Summary
AFTER licking the Royal Mail in a 10-year battle to get their postal service restored, the owners of the little island of Sanda have returned to a tradition of printing their own stamps.
The tradition was started by the Russell family in the 1960s with the help of a printer in Girvan, but fell by the wayside in 1970 when stamps - featuring the Apollo moon landing in 1969 - were printed for Jack Bruce of Cream, the pop group, who owned the island, which sits at the convergence of the Irish Sea and the Firth of Clyde.See the full content of this document
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First It Got a Pub, Now Sanda's Getting Stamps
Now, Meg Gannon and her husband Dick, the owners of Sanda, which extends to 314 acres...
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