home pageabout usnewshistoryresearchcontacts   BannerTop
BannerNIPS
BannerTop
 
     

Special Event Handstamps - 1979

The Special Event postmarks for the year 1979. These are referenced between 3737-4095. The lines below contain some images, if there is a blank space then I am on the look out for new images. If you have a selection why not send them to us for inclusion. Where images are not available the relevant lines have been ommitted. If you would like a full list of all the 1979 special handstamps please download the pdf file here.

  Unknown    
  Unknown Nr - 22 Nov 1979
Heathrow Airport London, Hounslow Middlesex
   
       
3737 - 2-31 Jan 1979
Anniversaries British Library
3738, 2-31 Jan 1979, Jamaica Stamps & Postal History Exhibition Warwick 3739, 10 Jan 1979, First Day of Sale Picture Postcards WMPB 9-14 Cardiff  
  3747    
3746, 30 Jan 1979, Up-Helly-Aa (Fire Festival) Lerwick Shetland 3747, 1-28 Feb 1979
NZ Pictorial Issue Exhibition Warwick

3748, 3 Feb 1979, Electric Lamp Centenary 1879-1979 Newcastle upon Tyne

 
  3750    
3749, 3 Feb 1979, BFPS 1000 (used at RAF Cardington for First Flight of AD500 Airship -repeat of 3493) (struck in blackish violet) 3750 7 Feb 1979
Spillers Congratulate Kennel Club on Crufts Exhibit London EC4
3751. 7 Feb 1979, England v N Ireland European Championship (football) Wembley  
  3756    
3755, 1 Mar 1979, 60th Anniversary First UK Regular Air Mail BFPS 1919 3756 1-31 March 1979
Egypt Postage Stamp Exhibition, Warwick
3757, 3 Mar 1979, Scotland v Ireland (Rugby Union) Edinburgh (see also 3741)  
    3763  
3761, 17 Mar 1979, Pres Markischer Kreis Flag to Royal Irish Rangers BFPS 1636 3762, 21 Mar 1979, Nottm Forest v Southampton League Cup Final Wembley 3763 21 March 1979
WI (E Kent Fed Dia Jubilee) Canterbury Kent
 
  3765 3766  
3764, 21 Mar 1979, 125th Anniversary of Paddington Station London W2 3765 21 March 1979
Rural Blisworth Exhibition Northampton
3766 21 March 1979
Penzance Cornwall, 20th Anniv Nat Assoc Flower Arrangement Socs
 
       
3767 21 March 1979
St Mary's Isles of Scilly
3768, 21 Mar 1979, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Richmond Surrey 3769, 20th Anniv Founders Day Bluebell Railway Uckfield E Sussex  
  3777    
3776, 4 Apr 1979, Thirty Years of Peace NATO 1949-1979 BFPS 4449 3777 - 5 Apr - 2 Jul 1979
Derby 200 Exhibition Royal Academy London W1
3778, 7 Apr 1979, Last Day of the RT Type Buses Barking  
  3780    
3779 7 Apr 1979, Brighton flower and Horticultural Show Brighton 3780 7 Apr 1979
NEPA (Philatelic) Convention City of Newcastle Upon Tyne.
3781 9 Apr 1979, 10th Anniv of First Flight Concorde 002 Filton Bristol  
    3805  
3803, 4 May 1979, HMS Broadsword Commissioned Plymouth Devon 3804, 8-10 May 1979, STAMP ISSUE DAY 9 May -European Assembly (see also 3777, 3801) 20th Anniv Nat Assoc Flower Arrangement Socs Blackpool 3805 9 May 1979
1st British European Parliamentary Elections London SW1
 
3806 3807    
3806 9 May 1979, National Stamp Week Europa Day Cameo stamp Centre London WC2 3807 9 May 1979
Strasbourg Meeting Place Euro Assembly Twin City Leicester.
3808 9 May 1979, Entente Cordiale Stowmarket  
3809 3810 3811  
3809 9 May 1979
Inst of Gas Engineers 50 Years Royal Charter London SW
3810 9 May 1979
Lions District 105-D Holiday-79 Hayling Island Hants
3811 9 May 1979
1st Day Worth Valley Rly Letter Service Haworth Stn Keighley
 
3812      
3812 9 May 1979
British Chess Federation 1904-1979 Norwich Norfolk
3813, 10 May 1979, HM Visit to Preston Lancashire (repeat of 3295) 3814, 10 May 1979, Presentation of Colours by HM The Queen  
3899 3900 3901  
3899 - 11 July 1979
Beatrix Potter Lived in Near Sawrey
3900 - 11 Jul 1979
NSPCC Bethlehem Llandeilo Dyfed
3901 - 11 Jul 1979
1979 The Year of the Child and Cub Country Year, Birkenhead
 
