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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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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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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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Bad Weather And Lovely Scenery In Towyn In 1912

May 4, 2021

A simple holiday postcard from one sister to another. Posted in Towyn to an address in Catford.

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Tags 1912, Postcard, Towyn, Conwy, Wood, Wells, Catford, London, Teg Annedd
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What Was In The Parcel

May 1, 2021

This is a message about a parcel and a visit to Bury posted in 1918 in Newmarket to an address in Lancing

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Tags 1918, Postcard, Lancing, Sussex, Newmarket, Suffolk, Fuller, Page
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Did B Go To War?

April 26, 2021

This card from 1912 was sent from Poplar to Grays by someone who was very keen on Betsy Merchant. She didn’t marry him though. Did he go to war and not come back? We’ll probably never know.

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Tags 1912, Postcard, Merchant, Court, Grays, Essex, Poplar, London
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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 Simple Birthday Greeting From WArlingham, Surrey in 1904

April 4, 2021

Just a simple birthday greeting

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Tags 1904, Postcard, Birthday, Windross, Ward, Warlingham, Surrey, Farnham
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1916 Birthday Card With A Jauntily Positioned Stamp

April 2, 2021

This is a simple birthday card sent in 1916 in Doncaster. The sender is unknown. The angle of the stamp suggests at a deeper relationship than just friendship.

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Tags 1916, Postcard, Birthday, Stevenson, Hodgson, Gomersall, Doncaster, Yorkshire
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Birthday Card Sent Care Of The Police Station in 1910 Acle

March 27, 2021

A birthday card for Agnes Ribbans in Acle, Norfolk in 1910. It was sent care off the Police Station not because of any wrongdoing, but because the Superintendent was her uncle.

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Tags 1910, Birthday, Postcard, Ribbans, Folkard, Acle, Norwich, Norfolk, Church, Brunning, Eaton, Albemarle
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A Card With A Story Behind It From Exning in 1917

March 20, 2021

This card from 1917 definitely has a story behind it. If only we knew what it was.

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Tags 1917, Postcard, Vickers, Hebblethwaite, Scarliff, Exning, Suffolk, Newmarket, Southwell, Nottinghamshire
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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 Donald McGill from 1918

March 5, 2021

This card was sent from Preston to Northwich. It looks like it was meant to cheer up 10 year old Gerald Forster at the Lord Nelson pub.

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Tags 1918, Postcard, Donald McGill, Mcgill, Forster, Moore, Emmett, Lord Nelson, Witton Street, Northwich, Cheshire, Preston, Lanacashire
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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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A Slice Of Social History From London in October 1909

February 22, 2021

These are two cards written by Leonard Heath to his parents in 1909. The second of the two gives a wonderful slice of social history from 1909.

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Tags 1909, Postcard, Heath, Cloke, Forest Row, Sussex, Battersea, London, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, Nimrod, Albert Dock, Blackwall Tunnel
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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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One Man Two Addresses

February 5, 2021

These 2 cards, sent 5 years apart, were both addressed to William Edwin Dixon at two different locations.

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Tags Postcard, 1914, 1919, Horsham, Sussex, Salisbury, Wiltshire, Dixon
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