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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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Postcard Collector

January 28, 2021

This is a simple card from September 1904. It allows the reader to make up their own narrative

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Tags dixon, London, Eldred, 1904, Postcard, Avanell
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Let Us Know As Soon As You Can

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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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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An Anonymous Christmas Card From 1908

December 19, 2020

It is not only unclear who sent this card in 1908 but is is also unclear who the intended recipient was as there are three candidates.

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Tags 1908, POSTCARD, Brooks, christmas, Bridport, Dorset
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Christmas Card From 1914

December 12, 2020

This is a simple Christmas card sent to Jessie Robey in Reading in 1914.

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Tags 1914, Christmas, POSTCARD, Robey, Reading, Berkshire, Margate, KEnt, Kent, Rusholme
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A Christmassy Card Rather Than A Christmas Card

December 7, 2020

This card was sent in late December 1912 and although there is a Christmassy look to it, it is actually someone asking their mother for a lift from the station.

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Tags 1912, Postcard, Christmas, Xmas, Wilshere, Holloway, Fisher, Reading, Berkshire, Bucklebury Common, Bucklebury, Newbury, Midgham
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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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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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A Postcard For Remembrance Day

November 6, 2020

This is a card sent in 1917 by an unknown young lady to a young man in the Rifle Brigade who was killed in Flanders a few weeks later. Very sad. Lest we forget.

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Tags clarke, 1917, christchurch, hampshire, eastchurch, kent, ww1
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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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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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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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Hilda Visits Llandidrod Wells in 1909

July 10, 2020

This card from 1909 was sent from Llandidrod Wells by Hilda Watkins to her brother Ivor in Sketty.

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Tags 1909, postcard, Watkins, Sketty, Swansea, Glamorgan, Llandidrod Wells, Radnorshire, Powys
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