T The top magazine for collectors of old and modern postcards worldwide! It’s a month of top postcard fairs - big weekend events from Exeter to Leeds via Reading, Birmingham, Twickenham & Central London Also inside: Hollywood postcard magic Comic strip in Wiltshire pub Ships of the Orient Line Bournemouth bicentenary Desert Island Postcards and lots more articles, plus news, auctions, moderns, postbag and events diary PPM re v isits M a n che ste r’s B e ll e Vue a m use m e nt pa rk July 2010 no. 375 £2.60 Ar t d e co fro m S w ed en
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TThe top magazine for collectors of old and modern postcards worldwide!
It’s a month of top postcard fairs - big weekend events from Exeter toLeeds via Reading, Birmingham, Twickenham & Central London
Also inside: � Hollywood postcard magic� Comic strip in Wiltshire
pub� Ships of the Orient Line� Bournemouth bicentenary� Desert Island Postcards
and lots more articles, plus news,auctions, moderns, postbag
and events diary
PPM revisits
Manchester’s
Belle Vue
amusementpark
July 2010 no. 375
£2.60
Art deco from Sweden
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Jotter’s guide to Bournemouth hotels
The artist Walter Hayward Young produced a long seriesof hotel views for London postcard publisher ArthurBurkart & Co., including many Bournemouth hotels. Thesewere used by the hotels as advertising cards. Above: oneof two views of the Branksome Tower, which boasted itwas the only hotel in the town “with grounds extending tothe seashore”. This card was posted to Shepherd’s Bush
at Christmas 1912
Above and below: inside andoutside the Durley Dean Hydro. Another card showed
a scene in the lounge. Right: The Royal Exeter. These delightful hotel cards arepacked with detail, here showing strolling guests and agame of croquet on the lawns. Inset views are an extra fea-ture of many of the cards in the series, which runs to 100highly collectable postcards.Below right: Hotel Burlington in Boscombe
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PPM Features July 2010Postcard signposts - Liz McKernan checks out her
directions 10Topographical focus - John Garrett celebrates
Bournemouth’s bicentenary 14A postcard from Vladivostok - Philip Robinson
investigates a romance 18Desert Island Postcards - Julia Sayers is cast adrift
22Belle Vue: big and bold - Norman Ellis looks for
amusement in Manchester 24The magic of Hollywood - Philip Yaxley on the
bewitching boulevard 29The Swedish art deco master - Michael Hauskeller
profiles Einar Nerman and his postcards 32Ships of The Orient Line - Alan Leonard with more
high seas postcard adventures 36A classic coaching inn and its comic postcard wall
paintings - Andrew Swift uncovers more than he bargained for in deepest Wiltshire 44
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Picture ad (modern cardsonly) b/w £9.50 col. £15VAT is included in the classi-fied rates. This is not applic-able to advertisers outsideEurope.
ISSN 0144-8137Views expressed by con-tributors are not necessar-ily those of the editor andpublisher.
We check all advertise-ments, but cannot beresponsible for changes ofdates, failure of individu-als to answer letters, etc.We shall of course bepleased to follow up anyproblems readers mayexperience.
Readers writing to PPM forinformation should enclosean S.A.E.
Please make out chequesto ‘Reflections of a BygoneAge.’
Early postingdates
Latest additions to ourongoing listing are as fol-lows:
Places* Aberdeen 24 July 1898Auchtermuchty 7 Feb 1900* Banchory 15 Mar 1900* Inverness 24 Aug 1898* Reeth 31 Dec 1902* Rochester 21 Mar 1900* Weymouth 16 Aug 1897
Subjects*Lighthouses 29 Dec 1890
* indicates an earlier datethan previously recorded.
If you can contributeto this feature, please sendphotocopy of both sides ofany submitted postcard.The important side is thepicture - the location of thepostmark is irrelevant. Thelatest updated listingappears in 2010 PicturePostcard Annual.
Many of you are kindenough to contribute tothis feature with updatesor suggested new loca-tions. Where these are vil-lages or hamlets withsmall populations a centu-ry ago we tend not toinclude these unless thepublication date of thepostcard is particularlyearly i.e. 1902 or earlier.Virtually everywhere hadpostcards available by late1903 or 1904, and if wewere to include every loca-tion, our list wouldbecome an unwieldygazetteer. So if a date yousent hasn’t been included,that is likely to be the rea-son.
Earliest Lighthouse postcard? This German card shows thelighthouse at Weser. It is postmarked 29 December 1890which is almost 12 years earlier than the previous earliestrecorded date. These cards were used to report shippingpassing the lighthouse on the way into the port of Bre-merhaven. In this case, the imminent arrival of the Chely-dra from New Orleans is reported to the shipping agent inport. This enabled them to make preparations for unload-ing cargo as well as informing those meeting passengers.
Arrival dates could vary consider-ably as steamhad not yettaken overc o m p l e t e l yfrom sail.
Top collections tofeature at auction
Two of the best collec-tions of picture postcardsin their respective fieldsthat have ever beenasembled will be sold inthe next few months.Jackson’s, of Cedar Falls,Iowa, in the U.S.A. areoffering at the end ofAugust the 40,000+ KenOden collection ofAfrican-American andAfrican postcards andephemera, formed overtwo decades and repre-senting over 5,500 pub-lishers and 125 differentcategories. There areover 150 postcards ofJosephine Baker, forinstance. She was a blackwoman who was thebiggest Europeancelebrity of her time, butridiculed in her nativeAmerica. Real photo-graphic cards - often ofdisturbing subjects - fea-ture large in the collec-tion, which we’ll previewfully next month. Jack-son’s advert can befound on pages 48-49.The other major auctionis of the Karl Jaeger col-lection - see next page.
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� Newsdesk �
Jean Thomas from Rob Roy Albums married Cliff Davison a sunny day in May. Cliff, who lists motor carsamong his interests, has become a familiar face atmajor postcard fairs over the past couple of years.Dealers at Woking Postcard Fair contributed to a cardand present for the couple (photo: Dave Davis)
Collectors enjoy the opulence of Cheltenham’s PittvillePump Rooms at the Whit Monday postcard fair (photo:John Gallagher)
Comic postcards in Tate exposure
Saucy seaside postcards form part of a celebrationof British comic art in an exhibition at Tate Britain inLondon that runs until 5 September. Titled ‘Rude Bri-tannia’, it features a wide array of paintings, sculp-tures, film and photography, portraying a rich histo-ry of cartooning and visual jokes. Various roomshave approriate titles: Absurd features Alice in Won-derland illustrations, Bawdy contains McGill master-pieces, and Politics has plenty of cartoons bringingpublic figures down to size. � The Funeral ServiceJournal of June 2010 hadan eight-page article aboutthe centenary of EdwardVII’s funeral in May 2010.The piece was illustrated byeight contemporary post-cards.
� Card Times, the maga-zine for cigarette and tradecard collectors, is going bi-monthly from September, amove forced on editor andpublisher David Stuckey by“rising production costsand postal charges and alsoby the current state of thehobby, which, although stillbuoyant and enthusiastic, isnot as big as it once was.We feel it can no longer jus-tify a monthly publication”.
