Page 94 - 148 Years of the Royal Philatelic Society London

In 1959: Castro seizes power in Cuba; Dalai Lama flees Tibet; Frank Sinatra wins first ever

Gram my Award; Russia sends probe to the dark side of the Moon; first integrated circuit.

At the RPSL: Subscriptions raised to 7 guineas for Town Members, 5 guineas for Country and

65/- for Overseas; Manchester Philatelic Society gives first display by a non-specialist society.

RPSL President was W. Ewart Gerrish O.B.E. Patron H.M. Queen Elizabeth II.

Membership between 873 and 1014.

REGISTERED MAIL

FROM NOW CLOSED R.A.F. BASE

From the collection of David Leathart.

Member since 2014. Lives in the England.

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Watton lies at the middle of the county of Norfolk in England. It has been a market town since the

reign of King John in 1202. In 1938 the R.A.F. built a large airbase on the eastern outskirts of the

town at Carbrooke. Watton's link with U.S.A. was formed at Easter 1943 when the U.S.A.F. 25th

Bomb Group took over the station. Sadly R.A.F. Watton closed in 1991 and is now a housing estate.

This envelope was for registered post of 1/3d. There are two vertical graphite lines on the back of

stamps that were an experiment for the automation of mail sorting between 1957 and 1960.