This is a truly cockney post card – from Margate (why do I hear Chas and Dave?) to Bethnal Green. Sent to Green Street in 1910, shows The Oval in Margate in a strange sort of painted photograph…can you imagine an open tennis court like that today? Click more to see the full message.
South Shields – sent to Hill Corner, Langley Burrell, Chippenham in Wiltshire in June 1959 – the postcard makes South Shields look quite attractive in a late 1950′s way. Click more for the great message (infection and colic!)…cheerio!
Torquay – The Rock Walk in Torquay, sent in 1925 to L. Allen (Lily Allen?) Commercial Road in Limehouse, London, I love the palm trees in Torquay…really makes the English Riviera come alive. Click more to see the full message
Lord Street, Southport – 1906, sent to New Windsor Street, Uxbridge – the message here is funny, ‘I hope I did not hit you with that stone on Wed. did I?’
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Boulogne-sur-Mer – sent in 1934 to H. Headham (sp?), Cauldwell Hall Road, Ipswich – the trip was just a couple of days…from Brighton?
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A Yorkshire River (wonder which one?), sent in 1915 to Cleethorpe Road in Grimsby.
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Frensham Pond, sent in 1918 from Barracks in Aldershot to Harrow Road, Paddington. I like the urgency of the message, ‘Write at Once’
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Oxford, Magdalen College (more modern picture from the same location here) – beautiful card sent at Christmas 1939 to Oxford (not very far!)
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Union Street, Greenock, Scotland – sent to Edith Rice, Newton Stewart, Ireland in 1904 with a message between lovers:
If lovers were lovers always,
The same to sweetheart and wife,
Who would change for a future of eden,
The joys of this chequered life.
But husbands grow grave and silent,
And cares on the anxious brow,
Oft replace the sunshine that perished,
With the words of the marriage vow.
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Ickwell Bury (near Biggleswade?) – sent in 1907 to Sevenoaks in Kent. I’m guessing this was sent from a boarding school (Ickwell Bury is now a residential teaching centre), Randall appears to have run out of envelopes.
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