Vectis postal service Vectis postal service The Vectis postal service was a postal service set up during the national postal strike of the United Kingdom in 1971. This was amongst a number of local delivery services which flourished during the strike. The service was set up by a group of Ryde business men, led by R.W.Cawdell, C.C., who acted as head postmaster for the service. It covered an area encompassing the whole of the Isle of Wight. At peak the service handled over 1500 items of mail daily. The national postal strike ended on 8 March 1971, and with it the local service.
Sub-Roman Britain subject. However, early studies have, so far, tended to produce implausible conclusions from very small numbers of people and using outdated assumptions about linguistics and archaeology". Sub-Roman Britain Sub-Roman Britain refers to the transition period between the Roman Empire's Crisis of the Third Century around 235 (and the subsequent collapse and end of Roman Britain) and the start of the Early Medieval period. The term is derived from an archaeological label for the material culture of Great Britain in Late Antiquity. The term Post-Roman Britain is also used for the period, mainly in non-archaeological contexts. The term "sub-Roman" was originally