I bought on eBay for £20 a lighthouse album. If you don’t know what they are,  they’re pre-printed album sheets and you can attach your own stamps  to them. I think they’re really nice.  

This is quite an old album from the 1980s  and it’s been knocked about quite a bit,  

but the pages are reasonably clean and all there. The idea is  that you attach your stamps to the position  

on the page. It’s been used before, so that  there’s a few hinge marks but nothing too bad.

They will fit in other Lighthouse albums  and I do have another Lighthouse album, a newer one, one of the green ones.

The newer ones have more pegs in, they have five pegs, so what I’m doing is, I’ve punched holes in to add extra holes for the pegs  and I’ve also added small mounts to them, so that my stamps can go in.  On the back of the album pages, I’ve just added a  small strip of card just to reinforce them.

 

It’s a very, very short reign – 1937 to 1952. It’s  around 14 or 15 years. George VI, if you’ve seen  

the movie, The Speech, wasn’t in great health  and he certainly wasn’t expecting to be king  

and he died quite, quite young really. His wife,  the Queen Mother, I think, died when she was over  

a hundred, so to say that he died prematurely is  maybe an understatement. Well, I’ve managed to add

all the basic stamps of his reign. On this  page, there’s stamps with a sideways and  

upside down (inverted) watermarks. I believe  the sideways (watermark) stamps, they were used  

on coils of stamps that you  could get from a machine and  

the upside down Watermark stamps,  they were used in stamp booklets.

So, there’s some higher-value stamps and  managed to pick these up on eBay and I think

for less than £10

and they’re quite nice. Maybe I’ll  have a look at some others as I go on,  

where the postmarks are quite heavy (and replace  them). These are the war issue stamps and  

those are the 1950 to 51 definitive  issue with a colour change

Again, inverted and sideways stamps, (I mean)  watermark and coming to these. These two here  

they were issued for the Channel Islands to  mark the end of the occupation by Germany.  

The channel Islands were the only part of Great  Britain, sorry the British Isles, I beg your  

pardon, that were occupied during the War.  The people there had quite a bad time,  

these are two of the victory stamps,  

these are the Silver Jubilee, sorry the Silver  Wedding anniversary stamps of the King and Queen.  

I really love this £1 stamp here and I thought  they were quite expensive, the list price I think  

is £50 for a stamp like this but on eBay,  I bought this one in not terribly good  

condition for £9 so I was really, really  happy. There’s the Olympic Games stamps  

and the Postal Union. Festival of  Britain and some more High-values  

and that was the end of his reign.