Aden is now part of Yemen and is currently not a place to be. However in WWII it was a vital staging post for our Navy and visited by my eldest brother when he was in the Fleet Air Arm.
I doubt that he would have taken much notice of -
I doubt that he would have taken much notice of -
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| Aden - 1939 |
This is the Aldrus Mosque in Crater, Aden which was built originally in the 15th or early 16th century and rebuilt after being destroyed in 1859.
Although we have been to Cyprus we did not get to Famagusta in the north of the island to see the St Barnabas Monastery.
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| Cyprus - 17 September 1962 |
This is now an icon museum. It includes the tomb of St Barnabas discovered in 480 AD.
For other places of worship check out the stamps shown at Sunday Stamps.
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Very interesting stamps, as usual.
When I was a kid I collected stamps and remember carefully using stamp hinges and tweezers so as not to handle the stamps unnecessarily and get them mounted in my albums. I wonder how this all works now when the stamps are all peel and stick, or has philately become a hobby of the past, or did it get truncated with the arrival of the sticky backed variety? How do collectors view the whole rash of personalized stamps? Surely they are not interested in collecting other people's grandchildren, or pet dogs.
Hi Bob - stamps are so interesting ... I'd have loved to have visited the Yemen - but not adventurous enough and so sadly never got there ... I did love Kate Humble's tv programme/s on her journey there ... so interesting: so sad that and other parts of the world aren't being cared for.
Cheers Hilary
Churches and mosques are one thing I like to see when I travel (more for the architecture than anything else) This one in Cyprus sounds amazing.
David - I still have albums containing hinged stamps but now use stock books where you just slot a stamp behind a plastic strip.
Peel and stick stamps are a problem as it's very difficult to remove them from cards and envelopes - Great Britain and the USA cause particular problems. Most other countries still have stamps that can be floated off in water.
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