27 June: The Art Fund - the operating name of the National Art Collections Fund - has a contest to find The Museum of the Year. There are five finalists including the Postal Museum. MB has sent a copy of the latest slogan postmark which notes Brooklands Museum as one of the finalists - which suggests that there will be a slogan for each of the finalists. But this series is likely to be interrupted by one tomorrow for Armed Forces Day which is this Saturday, 30 June.
The Brooklands slogan is from Edinburgh, and dated 27 June 2016. Thanks to MG we can at last show the other layout, from Lancashire & South Lakes (Preston) 27/06/18
Art Fund_
Museum of
the Year 2018
Finalist
Brooklands Museum
* the underscore after 'Art Fund_' is deliberate and part of their operating name.
28 June: the second museum of the year candidate to get a slogan is Ferens Art Gallery, this example from North West Midlands 28 June 2018. And we also now have the Edinburgh version.
2 July: the third candidate is the Glasgow Women's Library, used here in Edinburgh on 30 June 2018. I've been told that the Glasgow slogan was not used in the other format, but that Armed Forces Day continued instead. This must either be a mistake or unnecessary!
3 July: the fourth candidate is the Tate St Ives, used here in Peterborough MC on 2 July. Also the alternative version from Lancashire and South Lakes.
4 July: the final candidate is The Postal Museum, this one from North West Midlands on 3 July.
As The Postal Museum was outdone by Tate St Ives, there was no (self-)congratulatory slogan for them winning the big prize.
9 July: It seems that there is a bigger problem with dogs and postmen in the Wolverhampton area as they are running with a second Dog Awareness Week, judging by this slogan used on Saturday 7 July (while other MCs have returned to the default 'Action for Children' slogan). Thanks to MB for this used at the North West Midlands Mail Centre:
11 July 2018 The winner of this year's Golden Man Brooker Prize is Michael Ondaatje, for The English Patient. (*see comments). Slogans of both types have been received at Norvic Towers, but we will be interested to see any oddities with this slogan.
Glasgow 09-07-18, North & West Yorkshire 10/07/2018, and a glitched logo from Gatwick on the same date.
UPDATE: Thanks to KC for this transposed version from Chelmsford (South East Anglia) - which still missed the stamp!
16 July 2018: I'm convinced that Wolverhampton's North West Midlands Mail Centre is stuck in a time warp (see Dog Awareness 2 above). MB has now sent a copy of the Ferens Gallert Art Fund postmark clearly dated 14 July
29 July 2018. What may be the last one for July, from BM, marking the 200th birthday of Emily Bronte, for which event Royal Mail dedicated a postbox in Market Street, Thornton. This is from Exeter Mail Centre, postmarked 47 July 2018
Happy 200th birthday
Emily Bronte
30 July 2018
1 August 2018: (not quite) the final post in this thread shows the other format, courtesy of MB, from North West Midlands on 28 July.
UPDATE 6 August: Thanks to 'McSet' who sent yet another example of out-of-period use, with this RA250 slogan first used on 8 June, now used at Tyneside used on 31 July.
UPDATE 31 August: And to HW who has sent the Tyneside example used on 29 August!
UPDATE 6 August: Thanks to 'McSet' who sent yet another example of out-of-period use, with this RA250 slogan first used on 8 June, now used at Tyneside used on 31 July.
UPDATE 31 August: And to HW who has sent the Tyneside example used on 29 August!
As usual, all new postmarks for July will be shown here and, don't forget, there are two layouts for most slogans. Another post will be started as soon as we have the first slogan for August.
To quote - 'The Booker Prize Foundation has launched the Golden Man Booker Prize to mark the 50th anniversary. This special one-off award will crown the best work of fiction from the last five decades of the prize, as chosen by five judges and then voted for by the public.'
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