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.
Roman Inscriptions of Britain part of an altar with the inscription "[I(ovi)] O(ptimo) M(aximo) D(olicheno) | ...] Sabini fil(ia)| ...]ina, Regulus| ...]Publi[...". This inscription is shown here with the critical marks from the "RIB" intact. Roman Inscriptions of Britain Roman Inscriptions of Britain is a 3-volume corpus of inscriptions found in Britain from the Roman period. It is an important reference work for all scholars of Roman Britain. This monumental work was initiated by Francis J. Haverfield – his notebooks were bequeathed to the University of Oxford. The first volume, "Inscriptions on Stone" was then edited by R.G. Collingwood and R.P. Wright with an