� Belgium’s Mannekin Pispostcard club is to operateon a more modest level infuture. Instead of regularmonthly meetings, it willhold four small club fairs ayear at Woluwe St-Lambert- next one is 26th Septem-ber. If all goes well, therecould be a bigger interna-tional fair again in Etterbeeknext June.
� The rock group ManicStreet Preachers haveannounced details of a newUK tour to coincide with therelease of their forthcomingnew album (their 10th),which is excitingly titledPostcards from a YoungMan. It’s due out in Septem-ber.
� Royal Mail’s newspaperThe Courier flagged up thefact that more than 100celebrities had written ‘apostcard for Cumbria’ toboost tourism in the regionafter last November’sfloods. Judi Dench, TessDaly and Anthony WorrallThompson all penned mes-sages of support, Tess writ-ing “I’ve loved the Lake Dis-trict all my life!!!”. Sadly,Cumbria was dealt anotherblow on June 3rd when ataxi driver went berserkfrom Whitehaven inland toBoot.
� Rikki Hyde Fairs are once again giving a set of Dalkeithpostcards, courtesy of Philip Howard from Dalkeith Pub-lishing, to the first 100 people through the door at one oftheir events. The fair this time is the 2010 BournemouthStamp & Postcard Festival at Pelhams Park Hall on Satur-day 10th July. Around 24 dealers will be present. TheDalkeith set on offer is S9, Southern Railway Shipping,featuring designs by Frank Burridge, who died on May30th, and whose obituary appears on page 56.
The South of EnglandSpring postcard fair at Wok-ing Leisure Centre saw anencouragingly large atten-dance, with lots of briskbusiness taking place onboth days.
‘Unique’ collection for sale inSalzburg
A 30,000- strong collection formed over 25 years byKarl Jaeger from Bath is to be auctioned by MarkusWeissenbock of Salzburg, Austria, in October. It rep-resents about 80% of Karl’s entire collection - he felthe had to trim it down a bit! - and the 200 albums arestrong in fine Judaica cards, Asia, South America,China and Hong Kong, with an extra helping ofbeautiful Venetian postcards. Subjects includeadvertising in the fields of food and drink, tobaccoand animals - and there’s some choice ephemera,too. Markus will be at The Picture Postcard Show inLondon from 2nd-4th September promoting the cat-alogue and showing a selection of the postcards.This quite unique sale is likely to attract worldwideinterest and should be one of the highlights of post-card collecting history. Karl came to postcards viathe well-trodden route of stamps and postal historywhen he realised that many of his postal history sup-pliers were also postcard collectors. He soonrealised that picture postcards were “much morefun!”
� Postcard clubs can as usual order free tickets tothe Picture Postcard Show in London for the secondand third days (September 3rd & 4th). Contact DaveDavis at P.O. Box 32, Southend-on-Sea, Essex SS13QJ or by email at [email protected]
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An exhibition of a collection of postcards andprinted ephemera of Hopton, Suffolk, washeld in the Parish Church at Hopton in earlyMay. The aim of the exhibition was to raisemoney to help fund the building of toilets inthe church. All the cards were scanned to A4size and the scans laminated, making the dis-play more visually appealing and eliminatingsecurity problems. During the three-dayevent the exhibition was constantly busy,and a great deal of interest was generated. Inaddition, over £700 was raised for the churchproject. A DVD of over 100 postcards fromthe collection was professionally compiledand a local musician friend composed andplayed the background music. Proceeds fromthe sale of the DVD are being given to theCardiomyopathy Association in memory ofKate Trevarthen, the daughter of friends,who was diagnosed with this condition in2000 and died in 2002. A display about thework of the Cardiomyopathy Associationwas also mounted at the exhibition. Copiesof the DVD are available for £14.99, postfree, from Richard Spurgin, 1 Willow Walk,Harleston, Norfolk IP20 9DY. Please makecheques payable to Mr. D. Savage.
Postcard Exhibitionhelps Charities
Verona fair a big hitItaly’s top collectors’ fair, Veronafil, had its 114th outing in May,with stamps, coins, postcards, posters and small collectables intwo very large exhibition halls (below). Palle Petersen andKirsten Andersen (Postcardenmark) set off from a wet and coldScandinavia to arrive a daylater to scorching tempera-tures in North Italy. The eventeffectively lasts four days,with the first a set-up/tradesituation, though the scram-ble for entry on that day wasquite lively. Demand initiallyand understandably was forItalian topographical post-cards, but then a wide mix ofsubjects was requested. Thefirst day of public opening(above) resembled “crowdsentering a football stadium”,said Palle, and the mix ofdealers was reminiscent ofLondon’s Picture PostcardShow, with Joseph Vastafrom New York, Ingrid Lorenzand Stephan Geis of Frank-furt, Coll’ex from France,Milos Oliva from Prague,Rosina Stevens from Englandand Krause Postkarten ofBerlin. Auctioneer MarkusWeissenbock of Salzburg wasalso there, promoting the30,000-strong Karl Jaeger col-lection that he is selling inOctober.
There were, Palleassured us, other delights ofthe event, apart from a stay inthe wonderful town of Verona.“Our neighbouring stallhold-ers, an Italian couple, hadfriends from a valley on theSwiss border visit on the Satur-day. They brought cooledchampagne and a home-madedelicatessen of all sorts fromthe valley: bread, Italiansausages, smoked ham andlard, cheese selection: goat,blue and brie. We were invitedto join in... what a treat! But didwe miss a few customers in themeantime?”. The final day, Sat-urday, concluded at 1pm, butthe four-hour session was goodfor Postcardenmark - thoughsome other dealers had left bythen.
* Veronafil takes place eachNovember and May.
� June’s edition of the Railway Postcard Col-lectors Circle magazine has a feature on an11-mile stretch of railway in Banffshireknown as ’The Whisky Line’. It opened in1862, closed in 1991, and now operates as apreserved line. Author Douglas Yelland tellsits history and looks at its postcards - achecklist is supplied. Furness Railway exhibi-tion postcards are also featured, along withthe magazine’s very useful monthly list ofnewly-published railway postcards.
� Edition no. 76 of The Welsh Ladynewsletter focuses on ladies by waterfalls allover the principality.
� Transporter bridges pop up in the latestissue of Gongoozler, magazine of the CanalCard Collectors Circle. Bill Mander revealedthat only 19 were ever built, including five inBritain. One of these was the little-knownbridge at Devil’s Dyke, near Brighton, whichwas used from 1894 to 1909.
Enjoying Italy: dealers Gisela andJorg Spevacek from Bavaria, andIrene and Marc Lefebvre from Paris(all photos: Palle Petersen)
� Camden Local Studies & Archives Centre at HolbornLibrary, London WC1X has just received a collection ofpostcards formed by local woman Nancy sternberg inthe early 20th century.
� Judith Holder of JH Cards from Bradford would liketo thank everyone - customers and fellow-dealers - for allthe kind messages and cards she has received since herrecent operation. Judith promises to be back in circula-tion soon!
