Great Britain - The Imperforate Issues (1840-1853)

Numeral Cancellations of English Provincial Towns (Numbers 100 to 149)

100 Botesdale

Suffolk

Earliest recorded use :

[EA] cancelled with
 a black numeral
(100 Botesdale)

101 Ixworth

Sufflok

Earliest recorded use :

[PL] cancelled with
 a black numeral
(101 Ixworth)

[PB] plate 1, [GL FA-FB] plate 3, cancelled with
black numerals (101 Ixworth)

102 Woolpit

Suffolk

Earliest recorded use :

[DE-DH] plate 94, strip of 4, cancelled with
black numerals (102 Woolpit).

103 Bourn

Lincolnshire

Earliest recorded use :

[AI] cancelled with
 a black numeral
(103 Bourn)

104 Brackley

Northamptonshire

Earliest recorded use :

[GB] plate 99, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(104 Brackley)

[BA] cancelled with
 a black numeral
(104 Brackley)

105 Bracknell

Berkshire

Earliest recorded use :

[OD] cancelled with green numeral (105 Bracknell).

[JA] plate 51, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(105 Bracknell)

106 Bradford

Wiltshire

Earliest recorded use :

[AB] on dated piece (28 June 1844)
cancelled with black  numeral
(106 Bradford on Avon).
 

[OF] cancelled with
 a black numeral
(106 Bradford)

107 Bradford

Yorkshire

Earliest recorded use :

[AA-AD] strip of four, plate 4 cancelled with
black numerals (107 Bradford)

[AC-BD] plate 159, block of 4, cancelled with
 black numerals (107 Bradford).
AC with recut frameline.

[OG] plate 150, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(107 Bradford)

[LF] plate 49, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(107 Bradford)

[HC] plate 36, on entire dated 6 Jan 1844 from Bradford to Halifax
cancelled with a black maltese cross.
 

[RL] plate 153, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(107 Bradford)

[HF] plate 4, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(107 Bradford)

110 Keighley

Yorkshire

Earliest recorded use :

[NI-OL] plate 96, block of 8, cancelled with
black numeral (110 Keighley).

[ML] plate 1b, cancelled with black maltese cross
 on letter from Keighley to London
dated 17 August 1841.
 

[FD] plate 48, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(110 Keighley)

[AH] cancelled with
 a black numeral
(110 Keighley)

111 Bingley

Yorkshire

Earliest recorded use :

[KF] entire (6 June 1849) from Bingley to Halifax.
Cancelled with black numeral (111 Bingley).
 

[IC] plate 40, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(111 Bingley)

[LK] cancelled with
 a black numeral
(111 Bingley)

112 Braintree

Essex

Rarity

D

Earliest recorded use :

3 Jul 1846

[BJ] plate 147, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(112 Braintree)

113 Brampton

Cumbria

Earliest recorded use :

114 Brandon

Suffolk

Earliest recorded use :

[CJ] cancelled with black numeral (114 Brandon)

[BB] cancelled with
 a black numeral
(114 Brandon)

115 Stoke Ferry

Norfolk

Earliest recorded use :

[HD] cancelled with
 a black numeral
(115 Stoke Ferry)

118 Brentwood

Essex

Rarity

D

Earliest recorded use :

4 Jul 1844

[TJ] cancelled with
 a black numeral
(118 Brentwood)

122 Bridgenorth

Salop

Earliest recorded use :

[BC] cancelled with
 a black numeral
(122 Bridgenorth)

123 Bridgewater

Somerset

Earliest recorded use :

[HL] from Bridgewater to Wellington, dated 5 August 1847
cancelled with a black numeral (123 Bridgewater)

[SA] plate 107, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(123 Bridgewater)

[SE] cancelled with
 a black numeral
(123 Bridgewater)

[FI] plate 106, from Watchett to Taunton, dated (internally) 15 February 1851,
cancelled with a black Maltese cross

Very late usage of the Maltese cross
Also has Watchet Penny Post

124 Bridlington

Yorkshire

Earliest recorded use :

[KD] plate 92, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(124 Bridlington)

[QJ] plate 63, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(124 Bridlington)

125 Bridlington Quay

Yorkshire

Earliest recorded use :

[HI] plate 81, cancelled with black numeral (125 Bridlington Quay).

[BJ] plate 88, cancelled
with black numeral
(125 Bridlington Quay).

[MJ] cancelled with
 a black numeral
(125 Bridlington Quay)

[HK] cancelled with
 a black numeral
(125 Bridlington Quay)

126 Hummanby

Yorkshire

Earliest recorded use :

127 Bridport

Dorset

Earliest recorded use :

[MI-MK] plate 1, strip of 3 on piece, cancelled
contrary to regulations
 with two black numerals (127 Bridport).

