleven spa towns, located in seven European countries. All of these towns are developed around natural mineral water springs. They bear witness to the international European spa culture that developed from the early 18th century to the 1930s, leading to the emergence of grand international resorts. 
Thank you Adam for the wonderful site card with beautiful stamps.
2013 Stamp Machin Definitive(January 3 2013)
2004 Stamp Woodland Animals-Stoats Mustela erminea.
1998 Stamp Endangered Species


Tuesday, 20 August 2019

Jodrell Bank Observatory,UK.




Located in a rural area of northwest England, free from radio interference, Jodrell Bank is one of the world's leading radio astronomy observatories. At the beginning of its use, in 1945, the property housed research on cosmic rays detected by radar echoes. This observatory, which is still in operation, includes several radio telescopes and working buildings, including engineering sheds and the Control Building. Jodrell Bank has had substantial scientific impact in fields such as the study of meteors and the moon, the discovery of quasars, quantum optics, and the tracking of spacecraft. This exceptional technological ensemble illustrates the transition from traditional optical astronomy to radio astronomy (1940s to 1960s), which led to radical changes in the understanding of the universe.
Date of Inscription: 2019
Ref: 1594- (Unesco Whs)
Thank you Julia for the beautiful card and nice stamp.
2019 stamp- World War II - The 75th Anniversary of D-Day




Wednesday, 27 June 2018

The English Lake District,UK



Located in northwest England, the English Lake District is a mountainous area, whose valleys have been modelled by glaciers in the Ice Age and subsequently shaped by an agro-pastoral land-use system characterized by fields enclosed by walls. The combined work of nature and human activity has produced a harmonious landscape in which the mountains are mirrored in the lakes. 
Received with thanks the heritage site card from Chelsea.
Date of Inscription: 2017
Ref: 422rev( unesco.org )

Saltaire,UK.



Saltaire, West Yorkshire, is a complete and well-preserved industrial village of the second half of the 19th century. Its textile mills, public buildings and workers' housing are built in a harmonious style of high architectural standards and the urban plan survives intact, giving a vivid impression of Victorian philanthropic paternalism.
Received with thanks the heritage site card Chelsea.
Date of Inscription: 2001
Ref: 1028( unesco.org )



Excellent service from 
Royal Mail

Wednesday, 29 November 2017

Blaenavon Industrial Landscape,UK.


The area around Blaenavon is evidence of the pre-eminence of South Wales as the world's major producer of iron and coal in the 19th century. All the necessary elements can still be seen - coal and ore mines, quarries, a primitive railway system, furnaces, workers' homes, and the social infrastructure of their community.
Thank you Sabine for this site card and wonderful stamps.
Date of Inscription: 2000
Ref: 984
2015 Stamp- Engineering - Bridges
2015 Stamp- First World War -1915

Thursday, 22 June 2017

City of Bath,UK.



Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City,UK.



Located at the tidal mouth of the river Mersey where it meets the Irish Sea, the maritime mercantile City of Liverpool played an important role in the growth of the British Empire. It became the major port for the mass movement of people, including slaves and emigrants from northern Europe to America. Liverpool was a pioneer in the development of modern dock technology, transport systems and port management, and building construction


Tuesday, 24 January 2017

Old and New Towns of Edinburgh,UK.



Edinburgh has been the Scottish capital since the 15th century. The contrast between the organic medieval Old Town and the planned Georgian New Town of Edinburgh provides a clarity of urban structure unrivalled in Europe. The juxtaposition of these two distinctive townscapes, each of exceptional historic and architectural interest, which are linked across the landscape divide.
Thank you Alicia for the panoramic site card.
Date of Inscription: 1995
Ref: 728