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January 21, 2021

There is a degree of urgency about this card posted in Bilston in 1908

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Tags 1908, Postcard, Watkins, Heeley, Gibbons, Winson Green, Birmingham, warwickshire, Bilston
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1904 Mirror Writing In Ashow Warwickshire

November 23, 2020

This card was sent from Churchill, Oxfordshire to Ashow, Warwickshire in 1904. The unknown sender used mirror writing to obscure the message which on the face of it looks quite innocent, but context is everything and we don’t know the full story.

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Tags Stow, Willifer, Ashow, warwickshire, Studley, Netherstead, 1904, POSTCARD, Mirror Writing
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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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Have you seen "92" lately?

March 18, 2019

This card from 1908 is a mystery, or several mysteries. Who is Q? What are “51” and “92”. What does Emily Shorthouse like? So many questions. So few answers.

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Tags postcard, 1908, Shorthouse, Leicester, leicestershire, birmingham, warwickshire
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