august 4th 1908 p brown to ivy peacock

blackpool, lancashire to crook, durham

115 miles

the message

"Port Vale Villa

87 Albert Road

Blackpool

Dear Ivy

Just a line to tell you we are enjoying ourselves. I would just like you to see Blackpool. You have not the least idea what it is like so are on the go till 11 at night & then I think we cannot see all

Love to all from

P Brown"

the sender

There are no clues to the identity of P Brown.

the recipient

Ivy Peacock (1892-1984) was the daughter of Alfred Peacock (1862-1945) and Mary Jane Bainbridge (1863-1925). Alfred was a joiner by trade and worked in a colliery.

Ivy was a draper's assistant in 1911 and in 1939 she was the manager of the millinery department of the Co-Operative Society in Crook, Durham and living with her widowed father and her sister Catherine Annie Peacock (1899-1998). Ivy did not marry and died in 1984 in Crook, Durham.

the tree

the places

Blackpool, Lancashire

Crook, Durham

what the card says to us

The picture shows the North Shore at Blackpool which is where the card was posted.

Whoever P Brown was, they appear to be having a great time in Blackpool. Presumably they are on holiday and have written the card in a hurry. There are a few missing words.

Interesting that the card was sent c/o Ivy's father Alfred. Ivy was 16 years old when the card was sent.