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Uncovering history one postcard at a time
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What Happened to Jos and Sissy?

September 26, 2021

In this card from 1907 there is a pointed comment that Jos and Sissy did not turn up on Saturday

For more click on the picture of the card.

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Tags 1907, Postcard, Carlisle, Cumbria, Longtown, Steele, Heyjerington, Beckton, Forsyth
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A Visit To Family In Llandudno

September 8, 2021

There is quite a complicated story behind this 1907 card sent to a son visiting relatives in Llandudno.

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Tags 1907, Postcard, Pitt, Griffith, Llandudno, Conwy, North Wales, Handsworth, Birmingham, Warwickshire, Tudno
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Day Trip To Bath And Salisbury In 1907

August 21, 2021

This card is a report on a motoring day trip from Southampton to Bath and Salisbury in 1907 from Maud Crambrook nee Farrant to her sister Lucy Ann Smaridge nee Farrant via husband John Smaridge. No mention of their father Champness Farrant.

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Tags 1907, POSTCARD, Smaridge, Farrant, Crambrook, Salisbury, Wiltshire, Attenborough, Nottinghamshire, Southampton, hampshire, Normanhurst, Champness
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Marketing in 1907 Torquay

August 13, 2021

This is a card sent for marketing purposes in Torquay in 1907.

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Tags 1907, Postcard, Torquay, Devon, Way, Cox
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Dora Admonishes Mabel Again

June 12, 2021
Tags 1907, postcard, Jameson, Ealing, London, Birmingham, Warwickshire, Tristram, Hobbiss
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Racy Stuff In Ramsgate in 1907

February 15, 2021
  1. This is one of two cards sent by W to Norah Gertrude Birch in Ramsgate in 1907. It’s quite racy.

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Tags 1907, postcard, ramsgate, kent, London SW, Birch, Ide
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Depressing Message From A Birmingham Hospital In 1907

January 31, 2021

This card was sent in 1907 to Upper House Farm, Wormelow. It appears to be from someone who has been in hospital for 5 weeks.

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Tags 1907, Postcard, Jones, Albert, Wormelow, Herefordshire, Birmingham, Warwickshire
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A Fourth Mirror Writing Card From Louisa To Lance

September 30, 2020

This is the fourth of four cards sent by Jessie Louisa Smith to her future husband Thomas Lance Simmons in 1907. They are all written in mirror writing. They have all been returned to their rightful owner, their grand daughter.

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Tags willesden, 1907, London, Postcard, Watford, Hertfordshire, Smith, Simmons, Mirror Writing
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Cards Reunited

May 8, 2020

After being contacted by a member of the extended family related to these 3 cards, they are to be reunited with their rightful owner.

The cards from 1907 and 1922 relate to the Le Patourel family of Guernsey.

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Tags 1922, 1907, Le Patrouel, Guernsey, campton, new hampshire, St Peter Port
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All Right This Time

August 30, 2019

A simple message from a daughter to her mother, the feather curler, in 1907 Liverpool.

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Tags 1907, Liverpool, Lancashire, Riden, Kirkness, Plumassier
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A Meeting Missed In Whitland

April 24, 2019

There is not much to say about this card from rural Wales in 1907.

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Tags 1907, postcard, whitland, carmarthenshire, thomas, davies
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Eva's Engagement

May 23, 2018

This is the second of two postcards from 1907 that were sent to Marie Ogier Le Patourel who was living on Guernsey in the Channel Islands.

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Tags 1907, Postcard, Le Patourel, St Peter Port, Guernsey, Gaudion, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire
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Happy Birthday Henrietta

March 16, 2018

This is a simple birthday card from 1907 Torquay.

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Tags postcard, 1907, Trott, Torquay, Devon
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Untraced Miss R Cole

November 16, 2017

The recipient of this birthday card from 1907 could not be traced.

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Tags Postcard, Cole, 1907
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Thanks for the Almanac

October 23, 2017

This card from 1907 is one of seven in the collection that were sent to and kept by the Wrathall family of Lanacster. It features the picture of an actress called Marian Lindsey of who there is hardly any trace of the internet.

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Tags Postcard, 1907, Wrathall, Lancaster, Marian Lindsey
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Bad weather in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne in May 1907

October 11, 2017

This is a simple weather report for Newcastle-Upon-Tyne posted in May 1907.

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Tags Postcard, 1907, Tattersall, Newcastle, Wetheral, Carlisle
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Castor Oil Is No Good

October 2, 2017

This card, sent to Guernsey in 1907, is full of jokes about cold remedies and advice about croquet violence.

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Tags postcard, 1907, Le Patourel, Guernsey, Poplar, croquet
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Don't Forget The Bike

September 24, 2017

This 1907 card starts out as "arrived safely" but then turns into something else.

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Tags postcard, 1907, Simpson, Bexhill-on-sea, Tunbridge Wells
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