Little bits of history through the post …..that remarkable invention

The continuing series on first day issues, and the history behind them.

These are the envelopes of first day issues from our Stella’s collection, and this one speaks for itself.

Now I have always had a fascination with the Hovercraft, partly because I once made an Airfix model of the prototype, and because in 1980 me and my sister Elizabeth took the hovercraft ferry to France.

Pictures; first day of issue stamps, 1969, from the collection of Stella Simpson