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Does anyone know about the Post Office at Nyllavert [Trevallyn} spelt backwards and better still would anyone have a stamp cancelled with a Nyllavert postmark or a registration label of the same please. Thanks, Darren

I can provide a scan and rego label later today if you like. To give a potted history of the office.

It initially opened 20.8.1890 and closed 30.9.1898. It seemingly received no numeral or CDS and operated as a sort of sub office, despite the P.M receiving a salary of around 30 pounds per annum, a considerable amount. Even more remarkably, it was not in Trevallyn at all but at the corner of Margaret Street and Bridge Road.

It then reopened in 1991 and closed 31.7.1921. It seemed to have a similar status as before, although an undated manuscript cancel is known on a 1d pictorial circa 1911.

It then reopened in 1937 and Nyllavert? Why Nyllavert? It was Trevallyn spelt backwards. It was in the 1910-40 period that the Nomenclature Board was heavily involved in the naming of Post Offices and very few were allowed to open if an office of the same name already existed in another state-Witness Trevallyn in NSW already open. Therefore, Nyllavert, obviously someone had a sense of humour. This stipulation was lifted upon the introduction of postcodes, hence in 1968 we see a new date stamp allocated again, in the Trevallyn name. The P.O is still open.