This new slogan is illustrated below.

                           IMP 17 (D) and IMP 17 (P) Swiftpost used on 22 May 2000

The Portlaoise slogan that I have seen was on an envelope posted in Dublin so the transfer of mail from Dublin to Portlaoise for processing is obviously still continuing.

Dave

If you are interested in going let me know - if not could I ask you to spread the word!  Also if you have any contacts/railway magazines etc. that would be interested by all means let me know.  In any case it would be good to hear your feedback on the tour. 

Regards
Martin

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1. Copies of newspaper clippings on Imperial crashes.
2. Photographs of Imperial aircraft, either before or after the crash (original photographs will be returned).
3. Copies of crash reports.
4. Good photocopies of covers, especially those with cachet or label varieties not listed by Nierinck.
5. Copies of air mail etiquettes, baggage labels, advertising labels, timetables, etc., which will be used to dress up the book.
6. Complete names of the pilots and crew members involved with Imperial crashes and accidents.

Copies of items should be made on a Canon (or similar) color photocopying machine, set on black & white mode.

I will reimburse all photocopying and postage expenses.

Kendall C. Sanford
12 Chemin des Tuilots
CH-1293 Bellevue (GE)
Switzerland

Perhaps similar copies have been found?  I will be very glad to hear from you.

Yours

Iben Olsen, Denmark

Sincerely.
Vincent McDermott.

The shop is within 2 minutes walking distance from the suburban rail station in Blackrock on the southside of Dublin (20 minutes from city centre).  I will be bringing new stock from London on a regular basis (first weekend of every month) and I look forward to meeting old and new customers there.

If any of your US colleagues are thinking about visiting Stampa in November, you might also diary a short visit to my new shop.  I open as follows :-

Friday : 12.30 pm - 2.30 pm
Saturday : 11.00 am - 5.30 pm
Sunday : 11.00 am - 5.30 pm

Kind regards

James O'Brien
IPTA

A draft list for Dublin having been completed, it was time to look at Cork.  An initial listing is attached; much shorter than that for Dublin, but despite the relative absence of material in my own collection, it does in its way do much to confirm the system employed for issuing the office numbers.  Just in case anyone is still confused by office numbers, a quick word of explanation (skip a few lines if you already know).  Registration labels from town sub offices (not the town Head Office) will have two numbers on them. The first after the town name is the office number of the sub office at which the item was registered, the second is the serial number from that individual office.   This is the number for the town sub office at Blackpool (Linn Dubh) Cork and all items posted at this office will show the number 10.  The item is serial number 170.  Sets of labels for the town sub offices usually ran up to 250 (50 at rural offices and higher at Head Offices).  In theory this was about a fortnight to a months supply, thus it is possible to find other items with a Corcaigh 10 / 170 label, but, supposedly if the system worked, not used on the same day.  The system was introduced in (I think) 1907 and ended in October 1995.

The Cork list confirms that when the numbers were first allocated in 1907, it was seemingly done at random to offices open at that time.  There were 16 sub offices extant at that date and if we look at the list we see that the office numbers were not allocated in alphabetical order, order of date of opening or even town centre first, then suburbs, Grand Parade (8) coming after Barrackton (5) and St Luke’s (6) both some way distant from the Head Office.

Western Road office was opened in 1910 and thus received the next number in sequence (17); Blarney Street and Douglas Road both followed in 1913 and were given 18 and 19, Douglas Road being replaced by Douglas Road South in the 1970s.  The list follows through logically until 28 was seemingly issued in 1949 (to Farranree’s predecessor at Spangle Hill – can anyone confirm this?).

At that date it seems that label series were perhaps for the first time allocated to individual major users in Cork as we have an example of serials 33 and 36 being used from government offices.  New offices followed from the 1960s (Ballyphehane) and the highest number recorded in that for Knocknaheeny (45) opened in 1984.

Could I ask readers once again to check their collections and report what they might have to me.  I am especially interested in examples pre 1922 having nothing in my own collection.

The same system was applied at other towns with sub offices. I shall try and prepare listings for Limerick, Waterford and Galway later in the year.  I believe the same system operated in Belfast (and other cities in Britain) until the 1960s.  If anyone has information on Northern Ireland town sub offices that too would be especially appreciated, the material being considerably harder to find.  Good hunting!
 

CORK TSO Numbers as appearing in Registration Labels
	Office	Date office opened	Dates reported/ seen		Comment
1	Shandon Str		1976-92		assume replaced Buttermarket
2	North Main Str	1850	1973-89
3	Gt Georges Str/ Washington Str	1885	1963-89
4	King Str/MacCurtain Str	1887	1932-90
5	Barrackton	1873	1946-89
6	St Luke's	1855	1944-89
7	Bandon Rd	1884	1978-89
8	Grand Parade	1851	1949-89
9	Glanmire Rd	1855	1982
10	Blackpool	1850	1976-90
11	Capwell	1883	1969-79
12	Sunday's Well	1852	1977-89
13	College Rd	1904	1970-78
14	St Finbarr's	1899	1931
15	Albert Rd	1899	1973-89
16	Ballintemple	reop 1895	1971-89
17	Western Rd	by 1910	1971-89
18	Blarney Str	1913	1978-89
19	Douglas Road South	1976	1980		assume replaced Douglas Rd open 1913
20	Blackrock	1831 prev rural	1981-89
21	High St	by 1931	1977-82
22	Friars Rd	1932	1981
23	Dennehy's Cross	by early 1936	1965-89
24	Montenotte Park	1936	1983
25					?Boreenamana Rd open 1939
26	Gurranebraher	1948	1984-92
27	Bishopstown	1948	1982-89
28	Farrranree	1964	1977-90		was Spangle Hill open 1949
29
30
31
32
33	(Government Dept - An Cigire Canach)		1984		posted at Capwell
34
35
36	Cork Tax Office				reported by MMcN
37	Ballyphehane	1953	1975-89
38	Mayfield	1953	1980-89
39
40	Pouladuff Rd	1969	1972-89		assume previously used at Pearse Rd
41	Fair Hill	1961	1983
42
43	Ballinlough	1964	1981-89
44
45	Knocknaheeny	1984	1988-89
46
47
48
49
50

Patricia Stillwell Walker, "Ireland: Postal History 1661 to the 1890s", Grand Prix National award at Stamp Show 2000, London, in May

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