BEATLES STAMPS THE MOST POPULAR SPECIAL COLLECTION RELEASED BY ROYAL MAIL

A special stamp collection featuring The Beatles’ classic album sleeves remains the most popular of the last decade.

The 2007 stamp issue honoured ten of the band’s most iconic album covers including Abbey Road, Revolver, Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and Help!

This year, the Royal Mail will be celebrating 50 years of Special Stamps. Since the programme began in 1965, the Royal Mail has issued over 2,600 special stamps.

To mark the anniversary, the Royal Mail will attach plaques to 50 postboxes across the country, in places where a special stamp features a landmark, or where someone of note was born or lived.

The Archbishop of Liverpool will today unveil a postbox plaque featuring the Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral on Hope Street.

Royal mail stamp featuring The Beatles albums from 2007

The Most Reverend Malcolm McMahon, The Archbishop of Liverpool, said: “I am delighted that Royal Mail has chosen this unique way to celebrate a special local landmark through a stamp on a local postbox, giving the community an opportunity to share in the tribute.”

The plaque will provide information about a 1969 special stamp on which the Metropolitan Cathedral featured.

Royal mail stamp featuring The Beatles albums from 2007

Stamps on other postboxes around the country include images of Winston Churchill, Dylan Thomas, York Minster and Sherlock Holmes.

Andrew Hammond, director of stamps and collectables at Royal Mail, said: “The UK’s towns and cities have influenced stamp designs over the past 50 years. At the same time, our iconic red postboxes have formed memorable landmarks across the country since 1852.”