� A number of cards were apparently stolen from deal-er Mike Felmore’s stock at June’s Haywards Heath fair.One was a Fry’s representative’s advert card with a pic-ture of a cocoa tin on the address side. Others includeda number of distinctive cards advertising Alpha Cakesanimal feed, with pictures of livestock.
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� What’s on - Postcard Events Diary �
Key to number of postcard dealers atfairs:BOLD CAPS - 25 or more dealers (40+if in red) Bold type - 16-24 dealersMedium type - 7-15 dealersMedium italics - 3-6 dealers* evening fairsSaturdays indicated by �Three non-specialist dealers are calculat-ed to be equivalent to one specialistpostcard dealer for the purposes of theDiary. Collectors unfamiliar with a partic-ular event might still be wise to checkwith the organisers about the exact num-ber of PC dealers present before makinga long journey. Great care is taken to make sure that theinformation of this Diary is accurate, butthe publishers can accept no responsibil-ity for errors or omissions.
29 Stockport, Masonic Hall (SC) 30 Digbeth, Irish Centre (AMP)
�3 SPALDING, Castle Sports Complex(DC)
HAYWARDS HEATH, Clair Hall (BF)Motherwell, St Mary’s Church Hall
(CF) Littlehampton, United Church Hall
(CR)London, Charing Cross Market (RB)Beckenham, Azelia Hall (P&R)Farnham, Maltings (D)Swindon, Western Community Hall
(SSPF)4 READING, Rivermead Leisure
Centre (RPC)LEEDS, Pudsey Civic Hall (KSG)Carlisle, Houghton Village Hall (CF)
6 NOTTINGHAM, Harvey Hadden Sports Centre* (R)
7 Croydon, St.George’s Church Hall(PD)
Neath, Town Hall (DCF)8 Cardiff, Wesley Church Hall (DCF)
Centre (AS)Bournemouth, Pelhams Park (RH)Colwyn Bay, Eirias High School
(NWSF)Wellington, Civic Centre (TPS) Chichester, Stockbridge Hall (CR)London, Charing Cross Market (RB) Cardiff, City Hall (MJP)East Grinstead, De La Warr Hall (JT)
11 BIRMINGHAM, Motorcycle Museum(AMP)
DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange(DPC)Wymondham, Ketts Park Community
Centre (H)Worthing, Heene Community Centre
(CR)Patchway, Community College (KN)
16 TWICKENHAM, Stoop Rugby Ground(SPPF)
�17 TWICKENHAM, Stoop Rugby Ground (SPPF)
CHESTER, Northgate Arena (NPF)Glastonbury, Town Hall (BR)Northampton, Abbey Centre (RF)Bridlington, Emmanuel Parish
Church Hall (SS)Colchester, Marks Tey Parish Hall
(TM) Hastings, Christ Church Hall (CR)Powick, Village Hall (AMP)Midhurst, Grange Market (GCA)
18 Horsham, Village Hall (CR)Ludlow, St. John Ambulance Hall
(AMP)Herne, Parish Hall (RC)
21 Ardingly, Showground (IACF)�24 HORSHAM, Forest Community
School (WPC)Durham, County Hall (BRF)Sittingbourne, Carmel Hall (CR)London, Charing Cross Market (RB)Hove, St. Leonards Church Hall (EL)
Cardiff, Wesley Church Hall (DCF)3 LONDON, Royal Horticultural Hall
(PTA)� 4 LONDON, Royal Horticultue Hall
(PTA)EXETER, Clyst Vale Community
Centre (AS)HAYWARDS HEATH, Clair Hall (BF) Beckenham, Azelia Hall (P&R)Preston, Barton Village Hall (PPS)Farnham, Maltings (D)Hove, St. Leonards Church Hall (EL) Swindon, Western Community Hall
(SSPF)London, Charing Cross Market (RB)
5 LEEDS, Pudsey Civic Hall (KSG) Twyford, Loddon Hall (NB)Mountnessing, Village Hall (HLincoln, Showground (J&K)Yeovil, Westlands Centre (PF)
6 NOTTINGHAM, Harvey Hadden Sports Centre* (R)
8 Ardingly, Showground (IACF)9 Prestwick, R.A.F.A. Club (CF)
Plymouth, Guildhall (PF)10 Clyst St George, Parish Hall (PF)0� 11 Lostwithiel, Community Centre
(RJ)Northampton, Abbey Centre (RF)Colwyn Bay, Eirias High School
(NWSF)Aberdeen, Queen’s Cross Church
Hall (COR)London, Charing Cross Market (RB)East Grinstead, De La Warr Hall (JT) Eastbourne, St. Mary’s Church Hall
(CR) Powick, Parish Hall (AMP)
12 PENKRIDGE, Leisure Centre (AMP)Chichester, Westgate Centre (E)Worthing, Heene Community Centre
Blackadder Church Hall (BRF)Maidstone, Grove Green
Community Centre (MaPC)Colchester, Marks Tey Parish Hall
(TM)Hastings, Christ Church Hall (CR)Glasgow, Renfield Centre (COR)Midhurst, Grange Market (GCA)London, Charing Cross Market (RB)Margate, Utd Reform Church Hall
(CB)19 Herne, Parish Hall (RC)23 Cirencester, Bingham Hall (AMP)24 WOKING, Leisure Centre (SPPF)�25 WOKING, Leisure Centre (SPPF)
EXHIBITIONSUntil 24 July, LONDON, Brunei Gallery. Postcards of
Armenian life on the borders of modern Turkey at start of 20th century. 020 7898 4915.
2-4 Sept LONDON, Royal Horticultural Hall (Picture Postcard Show). London Life on postcards.
Until 5 Sept LONDON, Tate Britain. Rude Britannia - Britain’s cartoon heritage.
Until 31 Oct SOUTHWOLD, Museum. Reg Carter comic postcards.
International DiaryThis is a selected list of fairs outside Britain featuring post-cards in worthwhile numbers. The telephone number quot-ed in each instance is the internal one in that country. If youare travelling some distances to attend, it would be sensibleto check details with the organiser.
