Page 491 - Sierra Leone to 1961 - The Collection

Cline Town 
Cline
Opened 14 August 1900. Closed from 1915 to 1926, and thereafter open until
independence in 1961. Located on the northern coast of the Colony, and also a Town
station on the railway system.

24 December 1904 - Cline Town to London, United Kingdom. A typical example of the pre-1910 practice
of hand-stamping the envelope at the office of posting, and cancelling the ‘stamp’ at Freetown.

Postcard used to Glasgow, United Kingdom. Posted with a Sierra Leone Edward VII 1d adhesive with an undecipherable date.
Text of message reads: ‘Just arrived here spending an hour on shore’. Postcard Type THS1240, published by H. Thies, Hamburg.