[HF] cancelled with black Bridport CDS
(May 1843)

[PH] plate 63, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(127 Bridport)

[OG-OH] pair, Bridport to Beaminster, dated May 1844, cancelled,
 contrary to regulations,
with a single black 127 numeral of Bridport.
 

[SA-TB] block of four, plate 1, from Bridport to London dated 8 October 1844,
cancelled with black numeral (127 Bridport)

Very late use of 1840 2d plate 1.
 

[JK] plate 3, from Bridport to Blandford ,dated 1 April 1843,
cancelled with a black Maltese cross
 

[IK] plate 101, cancelled with
 a blue datestamp of
Bridport (23 July 1850)

128 Beaminster

Dorset

Earliest recorded use :

[LC] plate 67, cancelled with
 a black datestamp
(Beaminster 1846)

129 Brigg

Lincolnshire

Earliest recorded use :

[NJ] plate 76, cancelled with black numeral (129 Brigg).

[LA] plate 141, cancelled with black numeral (129 Brigg).

130 Caistor

Lincolnshire

Earliest recorded use :

[DA] plate 4, cancelled with black numeral (130 Caister)

[BJ] plate 152, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(130 Caistor)

[BE] from Caistor to Macclesfield, dated 14 November 1847,
cancelled with a black numeral (130 Caistor)
Also has “Caistor L” undated circle

131 Limber

Lincolnshire

Earliest recorded use :

132 Brighton

Sussex

Earliest recorded use :

[FH] plate 110, cancelled with black numeral (132 Brighton).

[GF] plate 57, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(132 Brighton)

[AK] plate 43, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(132 Brighton)

[BC-BF] cancelled with
three black numerals
(132 Brighton)
Contrary to regulations

133 Catterick

Yorkshire

Earliest recorded use :

[RD] plate 58, from Catterick to Rochdale, dated 9 February 1846,
cancelled with a black numeral (133 Catterick).

Also has Scorton undated circle in green on reverse
 

134 Bristol

Gloucestershire

Earliest recorded use :

[IE] plate 66, cancelled with black numeral (134 Bristol).

[CK] plate 88, cancelled with black numeral (134 Bristol).

[DI] plate 127, cancelled with blue numeral (134 Bristol).

[KC] plate 132, cancelled with blue numeral (134 Bristol).

[TB-TC] plate 95, pair cancelled
with blue numerals (134 Bristol).

[KI] plate 96, cancelled with
 a blue Bristol datestamp
(Sep 1850)

[ED] cancelled with
 a black numeral
(134 Bristol)

[OA-OB] plate 94, split pair, Bristol to Blackwood, dated 15 February 1850, cancelled,
 contrary to regulations,
with a single black 134 numeral of Bristol.
 

[CJ] plate 41, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(134 Bristol)

[LH] cancelled with
 a Temple-Combe UDC [e]

135 Caxton

Cambridgeshire

Earliest recorded use :

136 Brixham

Devon

Earliest recorded use :

137 Broadway

Worcestershire

Earliest recorded use :

138 Bromyard

Herefordshire

Earliest recorded use :

[LA] cancelled with
 a black numeral
(138 Bromyard)

[CG] plate 41, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(138 Bromyard)

139 Bromsgrove

Worcestershire

Earliest recorded use :

[RJ] cancelled with
 a black numeral
(139 Bromsgrove)

140 Redditch

Worcestershire

Earliest recorded use :

141 Studley

Warwickshire

Earliest recorded use :

142 Brough

Westmoreland

Earliest recorded use :

143 Temple Sowerby

Westmoreland

Earliest recorded use :

144 Bromley

Kent

Earliest recorded use :

[PK] cancelled with
 a black numeral
(144 Bromley)

145 Buckingham

Buckinghamshire

Earliest recorded use :

[QK] plate 97, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(145 Buckingham)

147 Bungay

Suffolk

Earliest recorded use :

[GL] plate 93, cancelled with black numeral (147 Bungay).

[JL] cancelled with
 a black numeral
(147 Bungay)

[IJ] from Bungay to London, dated 8 March 1847,
cancelled with a black numeral (147 Bungay)

148 Buntingford

Hertfordshire

Earliest recorded use :

149 Burford

Oxfordshire

Earliest recorded use :

[TG] plate 4, cancelled with black numeral (149 Burford).

[FE] plate 72, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(149 Burford)

[TD] cancelled with
 a black numeral
(149 Barford)