July 10 YORK (PA, USA), Aldersgate Church 717.767.4265July 25 LES SABLES D’OLONNE, Salle Audubon
2.51.33.50.80July 25 MONT ALBERT (Victoria, Australia), Our Holy
Redeemer Catholic School 9803.4396Aug 7 HAVRE DE GRACE (MD, U.S.A.), Community
Centre 410.642.3581Aug 22 SYDNEY, Imar Community Hall at Croydon
2.9268.2816
Fair organisersAMP AMP Fairs 01283-820151APS Alfreton PS 01773-541694AS Anne Scott 01395-270322AW Alan Watson 0131-456-6412BEPC Bury St Edmunds PC
01787-370406BF Beacon Fairs 01892-662132BPC Bristol PC 0117-9665071BPS Barry PS 01446-741026 BR Barrie Rollinson 01278-445497 BRF Bass Rock Fairs 01368-860365BRSC Bognor Regis SC 01243-837590C&EK Canterbury & EK 01843-862707CB Clive Baker 01843-862707CF Caledonia Fairs 01436-671429CH Colin Harris 02392-615380CIA Ch.Island Antique 07797777709 CJ C.J. Fairs 01782-611621CN Chad Neighbor 01674-832823COR Cornucopia 01382-224946CPC Cotswold PC 01285-655532CR Chris Rapley 01795-478175D David Carr 01252-745444DC David Calvert 01507-480280DCF Dragon Coll. Fairs01446-741026DG Denny Gibson 01677-422863DL D. Luxford 01736-786068DPC Dorset PC 01305-871629E Emmott Prom 01243-788596EL Eric Langdon 01273-514733ES Ephemera Soc. 01923-829079FF Fairdeal Fairs 01732-463575
FS Felicity Smith 01296-651283F&WM Ferndown & West Moors
Philatelic & PC 01202- 871624 F&WPC Frinton & Walton PC
01255-674134 GCA Grange Com.Ass 01730-816841GS Great Southern 07939-302425H Ray How 01702-544632HF Howard Fairs 0161-4284191HP Helen Prescott 01204-418791 HoE Heart of Eng. PC 01926-854524HPS Huntingdon PS 01480-468037IACF Int Antique/Coll 01636-702326 IPM IPM Promotions 020-82029080JT John Terry 01342-326317J&K J&K Fairs 01472-813281 KN Kevin Noble 0117-9021134KRM Kidderminster 01562-825316KSG KSG Promotions 01723-363665MaPC Maidstone PC 01622-717037 MEPC Mid-Essex PC 01245-362201MJP M.J.Promotions 01792-415293 NB Neil Baldry 01628-622603 NIPC N.Ireland PC 028-4062-2022NPC Norfolk PC 01263-825053NPF NorthernPC Fairs 01244535578NSCF Nat. Spec. Collectors Fairs
01869-600236NWCF North West CF 07973-219394PD Peter Duncan 01444-482620PF Phoenix Fairs 01761-414304PN Philip Nevitsky 0161-228-2947 PP Popplestone PC 02380-446143PPC Plymouth PC 01752-775289
PPS Preston PS 01772-713917P&R P&R Fairs 020-84623753R Reflections 0115-9374079RB Rodney Bolwell 01483-281771RC Ralph Carter 01227-362439RF RF Postcards 01268-794886RH Rikki Hyde 01202-303053RJ Richard Jones 01752-269003RPC Reading PC Club 01628-637868RPH Redpath Phil. 01258-880878RPS Rayleigh PS 01702-544632 RRPC Red Rose PC 01995-670625RS Richard Stenlake 01290-551122RTW Royal Tun.Wells 01892-655914SC Simon Collyer 07966-565151ShPS Shropshire PS 01743-860910SPPF Specialist PC&PF 0208-8925712SPS Swindon PS 01793-728330SRP SRP Fairs 01322-662729SS Simon Smith 01723 363665SSPF Swindon St/PF 01793-528664SuPS Sussex PS 01323-438964 SWPC South Wales PC 01633-412598T&D T&D Bradwell 01643-704649TM Trevor Mills 01702-478846TPC Torbay PC 01803-201908 TPS Telford PS 01952-223926TN Tim Notley 01932-341527V Varykino 07836747166 V&A V & A Fairs 01938-580438 WPC Wealden PC 01293-786419WLPC West London PC 0208-892-5712WPS Worcester PS 01299-824829
Sittingbourne, Carmel Hall (CRBarry, Barry Boys School (CD)London, Charing Cross Market (RB)Bath/Bristol, Saltford Hall (KN)Bournemouth, Annunciation Hall
(PF)London, Electric Ballroom (PN)
26 RUGBY, Benn Hall (AMP)LONDON BLOOMSBURY, Royal
National Hotel (IPM)Porlock, Village Hall (T&D)
28 Stockport, Masonic Hall (AMP)29 Digbeth, Irish Centre (AMP)30 Ripley, Rose Lane Scout Hut* (TN)
� Cheque guarantee cardsmay not be valid after June2011 when the currentscheme is due to end. Cus-tomers may have to rethinktheir cash/cheque spend atfairs next summer,though the majority oftransactions at post-card fairs tend to takeplace between peoplewho know each otherwell.
September fairsFair organis-ers: send usfull details ofyour eventsfor inclusionin this diary.Copy dead-line is 10thJuly for theAugust 2010issue.
PLEASE MENTION PICTURE POSTCARD
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Sorry we had to cancel our January event here due to the weather, but this isthe replacement show that we promised... 31,000 people have been to our fairsat Twickenham since we started them in 1992, and you can see why! With free car parking and clear RAC signposting outside, a great selection ofpostcards and ephemera inside, plus two days for buying, a free 12-page programme, and an elegant catering area, the show is a surefire winner! And to make it even better, we’re now introducing a modern postcard fair as anextra attraction on Saturday, too. Unmissable!
STEPHAN GEIS (Germany)HELEN TASKER-POLAND (Hants)CAMPBELL McCUTCHEON (Glos)STEVE PRESCOTT (Cornwall)DAVID TAYLOR (Cornwall)BEVERLEY WRIGHT (Berkshire)ELM POSTCARDS (London)PETER COOPER (Herts)LESLEY DAVIES (Sussex)MICHAEL GOLDSMITH (Middx)DEREK POPPLESTONE (Hants)ANDREW BOWKER (Hants)JOHN RENDLE (Kent)GORDON COLLIER (Berkshire)
ERROL McCREEDY (N. Ireland)DEREK WARRY (Wales)MARK POWELL (Cheshire)PETER JOHNSON (Somerset)EPHEMERA WAREHOUSE (Yks)JANET GARNISH (Dorset)PETER LINDFIELD (Sussex)CHRIS BREACH (Wilts)HELEN PRESCOTT (Lancs)PETER DUNCAN (Sussex)ROB ROY ALBUMS (Kent)BRIAN GIRLING (Middx)COLIN CLISSOLD (Sussex)RODNEY BAKER (Hants)
WAYNE NORTHEAST (Wilts)CHRISTINE HARRIS (Middx)PAUL NEWMAN (Somerset)JULIAN DUNN (Surrey)MIKE HUDDY (Bucks)PETER LINCOLN (Somerset)MIKE HEARD (Derbys)DAVID CALVERT (Lincs)MARK BOWN (Derbys)GRAHAM RICHARDSON (Oxon)ALAN BOWER (Yorks)MICHAEL COX (Suffolk)JOHN KIDSON (Sussex)GRAHAM BARSON (Surrey)and more to come!
UP TO 80 STALLS WITH A STAR-STUDDED CAST LIST INCLUDING
TWICKENHAMPOSTCARD & PAPER FAIR
THE STOOP RUGBY STADIUMLANGHORN DRIVE, TWICKENHAM TW2 7SX
(ON THE A316, OPPOSITE TWICKENHAM STADIUM)
INCLUDING OUR 15th MODERN POSTCARD FAIR(though our first at Twickenham!)
