Maritime Heritage Stamps

These Royal Mail stamps were affixed to specially designed envelopes and postmarked on the first day that the stamps were issued.

16.06.1982 | Westward Ho, Postmarked at Westward Ho!

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16th June 1982 - Maritime Heritage
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Notes: Westward Ho! is such an appropriate postmark for this issue - and is the only town in the UK to end with an exclamation mark! The name derives from the novel by Charles Kingsley of the same name.
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