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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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Annie Arranges To Meet Martha aka Patty

May 23, 2021

This card from 1909 is from Annie to Martha and is arranging a visit for Sunday. Edgar is coming too.

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Tags 1909, postcard, Bailey, Allman, Wood, Finney Green, Little Madeley, Newcastle Under Lyme, Staffordshire, Stoke On Trent
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Sales Report From Hanley In 1912

May 21, 2021

This card was sent by Ernest Tattersall to his wife Clara in 1912 He is a salesman on the road and he is in Hanley. She is at home in Burnley.

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Tags 1912, postcard, Hanley, Staffordshire, Burnley, Lancashire, Tattersall, Crankshaw
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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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A Classic Text From 1914

April 13, 2021

This card is a classic text sent from Fulham to Thornton Heath in 1914. It expects a reply that day.

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Tags 1914, postcard, Burley, Rosling, Fulham, London, Thornton Heath, Surrey
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Its A Case Of A Will

April 8, 2021

The message on this 1914 card sent to George Davison in 1914 says it all

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Tags 1914, postcard, usworth, durham, sunderland, fence houses, Davison
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A Prophetic Birthday Card

March 15, 2021

In 1913 this birthday card was sent to Clara Woolham in Bradford and the sender hoped that she would live to 100. She actually reached 105.

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Tags 1913, postcard, birthday, Woolham, Bradford, Yorkshire, Lawson
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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 Thunderstorm In Carlisle, August 1909

March 3, 2021

This card was posted in Carlisle in August 1909 to an address in Kensington. The recipient, Amelia Wills Collings was in service. The writer does not have much to say apart from the weather report.

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Tags 1909, postcard, Carlisle, Cumbria, kensington, london, Collings, Maylin, Stoke Fleming, Devon
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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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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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Sister To Sister Mirror Writing in 1906 Shropshire

November 12, 2020

This card was sent by Lilian Pugh to her sister Caroline in 1906 Shropshire. It uses mirror writing to obscure the message which suggests that Caroline is unhappy.

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Tags 1906, postcard, Pugh, Shropshire, Salop, Baschurch, Longnor, Church Stretton, Lawley Farm
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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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Birthday In Kings Lynn

October 4, 2020

This is a simple birthday card from 1911 for Priscilla Langley.

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Tags 1911, postcard, langley, kings lynn, norfolk, peterborough, Cambridgeshire
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Drayton Is Much As Usual

September 5, 2020

This 1926 is an update on life in Market Drayton for Kathleen Mawdesley who is living away.

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Tags 1926, postcard, Mawdesley, Golders Green, London, Market Drayton, Shropshire
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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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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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Get Well Soon in 1904

August 3, 2020

This card was sent in 1904 to Bertha Leach wishing her sick husband Arthur well. Sadly within 2 years he had died.

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Tags 1904, postcard, Leach, Parrott, Harborne, Birmingham, warwickshire
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Happy Birthday to Rose Mesny in 1905

July 24, 2020

This postcard was sent as a birthday card in Jersey in 1905. It was sent by Ada Milton to her niece Rose Mesny

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Tags 1905, postcard, Mesny, Leslie, Milton, Jersey, St Helier, Channel Islands
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Happy Birthday Frederick Arnold

July 15, 2020

Its 1909 and someone is wishing Frederick Arnold a Happy Birthday in Walthamstow

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Tags 1909, postcard, Birthday, Arnold, Walthamstow, london
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