Saturday, 11 August 2018

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - Glasgow

As a service to collectors Royal Mail has a number of pictorial postmarks in use for different cities. Each postmark shows a famous landmark and is available at one of the Special Handstamp Centres.

The postmark for the Scottish city of Glasgow shows Glasgow City Chambers. The City Chambers or Municipal Buildings in Glasgow has functioned as the headquarters of Glasgow City Council since 1996, and of preceding forms of municipal government in the city since 1889, located on the eastern side of the city's George Square. An eminent example of Victorian civic architecture, the building was constructed between 1882 and 1888 to a competition winning design by Scottish architect William Young a native of Paisley.
Inaugurated in August 1888 by Queen Victoria, the first council meeting was held within the chambers in October 1889. The building originally had an area of 5.016 square metres. In 1923, an extension to the east side of the building in John Street was opened and in 1984 Exchange House in George Street was completed, increasing the size of the City Chambers complex to some 14.000 square metres.

For this pictorial postmark I managed to find three stamps from Glasgow, two issued for the European City of Culture in 1990 and one from the Millennium series featuring Hampden Park football stadium. The postmark (number 4656) can be obtained by writing to Northern Special Handstamp Center, Royal Mail Tallents House, 21 South Gyle Crescent, Edinburgh EH12 9PB, United Kingdom.

Images of all pictorial postmarks can be seen on the website of Norvik Philatelics: norphil.co.uk/postmarks/perm.

Date sent: 15 May 2017
Date postmark: 19 May 2017
Date received: 24 May 2017
Number of days: 9
Envelope in collection: 108




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