Tournai (BE)

Tournai is a city and municipality (69,593 inhabitants in 2013) of Belgium, on the river Scheldt, in the Walloon province of Hainaut.

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Postal history

The municipality of Tournai consists of 30 former municipalities. Some had a post-office opened before 1910, in chronological order:

- Tournai opened before 1830. It used a postal code 120 with bars (before 1864), and 363 with points before 1874. Sub-office STATION opened on 8 October 1879.

- Templeuve on 1 December 1850. It used a postal code 169 with bars, and 350 with points.

- Barry (-Maulde) on 1 December 1850. It used a postal code 171 with bars, and 28 with points.

- Havinnes, on 1 August 1862. It used a Distribution postal code 132 with vertical bars, and 172 with points.

- Blandain, on 29 September 1866. It used a postal code 421 with points.

- Vaulx, on 10 April 1877

- Gaurain-Ramecroix (relay) on 10 March 1880

- Kain, 17 February 1896

- Ramegnies-Chin, 27 June 1896

- Froidmont-lez-Tournai, 12 April 1897

- Froyennes, 19 January 1906

- Rumilies, 10 April 1908

- Ere, on 26 August 1908.

Postmarks after 1950

Postal codes 7500 (Tournai, Ere), 7503 (Froyennes), 7504 (Froidmont), 7520 (Ramegnies-Chin, Templeuve), 7522 (Blandain), 7530 (Gaurain-Ramecroix), 7531 (Havinnes), 7534 (Barry, Maulde), 7536 (Vaulx), 7540 (Kain, Rumillies) since 1990.

TOURNAI 1 in 1987.

TOURNAI 1 in 1999

KAIN

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KAIN was an independent municipality, until it was added to Tournai during the municipal reorganization of 1977.

Circle with points KAIN in 1960.

Slogan cancels

Slogan cancel Tournai, 1985.

Meter cancels (all periods)

Meter cancel Tournai-1, 1977.

Meter cancel Tournai, 2004.

Postmarks before 1950

Leopold III period

File:Tournai (BE) LIII a.jpg

File:Tournai (BE) LIII b.jpg

Albert I period

Circle TOURNAI 2E in 1914.

Circle TOURNAI 1F in 1927.

TOURNAI - F Railway in 1930.

Leopold II period

Circle TOURNAI in 1894.

Circle TOURNAI in 1899.

Circle TOURNAI in 1900.

Railway Cancels

Tournai Station in 1884.

TOURNAI(STATION)

Tournai Station DEPART in 1897.

Tournai (Central) in 1909.

BARRY-MAULDE in 1919.

ALLAIN in 1930ca.

Covers

1865 letter to Lille.