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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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Is This A Love Letter?

July 19, 2021

This 1909 card is an example of one where the message cannot be read clearly. However it appears to be a transcription of a song dating from the 1820s and was presumably intended as a token of Thomas Tranter’s love for Nellie Blythe.

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Tags 1909, Postcard, Blyth, Tranter, Coventry, Warwickshire
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Dora Reassures Lily

June 12, 2021

In case Lily Jameson was worried about her house animals while she was away, her sister-in-law Dora reassures her that they are serene in 1909.

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Tags 1909, Taunton, Somerset, Birmingham, Warwickshire, Jameson, Hobbiss, Derrington
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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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Dora Admonishes Mabel For Failing To Write Home

June 11, 2021

In 1906 Dora Jameson wrote to her sister Mabel and complained that she had no written. Mabel was probably having too much fun.

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Tags 1906, Postcard, Jameson, Ealing, London, Birmingham, Warwickshire, Tristram, Hobbiss
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One Week In Birmingham

May 15, 2021

In this card from 1917 Frederick Packham tells his wife that he is OK on his trip to Birmingham.

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Tags 1917, POSTCARD, Birmingham, Warwickshire, Maidstone, Kent, Packham, Harmer
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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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Gladys Wishes Her Half-Sister A Happy Birthday in 1923

August 8, 2020

This curious looking birthday card was sent in 1923.

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Tags 1923, postcard, birthday, Thornton, Macey, Warminster, Wiltshire, Stratford-upon-avon, Warwickshire
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Early August 1929 In Liverpool Was Rainy

September 6, 2019

This card was posted in Liverpool in Early August 1929 and the weather report was rainy.

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Tags 1929, Postcard, Smallwood, Liverpoool, Lancashire, Small Heath, Birmingham, Warwickshire
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Nellie Was A Fancy Draper

June 10, 2019

This card was sent to twice married Nellie Egerton, a fancy draper, in 1909.

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Tags Postcard, 1909, Egerton, Aston, Birmingham, Warwickshire
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