“Beneath the Shelter of the Encircling Hills” – 1909
Slightly mysterious postcard – sent in 1909, postmarked Bath although there are no clues in the picture or indeed the message – which is equally puzzling…
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Dec 14, 2008 @ 16:00:42
I thought I would look Alice up in Ancestry to lessen the mystery…
Alice Emily Francis was born in 1891 in Bath, so she was 17 going on 18 when this postcard was written. Her father was a self-employed stonemason; she had 6 brothers and sisters, and they lived at 5 Oak St., Lyncombe, Bath. She probably married Robert Gorner (the stylised RG on the postcard?) in Bath in 1918. Robert’s widowed mother ran a boarding house in Harrogate in 1901, but previously his father (also Robert) had been a papermaker in Bath when Robert junior was born. This may explain the ‘Gone but not forgotten’ message – it looks like a long-distance courtship that resulted in the 1918 wedding.
All information gleaned from ancestry.co.uk.