Blankenberge (BE)

Blankenberge is a town and a municipality (19,362 inhabitants in 2015) in the Belgian province of West Flanders. Apart from the sandy beach, there's a structure unique along the Belgian coast: a 350-m long pier, constructed in 1933.

The municipality comprises also the village of Uitkerke.

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Postal history

The post office (named BLANKENBERGHE) opened on 1 November 1847. It used a Distribution postal code with vertical bars 7 with points (before 1855), then a code 6, and 42 with points before 1874.

Postmarks after 1950

Postal code since 1969: 8370 (8371 Uitkerke before 1990).

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Baudouin period

Touristic flame in July 1966.
DC 1 BLANKENBERGE 1 in July 1969.	DC in 1972.	Postmark 8370 in 1973.

Postmarks before 1950

Leopold III period

DE IDEALE BADPLAATS - LA PLAGE IDEALE in 1946.

BLANKENBERGE 1 - 1950 issue

Albert I period

1911

Leopold II period

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Circle BLANKENBERGHE in 1893ca.

Leopold I period

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Perception code 6 in 1861ca.

Cards and Covers

1911 Blankenberge to Lyaskovets, Bulgaria.