A collection of articles on the stamps and philatelic history of Herm Island has just been published exclusively on this website.
These web pages arose from a conversation between Bob Forrester and David Ackroyd about Herm Island’s stamp and philatelic history. They knew that much of the information which had been published in the past had never brought together in one place. Furthermore they realised that much information would be lost in time if action is not taken now.
Bob and David are long standing philatelists, with Bob’s interest in Herm stemming from the 1960s and David’s from visits each year fro
m 2001. They secured the help of two other people: Andrew Bailey, who manages this website, and Peter Hewitt who helped prepare the material for publication on the web.
Sadly Bob Forrester died on 30th January 2009. The vast amount of time and effort he put into compiling details of Herm Island philately will be displayed on these pages, along with the continuing work of his co-contributors Peter Hewitt and David Ackroyd.
The first five articles are now on the website. Together, they give some indication of the scope and diversity of Herm's own stamps, and the history of its independent postal service. More will follow in the future.
To find out more about the stamps and philately of the Channel Islands, go to the Channel Islands Specialists’ Society website http://www.CISS1950.org.uk
