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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.