An extra Saturday Attraction (Stalls £34)* EASY TO REACH FROM M25 (EXIT 12 ONTO M3), M3/A316 AND M4
* RAC SIGNPOSTED * FREE CAR PARKS
* TWICKENHAM RAIL STATION 1400 YARDS 8 PROFESSIONAL CATERING
And if you come on the first day, then we let you in free of charge on the second!
Boomerang Mediacontributed to thisyear’s Football WorldCup postcard outputwith a clever set ofseven featuring cartoonsof top players. Titled‘World Cup Heroes bySimon Evans’, the setfeatures England’sWayne Rooney (styled‘Saviour’), Brazil’s Kaka(Magician), Ivory Coast’sDidier Drogba (Warrior),Cristiano Ronaldo of Por-tugal (Trickster), Spain’sFernando Torres (Assas-sin), Frank Ribery ofFrance (L’Enchanteur) andLionel Messi of Argentina(Genius). The cards weregiven away free in cinemaracks.
May’s Bloomsburyfair provided a World Cupbonus with an attractivedesign incorporating amap and badges.
� There’s more Modernsnews on page 51.
� Moderns News �
AND IT’S JUST SO EASY TO REACH
THE STOOP RUGBY GROUNDLANGHORN DRIVE, TWICKENHAM, TW2 7SX
EASY TO REACH BY ROAD. From West. 8 miles from exit 12 on M25. At the 2nd roundabout youcome to on M3/A316 (with Twickenham Stadium on your left) get in right hand lane and go right roundtill you are travelling in reverse direction on dual carriageway. Turn left after 450 yards (2nd turning) intoLanghorn Drive. From East. Cross river from Richmond on A316 and at 3rd roundabout (withTwickenham Stadium to right), keep in left handlane, and turn left after 450 yards into LanghornDrive (2nd turning). EASY TO REACH BY RAIL
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16. Flower shop17. Say NO to Tesco!18. Hardware/Pharmacy shops19. University of the Third Age20. Tennis Club21. Scouts22. British Geological Survey23. Butcher’s shop24. Guides25. Football club26. Sainsbury’s advert27. Outdoor heating business ad.
CCollecting ThemesSignposts
Liz McKernan points the way to the right direction
Signposts
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I took a chance and an hourand a half later could seethat I had indeed arrived inthe right town, but it wasan anxious walk as I metnobody to enquire.
Signposts are to befound depicted on both oldand modern cards and thesubject overlaps another ofmy pet subjects – Frontiers.One of my grandfathersworked for Customs andExcise, so you see it is inthe blood!
As someone with a poor sense of direction, informa-tive signposts are always welcome. However, theyare not always of use. I well remember attending acollectors’ fair in Normandy which was way ‘out oftown’ and deciding to walk back as it was all down-hill and a pleasant spring day. Coming to a cross-roads, the only sign I could see indicated ‘CentreVille’ but did not specify which town! Havingreached the fair by taxi I had no idea whether thiswas the town from which I had started out or per-haps another one nearby.
A signpost innorth-west Pakistan also with themileage given to various other Pakistani towns – and alsoLondon – Quetta is situated near the border withAfghanistan. Fort Sandeman was named after RobertSandeman who was made agent to the Governor Generalin Baluchistan in 1877.
(below) ‘The First andLast Sign Post’ in Englandis situated at Lands End inCornwall. The signpostshows that it is 291 milesaway from London and3147 miles away from NewYork. The postcard wasprobably bought at the‘First and Last House inEngland’ on the right in the
distance.
(above) An attractive Swisssignpost in Brienz, a smallvillage on the shores ofLake Brienz. The village isfamous for its wood-carv-ings hence the many deco-rative signposts there.
Another frontiersignpost this time nearer home. Posted in
Berwick-on-Tweed, a town I had mistakenly thought of asbeing in Scotland butwhich I have discovered isnow in Northumberland,the card is one of a seriesall featuring the same twochildren acting out ‘An oldborder custom.’ Appar-ently Berwick was‘moved’ to England in1482 and now lies justtwo and a half milessouth of the Scottish bor-der. I wonder what theinhabitants thought atthe time?
(below, right) A frontiersignpost here alongside therailway line between Nor-way and Sweden. c.1933
(right) For some reason modern postcards of Eire oftenfeature signposts, sometimes just on their own as inthis example by Peter o’Toole but often shown with atypical ‘local’ with either bicycle or donkey emphasis-ing the slow pace of life there.
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Dublin is a historic city withsome interesting street fur-niture. Here signpostshave been fixed to anattractive street lamp in aphotograph by T. Kelly inthe series ‘Ireland people& places’ published byJohn Hinde Ltd of Dublin,who also published theother example from Eire.
This card has intriguedme for some time. It is ap r i v a t e l y - p r o d u c e dphoto card with the date12.12.42 hand-writtenon it. I guess it could bein North Africaalthough the hats tellme that it was nottaken during the cam-paign there. With theirbeers in their hands itmakes me think of thefilm ‘Ice Cold in Alex’.Perhaps they too hadfought together in thedesert and had agreed to meet there after thewar and drink a cold beer under this signpost.
In a big Lon-don department store I found a seriesnew to me. All the cards featured signposts showingunusual names and were published by Lesser SpottedImages in their series Lesser Spotted Britain. Each set ofsignposts is connected in some way and on the back aregiven details as to which county they are to be found in.The illustrated example features signposts in North York-shire, Northumberland, Cumbria and Worcestershire. Thesign to Drinkers End seems to have suffered a little?
In the Imperial War Muse-um visitors can see theoften home-made signswhich once adorned thetrenches during World WarOne. This postcard pro-duced by the Museumshows some of these.
A German signpost still in situ amidst the destruction allround. It would appear that there was only one way to go.
Signposts also came inthe form of milestones,as in this example atZanzibar. The area hashad a chequered histo-ry, gaining indepen-dence from Britain in1963. On 27th August1896 ships of theRoyal Navy destroyedthe Palace and acease-fire wasdeclared 38 minuteslater. The bombard-ment stands to thisday as the shortest war in history! Ascan be seen on the signpost, London is a long way fromZanzibar: 8064 miles to be precise.
