plantfit 7,535 Posted April 17, 2017 Report Share Posted April 17, 2017 Is there any philatelists on here,I see plenty of other hobbies/interests listed but none for this particular interest,I think most of us collected stamps as kids (remember those little packets of stamps you could buy)and I was just wondering if anyone kept it on Rog Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,269 Posted April 17, 2017 Report Share Posted April 17, 2017 My sister and I kept a stamp album when we were children, Rog. I remember those sticky lozenge things used to fix the stamps in the album. Our neighbour's daughter lived in Gibraltar and then in Uganda, so we got all the stamps from her letters and the odd Australian stamp from a penfriend of my sister's! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,435 Posted April 17, 2017 Report Share Posted April 17, 2017 I dabbled in it for a while when I was a kid, but never really followed it up. But I remember going to this place near the Theatre Royal - and I'll bet others remember it as well. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,535 Posted April 17, 2017 Author Report Share Posted April 17, 2017 I still have a few albums that I collected over the years,don't think they are worth anything but it's nive to look at them now and again just to see how things have changed over the years geographically,countries changing borders,merging with others that type of thing,|I also have a few with a picture of mr Hitlers head on from the 1930's Rog Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,269 Posted April 17, 2017 Report Share Posted April 17, 2017 #3 Never went into the stamp centre but I certainly remember that row of shops, CT! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,594 Posted April 17, 2017 Report Share Posted April 17, 2017 Rog, Paul says he has some 'Hitler stamps' as well. He says he has some Penny Reds and Tuppenny Blues but they aren't particularly rare. He thinks one of his better stamps is a Tuppenny Blue with a Maltese Cross. He hasn't looked at his albums for years - we were planning to look at them and his Coin Collection when we retired (9 years ago!) but we haven't had time yet..... 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,535 Posted April 17, 2017 Author Report Share Posted April 17, 2017 Get the albums out margie and Paul you will enjoy looking at them,all the different places in the world and like I posted things have changed such a lot in the world and the stamps are just another reminder,Might look at my albums in a bit and if there's any interesting ones I might take some photo's and post on here Rog Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The Pianoman 1,531 Posted April 17, 2017 Report Share Posted April 17, 2017 #3 Yes, spent plenty of time in there. There was another stamp place on Mansfield Road which I believe from memory (now fading) was a Stanley Gibbons place but the best was on Forest Road near the Mansfield Road traffic lights. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted April 17, 2017 Report Share Posted April 17, 2017 I'd saved stamps from an early age up till about 14. I thought my collection was valuable, but one time when skint, I sold them to him, and got £20. I'd spent way more than that over the years......... Robbing git ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,535 Posted April 17, 2017 Author Report Share Posted April 17, 2017 Waste of time trying to sell them to a shop,like anything else they don't want to give you owt for them but want to charge the earth if you were buying from them, here's a few some sporting ones some with Mr Hitler on and some more sporting ones Rog Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Braddy 160 Posted April 17, 2017 Report Share Posted April 17, 2017 My brother and i used to collect stamps from the that shop, I'm Shaw it was called Gibbons stamp centre. We also got stamps via the royal mail from the Bridgnorth Stamp company who sent you a small book of stamps, you take out what you want and send back the book with a cheque for the stamps you take out. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,535 Posted April 18, 2017 Author Report Share Posted April 18, 2017 I think there used to be a shop at Clifton that sold a mixed packet of stamps,maybe about a hundred in the packet from various parts of the world,they were perhaps only sixpence to a shilling per packet,the shops could have been Woolworths,co op or even Pettits up the top shops Rog Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tim in the North East 200 Posted May 2, 2017 Report Share Posted May 2, 2017 The shop on Mansfield Road was called Midland Stamp Centre which opened in around 1966 or 1967 - it had a major burglary a few years later which cleared out all of its stock. There was a longer established stamp shop on Forest Road near the Mansfield Road traffic lights called 'A. Cross'. Mr Cross lived in a flat above the shop and when you opened the door a bell rang and you had to wait in a small lobby area until he came downstairs Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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