Ahead of the upcoming bank holiday weekend and TT Fortnight, we would like to make you aware of our operational arrangements:
This special stamp issue marks the 35th Anniversary of the tragic deaths of two local firefighters, Gerard Johnson and Robert Finlayson, the only two Firemen in the Falkland Islands who have lost their lives while on active duty.
Ascension is a speck on the world map. Seemingly lost in the Atlantic Ocean, the island is tiny and unique. Much of Ascension’s biodiversity fits the same description. Some of the smallest animal forms, found nowhere else on the planet, rule this isolated island.
Isle of Man Post Office (IOMPO) would like to announce the following operational changes for the coming Easter bank holidays which are also available on their website www.iompost.com/bankholiday:
Isle of Man Post Office is running a tender exercise (on the Isle of Man Government procurement website) for the provision of counter services in the vicinity of the existing Windsor Road Post Office in Douglas.
Following a procurement process, Isle of Man Post Office (IOMPO) is pleased to announce it has appointed a new provider of postal services for Port Erin.
The origins of St Mary’s go back to 1764, when a French Benedictine monk and botanist named Dom Antoine Pernetty came with the earliest settlers at Port Louis. Dom Antoine screened off part of the dining room in the main building at Port Louis and used it as a chapel. Later, under the Spanish administration that began in 1767, a temporary chapel dedicated to Nuestra Señora de la Soledad (Our Lady of Solitude) was built. This was replaced with a more permanent stone-and-brick building that was consecrated in 1801.
In 1844 the settlers moved from Port Louis to Stanley, which on Friday, 18th July 1845, became the capital.
