A Church Window and A New Stamp Issue

A Hillsborough church window link
to latest royal mail stamps
Iconic images of some of the UK's most
important historical personalities are
to grace the Royal Mail's latest series
of first-class stamps.

THE ABOVE IMAGE IS JUST A LIKES.
to be issued July 18, 2006

The images, depicting the likes of artist
Sir Joshua Reynolds, Winston Churchill,
Virginia Woolf and William Shakespeare,
mark the 150th birthday of the
National Portrait Gallery,
which hosts more than 9,000 portraits.

To launch the new stamps, Ulster postie
Liam Redman traveled to Hillsborough
to view the only church window in
Ireland based on a design by
Sir Joshua Reynolds.

Rev JF Dinnen,
Dean of Hillsborough Parish Church,
said the East Window is the only glass in
Ireland to feature such a design.

Royal Mail worked closely with the
National Portrait Gallery to select images
of 10 figures from different areas of UK life
embracing sculpture, watercolor,
oil painting and photography.

Further images in the first- class stamp
series are writer TS Elliott,
suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst,
Sir Walter Scott, Mary Seacole,
Dame Cicely Saunders and Charles Darwin.

Barbara Roulston of Royal Mail said:
"Our special stamps are often referred
to as miniature works of art.

The personalities featured all possess
the shared quality of having made
a significant contribution in their field."

I have got five FDC for Five lucky people
that can tell me
The title of one book (where possible)
or famous work if not a book,
by each of the ten people in
the National Portrait Gallery stamps.

email me your answers
Budrow@HIghland.Net

I will take your answers till Midnight
Saturday July 15 then I will draw
five lucky winners from all entries

I will tell who the winners are
July the 18 the same day that
the stamps are released
and I my self will give you my
answers so be sure to look
for part 2 next week till then

Happy Stamping.