  3918    
3917, 21 Jul 1979, 10th Anniv first Man on the Moon Marshfield Chippenham Wilts 3918 - 21 Jul 1979
Life-Boat Week Lyme Regis Dorset
3919, 21 Jul 1979, 108th Open (golf) Championship Royal Lytham Lytham St Annes  
       
3920, 21 Jul 1979, WI (Wiltshire federation) Diamond Jubilee Swindon 3921, 23 Jul 1979, 85th Anniversary Grand Theatre 1894-1979 Blackpool 3922, 23 Jul 1979, Fire Pump Centenary 1B79-1979 Kirkcaldy Fife  
  3924    
3923, 26 Jul 1979, First Day of Camp Amikaro Warwick 3924 - 27 Jul 1979
Tresco & Bryher Gig Centenary "Czar"
3925, 28 Jul 1979, The King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Dia Stakes Ascot Berks  
3932   3934  
3932 - 31 Jul 1979
Spillers Stewards Cup Goodwood Chichester W Sussex
3933, 1 Aug 1979, Instal HM Queen Mother Lord Warden Cinque Ports Dover Kent 3934 - 1 Aug 1979
Glasgow Central Station Centenary
 
  3942 3943  
3941, 6 Aug - 1 Sep 1979, Pier Centenary 1880-1980 Bournemouth 3942 - 6 Aug 1979
Edinburgh's First Infirmary 1729 Edinburgh
3943- 10 Aug 1979
150 Perthshire Advertiser, 1829-1979 Perth
 
    3988  
3986, 5 Sep 1979, Commemorative Documentary & Philatelic Exhib Polish Centre W6 3987, 5 Sep 1979, 48th East Midlands Home Life Exhib PO Stand Leicester 3988 - 8 Sept 1979
Gillette Cup Final Lord's Ground London NW8
 
3989 3990 3991  
3989 - 8 Sept 1979
Vernons Sprint Haydock Park Newton-le-Willows Merseyside
3990 - 10 Sept 1979
First Kent-Liverpool Mail by Air Lydd Romney Marsh Kent
3991 - 10 Sept 1979
41 Commando Royal Marines UNFICYP 1979 Medal Day BFPS 1664
 
  3993    
3992, 11 Sep 1979, Widecombe Fair Widecombe-in-the-Moor Newton Abbot Devon 3993 - 12 Sept 1979
England v Denmark European Championship Wembley
3994, 13 Sep 1979, 100 Years of Refreshment Travellers-Fare Leeds  
3995 3996 3997  
3995 - 15 Sept 1979
39th Anniv Battle of Britain RAF Abingdon BFPS 1668
3996 - 15 Sept 1979
Farewell to the Gnat Red Arrows BFPS 1669
3997 - 15 Sept 1979
The St Leger Stakes Jockey Club Doncaster South Yorkshire
 
       

A 3995 - 15 Sept 1979
Battle of Britain Anniv RAF St Athan BFPS 1663
   
  3999    
3998, 15 Sep 1979, Masonic Centenary Norwich Norfolk 3999 - 17 Sept 1979
Mod nan Eilean Stornoway Isle of Lewis Western Isles
4000, 19 Sep 1979, The Woodlands School Silver Jubilee 1954-1979 Coventry  
  4002 4003  
4001, 19 Sep 1979, Liverpool FC Champions Back in Europe Liverpool 4002 - 19 Sept 1979
Nottingham Forest European Champions Nottingham
4003 - 20 Sept 1979
K 700th Anniv 1279-1979 Kenilworth Warwickshire
 
4004 4005    
4004 - 21 Sept 1979
Ladbroke (Ayr) Gold Cup The Jockey Club Ayr
4005 - 22 Sept 1979
Great Working Steam Engines Stourpaine Bushed Blandford Forum, Dorset
4006 - 22 Sept 1979
Bi-Centenary of the Flamborough Engagement Bridlington
 
    4009  
4007, 22 Sep 1979, East Bergholt-Barbizon Twinning East Bergholt Colchester Essex 4008, 22 Sep 1979, Ysgol Natur Official Opening & Open Day Llanrhaeadr Oswestry 4009 - 22 Sept 1979
Festival 800, 1179-1979 Preston Lancashire
 
