Lessines (BE)

Lessines is a municipality (18,377 inhabitants in 2013) located in the Walloon province of Hainaut. It used a postal code 71 with bars (before 1864), and 214 with points before 1870. The municipality includes also (with Flemish exonyms) Bois-de-Lessines (Lessenbos), Deux-Acren (Twee-Akren), Ghoy, Ogy (Oseke), Ollignies (Woelingen), Papignies (Papegem), and Wannebecq (Wannebeek).

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Postmarks after 1950

Postal codes: -7860 Lessines since 1969 -7861 Papignies, Wannebecq -7862 Ogy -7863 Ghoy -7864 Deux-Acren (7870 in 1969) -7866 Bois-de-Lessines (7851 in 1969), Ollignies (7850 in 1969).

Baudouin period

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Slogan Carrières, Musées, Festin Vendredi Saint in 1979.

Postmarks before 1950

Leopold III period

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Albert I period

Bilingual LESSINES B LESSEN in 1911.

Railway Postmark in 1923.

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Leopold II period

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Covers

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Prephilately

Red double circle in 1836.