Aldershot

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Received the following in email this morning, and I'm wondering if any of you learned gentlemen might have an answer...

Dear Sir/Madam,

I don't realy know if I'm at the right place for my question, but up till now I havne't found another website in my direction.

I'm mailing you because I'm looking for a relationship with two postal marks on a cover from 1864 which I hopefully could use in my topic philatic exhibit "World of Gymnastics".

I know that at Aldershot Camp the Physical Army Training Corps was situated, also the Brittish top-gymnast and champion Nick Stuart was training there in the sixties of the last centuary. A postal mark of Aldershot Camp is situated at the back of a cover, the cover is send from Farnboro Station (postal mark on the stamp at the front of the cover) to someone in or at Douglas Hill or Douglas Castle. At the back of the cover there's a postal mark of this.

My queastion is; was Aldershot Camp situated in Douglas Hill or Douglas Castle?

I hope you can help me,
Yours sincerely,

Danny Jimmink

[Richard Farrant]

Originally posted by Geoff Winnington-Ball
Received the following in email this morning, and I'm wondering if any of you learned gentlemen might have an answer...

Geoff,

If this is of any help, Farnborough is adjacent to Aldershot so the fact that two postmarks are on this cover of these two places is not unusual, but Douglas Hill and Douglas Castle are at different ends of the country, the former is near Sevenoaks in Kent and the later in Ayrshire, Scotland.

Richard