  4011 4012  
4010, 22 Sep 1979, Municipal Transport 75 Years Rodbourne Centre Swindon Wilts 4011 - 22 Sept 1979
Earp Centenary Walsall W Mids
4012 - 24 Sept 1979
Centenary Southwold Railway Southwold Suffolk
 
4013      
4013 - 25 Sept 1979
GB's 1st Lady Prime Minister opens shopping area Milton Keynes
4014, 26 Sep 1979, STAMP ISSUE DAY 26 Sep -Police (see also 3976, 3983) 40th Anniv Shooting down first enemy aircraft BFPS 1662 4015, 26 Sep 1979, 40th Anniversary of Sir John Gielgud at Blackpool  
    4045  
4043, 17 Oct 1979, Royal Visit Police Tattoo Wembley Arena Middx HA9 ODW 4044, 18 Oct 1979, Blackpool Aviation Week Commemorative Issue Blackpool 4045 - 20 Oct 1979
Official Naming of Blyhe Life-boat Blyth Northumberland
 
4049      
4049 - 23 Oct 1979
Berlin Tattoo 1979 BFPS 1666
4050, 24 Oct 1979, STAMP ISSUE DAY 24 Oct - Rowland Hill Min Sheet (see also 3976,4031) - Bruce Castle Museum Tottenham N17 (repeat of 3961) 4051, 24 Oct 1979, Sir Rowland Hill Director/Chairman London & Brighton Railway Company 1843-1846 Brighton  
  4053    
4052, 24 Oct 1979, Cartoonists Club honour Sir Rowland Hill London (Gatwick) Airport Horley Surrey 4053 - 25 Oct 1979
10th Anniv The Royal Hussers
4054, 26 & 27 Oct 1979, Souvenir London Championship (fur/feather) Show N22 (separate handstamp each day, same design)  
  4056 4057  
4055, 29 Oct 1979, Windmuller Trust 1914-1979 Age not protect from folly LondonN3 4056 - 29 Oct 1979
Royal Infirmary 1879 Edinburgh
4057 - 30 Oct 1979
Official naming of Dover Life-Boat
 
4061      
4061 - 1 Nov 1979
35th Anniv Attack on Walcheren Island
4062, 3 Nov 1979, Inter Postal 79 Postal History Exhibition London WC2 4063, 3 Nov 1979, Borough of Blackburn Passenger Transport 50 Lancashire  
    4066  

4064, 5 & 6 Nov 1979, Confederation of Brit Industry Nat Conference Birmingham (used with PO produced commemorative cover)

4065, 5 Nov 1979, International Archives Week Ipswich Suffolk 4066 - 7 Nov 1979
Sunderland AFC Centenary
 
4067 4068
 

4067 - 10 Nov 1979
Remembrance Festival, Royal Albert Hall

4068 - 10 Nov 1979
Mackeson Gold Cup The Jockey Club Cheltenham
4069, 10 Nov 1979, Golden Jubilee Exhib Peterborough & Dist Philatelic Society  
4070 4071    
4070 - 10 Nov 1979
60th Anniv 1st Regular UK International Air Mail BFPS
4071 - 12 Nov 1979
60th Anniv of First Flight England to Australia
4072, 12 Nov 1979, 35th Anniversary of Sinking of the Tirpitz Lincoln  
4079 4080 4081  
4079 - 21 Nov 1979
RHDR salutes Cheriton tradersXmas Lights, Folkestone Kent
4080 - 21 Nov 1979
Father Christmas Special, Kent and East Sussex Railway, Tenterden, Kent
4081 - 21 Nov 1979
Centenary of the War Cry
 
  4086    
4085, 21 Nov 1979England v Bulgaria (football) Wembley 4086 - 22 Nov 1979
Year of the Child RSSPCC Melville House Edinburgh
4087, 26 Nov 1979, TMD (Telephone Managers Division) 21st Anniversary Coventry  
    4090  
4088, 26 Nov 1979, Mail Trains of South west Postcard first Day of Sale Swindon (also PO applied cachet on some cards 'Air Dropped by LXX Squadron) 4089, 28 Nov 1979, The Postbus in Scotland Glasgow (used in connection with new Postbus postcards SP81-5) 4090 - 1 Dec 1979
40th Anniv Formation of the Air Transport Auxiliary
 
       
4094 4095    
4094 - 24 Dec 1979
Christmas Greetings Llandeilo Dyfed
4095 27 Dec 1979 to 26 Mar 1980
Wintertime The British Library London WC
END OF 1979  
       

 

 

 

 

 

 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
       
  contactsbanner    
     
  Copyright © NI Philatelic Society
designed by KMcS, Dec 2009
Home   Philatelic Research Library   Committee Latest News