Last year I was given an old album printed in 1962. It contained a stamp from 1960 commemorating the 50th anniversary of an aeroplane's first flight.
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| Romania - 17 June 1960 |
This was the anniversary of the first flight of the plane built by Romanian engineer Aurel Vlaicu. He built four planes before he was killed in 1913 attempting to be the first to fly across the Carpathian Mountains.
I guess millions of planes have flown over the white cliffs of Dover, although as a young boy in wartime I associated them with bluebirds and did not expect to see them feature on a red postage stamp.
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| Great Britain - 3 May 1951 |
That was the year, as a schoolboy, I went to London to see the Festival of Britain on the South Bank of the Thames.
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| Great Britain - 3 May 1951 |
I've always been surprised that neither the Dome of Discovery nor the Skylon from the Festival have ever appeared on stamps.