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Shown here are four of the postcards from threeattractive sets of Signposts and Mileposts (series2403, 2451-2) published by the London firm BirnBrothers. Designed so they could be overprinted forlocal sales, the postcards also have a romantic angle.The example above was posted at Ipswich in August
1909, while the Wrex-ham card below left wassent from that town inAugust 1908. Putney’swas mailed from its cor-rect location in June1908, and the card of
Southwell on the
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the area. In 1810, whilstholidaying with his richwife Henrietta at Mude-ford, they drove overthe beaches and sanddunes to the mouth of a
little stream called ‘bourne’where she fell in love with thebeautiful pine trees, sanddunes and warm climate.Captain Tregonwell, whosemain home was at Cran-borne, immediately pur-chased 81/2 acres from SirGeorge Tapps and in 1812,built a house called ‘The Man-sion’ which todayis the site of “TheRoyal ExeterHotel” in ExeterR o a d .Bournemouthowes its begin-nings to Tre-gonwell whohas been called ‘thefounder ofBournemouth’.He certainlywas the first to
see its potential as a healthresort for the wealthy, sick,and elderly, but times havechanged and now the town isregarded as one of the mostpopular holiday resorts onthe south coast with a popu-lation of 165,000. Tregonwelldied on January 18th 1832aged 73 and his wife Henriet-ta two months later aged 76.They are buried in the Tre-gonwell tomb in St. Peter’schurchyard, the town’s moth-er church. Bournemouth’sremote location from Londonmeant its development into aseaside resort was slow butby the 1850s the town wasbeginning to take shape. TheBournemouth ImprovementAct of 1856 and the Board ofCommissioners began byproviding the facilities andpublicity needed to make it apopular resort, the census of1851 recording a jump from
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BBournemouth is a young town, having only just cel-ebrated its 200th anniversary, unlike its much olderneighbours of Christchurch and Poole. The town liesin an area surrounding the mouth of the ‘Bourne’stream on a wild, desolate heathland with a few fish-ermen’s hovels on common land used for grazing,and a few paths crossing the area. Its use in the 18thcentury was as a popular route for smugglers, themost famous of whom was Isaac Gulliver.
The Christchurch enclosureact of 1802 passed by parlia-ment enabled much of thecommon land to be enclosedand sold to seven freehold-ers, which cleared the wayfor plantations of pine treesto be planted replacing muchof the gorse and heath androads were developed fromrough tracks. An inn, longsince gone, was establishedto provide facilities betweenChristchurch and Poole. In1796, when the shorelinebetween Hengistbury Headand Sandbanks was recog-nised as a possible place foran invasion by Napoleon, atroop of Dorset Yeomanryunder the command of Cap-tain Lewis DymockGrosvenor Tregonwell wasresponsible for the defence of
700 to nearly 17,000 in 1881,and its image as a centre forthe wealthy and ailing grew.The Russell-Cotes familycame from Glasgow becauseof Mr. Merton’s poor health,and after visiting the townand staying at the RoyalBath Hotel, he acquired it in1880. Later, as Sir Merton,Mayor of Bournemouth, in1894 he built the Russell-Cotes museum on the EastCliff as a birthday present forhis wife, Annie. Originallycalled ‘East Cliff Hall’, it isnow the Russell-Cotes Muse-um and Art Gallery and wellworth a visit. They donatedthe house and contents tothe town provided they couldlive there during their life-times. In 1893 Sir Mertonbecame the only Mayor ofBournemouth who had notbeen a councillor. He wasmade a freeman in 1908 andknighted a year later. Trav-
ellers wanti-
Topographical focusBournemouth
John Garrett celebrates the bicentenary ofthe south coast resort
Bournemouth
The coat of arms wasgranted to the town onMarch 24th 1891. Thecrest on the top consists of four Englishroses surmounted by a palm tree. The town’s motto “Pul-chritudo et salubritas” isbelow on an ornamentalscroll and means ‘beauti-ful and healthy’. Thepostcard, postmarkedBournemouth, June 30,1905 is one of the ‘Ja-Ja’heraldic series of cardsdesigned and producedin England.
Bournemouth, The Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and MuseumIn 1894 Sir Merton Russell-Cotes Mayor of Bournemouthbuilt the East Cliff Hall on the East Cliff as a birthday pre-sent for Annie, his wife. It was to be their private houseand on completion he announced he would give a largepart of his art collection and his wife, Annie, would give thehouse and most of its contents to the town provided theycould live there during their lifetimes. It was opened as theRussell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum by Princess Beat-rice, Queen Victoria’s youngest daughter in 1919. This cardis unused and has no indication of printer or publisher.
The earliest recorded postcard fromBournemouth is dated 15th April 1897 print-ed in Holstein, Germany. Originally classedas a court card, the message appeared onthe front as only the address was allowedon the back of the card prior to 1902 whenthe divided back type of cards were sanc-tioned by the post office. This card, dated25 Feb 1899, shows an early coloured viewof “The Chine” and was sent from the Dur-ley Hall, Durley Chine with a very clearBournemouth cancel of 25 Feb 1899 print-ed by the Pictorial Stationary Co at thefine art works, Holstein.
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ng to come to Bournemouthby train had to take a horse-drawn carriage from the sta-tions at Holmsley,Christchurch or Poole untilBournemouth Central stationopened for passengers in1888 ( after much opposition)where there was a service tothe Royal Bath Hotel. TheVictorian glass structure ofthe station is now a listedbuilding. Except for a fewamateur photographers,there were only four photog-raphers of note - Robert Day(1822-73. His son W.J.Daycarried on the business until1920 when the library pur-chased the collection), theSpinney brothers William(1860-1933) and Henry (1882-1962) who, although ama-teurs, were very professionalin their approach to photog-raphy and produced a fine setof pictures of the Centenary,and Martin J. Ridley, who inpartnership with Harry Miellhad a studio in OldChristchurch Road. Miell wasa portrait photographer andRidley’s speciality was viewcards which can be recog-
nised by the letters ‘M.J.R.B.’at the bottom right hand cor-ner of the cards. He travelledthe whole of the U.K. andwhen he died, his daughterhad to dispose of severalthousand glass plates andview cards most of whichwere destroyed. The towncoat of arms was granted toBournemouth on 24th March1891, the motto ‘pulchritudoet salubritas’ meaning ‘beau-tiful and healthy’. The earliestrecorded postcard fromBournemouth is dated 15thApril 1897 printed in Holstein,Germany (my own earliest isa court card from 25th Feb,1899). The two earliest pierswere destroyed by stormsand gales. A new iron pierwas started in 1878 andopened by the Lord Mayor ofLondon in 1880. It had abandstand, facilities forsteamship passengers toembark and disembark fromexcursion trips, a roller skat-ing rink provided on specialflooring, seating all down thelength of the pier and facili-ties for refresh-
ments; just over £6,000 wastaken in tolls of 1d in 1892alone. Excursion trips werevery popular and the first reg-ular steamer service was pro-vided by the “Heather Belle”in 1871. By 1880, two compa-nies, Cosens of Weymouthand the Bournemouth SouthCoast Steam Packet Companywere competing for business(a whole article could be writ-ten about the paddle steam-ers). The “Belle Vue Hotel”,built in 1838, provided someof the first accommodationfor visitors. It had a libraryand was used as a venue formeetings. Ideally situatedclose to the sands and pier, itwas demolished in1928 mak-ing way for the Pavilionwhich was opened by H.R.H.Duke of Gloucester on March19th,1929. The “Mont DoreHotel”, opened in the sum-mer of 1885, was very luxuri-ous with 120 rooms
and a separate suite for royal-ty. It was used as a militaryhospital during the FirstWorld War and in 1920 wasbought by BournemouthCouncil for £33,000 for con-version to a town hall which itstill is today. It was not until1907 that the first section ofthe promenade, from the pierto Meyrick Road, was openedby Lady Meyrick and gradual-ly new sections were opened.Today it runs from South-bourne to Alum Chine and onto Poole.
