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Chicken Pox Breaks Out in Hastings 1914

June 27, 2021

This 1914 card is all about the sender and nothing much to do with chicken pox.

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Tags 1914, Postcard, Hastings, Sussex, Ticehurst, West Lymden, Laton Road, Mountside School, Duke, Macan, Horrocks
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You Would Understand If You Knew All

May 11, 2021

Hints at secrets in the card from 1913 but nothing revealed.

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Tags 1913, postcard, nunhead, london, Horsham, Sussex, Mansbridge, Stacey, Wickersham, Pickett
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What Was In The Parcel

May 1, 2021

This is a message about a parcel and a visit to Bury posted in 1918 in Newmarket to an address in Lancing

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Tags 1918, Postcard, Lancing, Sussex, Newmarket, Suffolk, Fuller, Page
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R Watts Promoting Their Preacher Father

March 12, 2021

This card could be interpreted in a sinister way.

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Tags 1912, postcard, James, Worthing, Sussex, Luton, Bedfordshire, Watts
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A Slice Of Social History From London in October 1909

February 22, 2021

These are two cards written by Leonard Heath to his parents in 1909. The second of the two gives a wonderful slice of social history from 1909.

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Tags 1909, Postcard, Heath, Cloke, Forest Row, Sussex, Battersea, London, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, Nimrod, Albert Dock, Blackwall Tunnel
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One Man Two Addresses

February 5, 2021

These 2 cards, sent 5 years apart, were both addressed to William Edwin Dixon at two different locations.

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Tags Postcard, 1914, 1919, Horsham, Sussex, Salisbury, Wiltshire, Dixon
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Difficult Handwriting in 1906

January 15, 2021

This card is difficult to read. It is probably from one sister to another, but maybe not.

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Tags 1906, postcard, Vine, Balcombe, Sussex, Holmden, Alwen, Edenbridge, KEnt
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Glorious Weather In Eastbourne in September 1928

October 31, 2020

This is a straightforward holiday card posted in Eastbourne in 1928. Sadly some of the message is too faded to read.

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Tags Meaden, 1928, postcard, Sains, Sussex, Deptford, London
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Wet In Brighton In February 1904

August 26, 2020

This card was sent by Mary Jane Coates to her sister Annie in 1904. It contains some weather information and also, strangely, information about staffing at a school in Brighton.

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Tags Coates, 1904, postcard, Startforth, Barnard Castle, Durham, Teasdale, Brighton, Sussex, Horne
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Struggling To Get A Cup Of Tea in 1917 Chichester

May 20, 2020

This card was sent in 1917 by Lydia Upcott nee Platt to her sister Alice McEvoy nee Platt bemoaning the fact that she can’t get a cup of tea.

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Tags 1917, Chichester, Sussex, Wandsworth, London, SW18, McEvoy, Platt, Upcott, Bird
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