Bathing machines werea common sight on the beachin the 19th century. It was theplace for families and chil-dren, there were pierrots andPunch and Judy shows - thelast being performed by Fred-die Beale in about 1996 - andkiosks to buy ice creams andsoft drinks. The original Win-ter Gardens, built in 1873, hadterrible acoustics and wasextensively altered and in1893 the BournemouthMunicipal Orchestra, the firstin England, was formedunder Dan Godfrey (later Sir),who was appointed head ofthe town’s entertainments.Sadly, it no longer exists. TheCoronation of King Edward
The first coach andhorses service operated in Bournemouth
under the name “Tally Ho” provided by Henry Laidlaw.The famous Royal Blue company (now part of NationalExpress) was started by Thomas Elliott in 1880. He beganoperating using a stagecoach and had up to 200 horsesstabled in Norwich Avenue. This card probably dates from1910 and is taken from outside Hankinson & Sons. Thecard is unused with no indication of publisher.
The pier, opened in 1880 by the Lord Mayor of London,was 858 feet long, 35 feet wide terminating in a hexagonalhead with landing stages to embark and disembark pas-sengers from paddle steamers and pleasure boats. Theboat seen here is the “Balmoral” built in June 1900,scrapped in 1945 having served through the war. The tollfor the pier in 1892 was 1d and in 1892/93 more than£6,000 was collected with one and a half million peoplepaying admission. This card another Louis Levy no.24 wasposted in Orpington, Kent on May 2nd 1910.
The central station opened in1888 when the link toBournemouth East Stationwas finally made althoughpassengers could reachBournemouth West Station in1874. The Victorian glassstructure is now a listedbuilding and the single spanover the 350 foot long plat-form is 95 feet wide and 45feet high with each of the 12girders weighing nearly 18tons. The card is Louis Levyno.72 of “The Central Sta-tion - interior” and isunused.
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were an undoubted successand buried the staid andstuffy image from which thetown had suffered.
The International Avia-tion meeting began on July11th and was deliberatelyheld to coincide with the Cen-tenary fetes. Many of theleading flyers of the day cameand took part in the competi-
tions for prizes. Demonstra-tion flights were held at theaerodrome at Southbournebetween Tuckton and DoubleDykes. Taking part wereColonel Samuel FranklinCody born in the UnitedStates who had become a
naturalised British subject,Captain Dickson, Mr. Gra-hame White, Mr. J. Arm-strong Drexel, Mr. Salmet,Mr. Christaens, Mr. M. Aude-mars, Mr. Radley and theHon C. S. Rolls. Tragedymarked the second day of the
VII in 1902 was celebratedwith a great programme ofevents culminating with aspectacular firework display.The Bournemouth Black andWhite Minstrels, the Birch-more and Lindon Pierrots andthe Gay Cadets all performedat various times right up untilthe Second World War.
The Bournemouth 1910Centenary celebrations ranfrom July 6th to July 16th,and officially were two yearsearly as Tregonwell’s firsthouse was not built until1812. However, the Councilagreed to underwrite the 10-day long series of events tothe sum of £30,000, an enor-mous amount for those days.They aimed to rival the cele-brations held on the Rivierawhere grand grotesque carni-vals and Battles of Confettiwere held every year. The fig-ure of “Chantecler” or “Cockof the Day” which stood 40feet high was a special attrac-tion for the parade of floats. Itwas brought over from theContinent, where it had wonfirst prize at Nice. SpecialCentenary Prix d’Honfleurbanners were awarded to thewinners for parading in theBattle of Flowers. They hadto be returned to the TownHall after the event. Thewhole town was festoonedwith bunting, ribbons, flagsand banners, including theshopping arcades, and noexpense was spared. As apublicity event the fetes
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The Mont Dore Hotel,opened in the summer of 1885. It was very lux-urious with 120 rooms and a separate suite for royalty.Used as a military hospital in the Second World War, it wasbought by the Bournemouth council for £33,000 in 1920 forconversion into a town hall which it is still today. This cardalso shows the War Memorial, which was unveiled on 8thNovember 1922. The card is unused printed and publishedby J. Salmon, Sevenoaks.
“The Pier”and “Belle Vue Hotel” were directly
opposite the entrance to the pier and are on the left on thiscard with the fancy bazaar and Sydenhams reading roomscentre right and Bath Road running up the hill betweenthem. Note the many carriages plying for hire. The card isLouis Levy no.4 postmarked Bournemouth Aug 24th 1908.
After a heavy cliff fall in1896, the Councilapproached Sir GeorgeMeyrick requesting permis-sion to construct an under-cliff promenade. After muchdeliberation, work beganand the first section of thenew Undercliff Drive wasopened on Nov 6th 1907 byLady Meyrick. In this picturethe Undercliff Drive can beseen looking much thesame as today and nowstretches all the way fromSouthbourne in the east toAlum Chine and thence toPoole in the west. This cardis hand-written (not posted,
but dated 8th Nov 1909) and is Raphael Tuck and Sons’ ‘Rapholette’ Bournemouth postcard.
Bournemouth CentenaryAir ShowThe Bournemouth 1810-1910 centenary card is byM.J.R.B. (Martin Ridley), alocal photographer andpublisher and depicts ascene of the fleet sur-rounded by 4 miniaturesof Bournemouth. Thecard is unused.
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flying displays, when to thespectators’ horror the planepiloted by Rolls began break-ing up when attempting toland on a marked spot and he
was killed. He became thefirst fatal flying accident vic-tim in the U.K. A memorialplaque exists near the spot
where he crashed in a
corner of St. Peter’s Schoolgrounds.
Many famous peoplehave associations with thetown: Sir Donald Bailey, TonyBlackburn, Max Bygraves, SirAlan Cobham, Charles Dar-win, Benjamin Disraeli, JohnGalsworthy, Stewart Granger,
Isaac Gulliver, Tony
Hancock, Amanda Holden,Lillie Langtry, Guglielmo Mar-coni, Mantovani, FreddieMills, C.S.Rolls, Mary andPercy Byshe Shelley, AnnSidney, Robert Louis Steven-son, Dame Sybil Thorndyke,Beatrice (Potter) Webb, Vir-ginia Wade and Sir RoyWelensky, all have lived in
the town at some stage andthere are many otherswith connections to thetown. Suffice to say this isonly a brief synopsis ofBournemouth, covering aperiod of the first one hun-dred years and including afew choice postcards frommy collection. I hope youenjoy it.
The originalWinter Gardens pictured from the out-
side in about 1900. The acoustics were notoriously poorespecially when it rained heavily. This card shows the mas-sive amount of glass involved in the structure, hence thenicknames “greenhouse, hothouse and conservatory”. Iattended many concerts there in my youth whilst still atschool. The building has recently been demolished. Pub-lished by White & Jones, The Triangle, Bournemouth alocal publisher and posted from Bournemouth on Septem-
ber 11th 1904.
The Centenary fetesof 1910 lasted for two weeks. The wholetown, including The Square, arcades and shops,was fes-tooned with flags, bunting and banners, with everywhereablaze with colour. The Gervis Arcade, known today as theBournemouth Arcade, was begun in 1866 by Henry Joy, abuilder. Originally open to the sky, it was finally roofed andglazed in 1873. Seats were provided for people to sit andlisten to the bands who performed there daily in a galleryat the east end. The card shows the arcade with all its dec-orations in place. Printed and published by Harvey Barton& Son, Bristol Ltd, the card was posted from Bournemouthon July 19th 1910.
(right) The air showcommenced in the 11thJuly and broughttogether all the leadingpilots of the day.Tragedy marred thesecond day of the flyingdisplays when to thehorror of spectatorsthe plane piloted bythe Hon. C.S. Rollsbegan breaking upwhen attempting toland on a markedspot. The card says“we saw him fly theday before he waskilled. It was verysad”. This was thefirst fatal flying acci-dent in Britain and itwas the first time aninternational avia-tion meeting hadbeen held in thiscountry. Card pub-lished by HarveyBarton & Son Ltd,Bristol. Postmarked Bournemouth July22nd 1910.
The BournemouthMayor in 1912 was Mr. McColmont Hill who
was returned unopposed in every election from 1911 to1914. The card says “saw some flights by the mayor in thisplane last night, this morning went bathing at 7am, a bitwet”. Real photo published by the Bournemouth View CoLtd, St. Pauls Lane, Bournemouth. PostmarkedBournemouth July 20th 1912.
The centenary fetes of 1910went on for two weeks to cel-ebrate the founding ofBournemouth by Lewis Tre-gonwell and attracted manycarnival floats includingsome from Italy. The wholetown was decked out withribbons, bunting, flags andbanners and the event wasunderwritten by the councilto the tune of £30,000. Thefloat entitled “cock of theday” or “chantecler” wasbrought from “Nice” inFrance as a special attrac-tion for the parade of floats.There is no indication of pub-lisher and the card is unused.
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WWriting home from Vladivostok, 1907
Philip Robinson
Writing home from Vladivostok, 1907
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firms whichoperated in Russia’s Far Eastat that time, and publishingpostcards was purely a side-line - the firm had a largedepartment store on Vladi-vostok’s main street, and theyalso had interests in mining,fisheries and other localindustries. The sender of thecards had chosen quite agood selection of views toshow ‘Miss E. O’Neil’ a littleof the city, and here is a tran-script of what is written onthe cards, together with abrief description of each card.Card no. 1 (above) – view ofVladivostok railway stationDear E. Just a line to let youknow that I am still alive andkicking very lively at present.
We arrived here last Tues-day 19th August and wehave had a very decent time.The Russians have been ask-ing us out to dinners andconcerts since we have beenhere, quite a strange thingfor them but they are alright… Card no. 2 not available – themessage evidently referred tothe ship’s next port of call.Card no. 3 (right) – artist-drawn design incorporating aview of the railway station… when I will write as soon asI arrive and let you knowabout the turn out we havehad here. I hope you getthese safe as it is a very badroute and not always safe …Card no. 4 (below left) – aview of wooden boats in asmall bay… so I hope and trust you getthem safe. I hope you are
enjoying the best of
health and strength, alsothat Ma and Vi are the sameand Charlie and Nell and chil-dren are the same. As youcan guess I am very ill in bedas I always am. We have aconcert and nigger partycoming off on board…Card no. 5 (below) – view ofthe Russo-Chinese Bank… and it will be almost asgood as the Empire exceptthat we don’t sit on plushseats and no programme girlto talk to - Eh what! But onlywooden stools and print ourown programme on a type-writer machine, and entrancefee nothing, but still 2 seatsNos. 7 and 8 in the back row
of the Empire would…Card no. 6 (opposite page,top) – view of the OrientalInstitute… suit me better, what do yousay about it Eh. Well never
mind cheer up,
I hope tohave the pleasure again of sit-ting in No 8 with you in No 7.Well Edith I humbly apologiseif you have had to pay extrapostage on any of these post-cards that I have sent you…Card no. 7 (opposite) – artist-drawn design incorporatingsmall views of a market bythe quayside and the Tri-umphal Arch.… but I had no business tohave written on the front partat all unless I put the postagefor a letter on and I do notthink I have done that alwaysso I hope it has not inconve-
I found the postcards in adealer’s stock at the York faira few years ago. There are sixcards addressed to Deptford,London, all posted on thesame day. Looking moreclosely at the postcards, Inoticed that they were allnumbered, and it was clearthat the inscriptions actuallycomprised a single message,written on successive cards.Unfortunately, card no. 2 wasnot in the dealer’s stock, but Ipurchased the rest of them.
The cards were all pub-lished in Vladivostok byKunst & Albers. This was thelargest of several German
Vladivostok, in the Russian Far East, is an importantseaport and naval base, and at the turn of the lastcentury it was the eastern terminus of the newly-builtTrans-Siberian Railway. It is not an old city, havingbeen founded as recently as the 1860s, a time whenRussia began to exert more influence in the Far East,the superb natural harbour making it an obviouschoice as a base for shipping and commerce. In theearly 1900s British ships occasionally called at Vladi-vostok, including Royal Naval vessels. The postcardsshown here were sent home to England in August1907 by a young sailor whose ship was visiting Vladi-vostok, and who was writing to his girlfriend. Theremay have been a diplomatic connection with hisship’s presence in Vladivostok, as on 31 August 1907the ‘Anglo-Russian Entente’ was concluded, whichsettled the two powers’ outstanding differences inPersia, Afghanistan and Tibet.
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nienced you at all. Well Edithhoping to hear from yousoon, I will close with best toall and extra for yourself, soau revoir W.D.C.T.
The sender was clearlywriting to his girlfriend Edith,the ‘Miss O’Neil’ to whom thecards were sent, and he onlyidentified himself by his ini-tials. However, a littleresearch in public records hasenabled me to find out a littlebit about him and his para-mour.
William Dan ConingslyTaylerson was born in Hack-ney, London, in 1884, the sonof a council clerk, while Edith
May O’Neil was born in Wal-worth, London, in 1888. Atthe time of the 1901 census,William Taylerson was a six-teen year-old member of thecrew of H.M.S Impregnable.This ship, formerly H.M.S.Howe, had by the 1890sbecome a training ship basedat Devonport. The 1911 cen-sus return shows William as a‘Petty Officer Telegraphist,Royal Navy’ who was a ‘visi-tor’ at the Deptford home of50 year-old Mrs Ellen MaryWillmore. At the sameaddress were Mrs Willmore’sdaughters Edith O’Neil, 22,and Violet O’Neil, 19, Edithbeing described as a ‘blousemaker’. More research con-firmed that Mrs Willmore’sfirst husband, William O’Neil,had died in 1890.
So in 1907 WilliamTaylerson had been writing to
the teenage Edith, at whosehome he was living fouryears later. Although Williamand Edith were eventuallymarried, they evidentlyenjoyed quite a longcourtship (some of this timeevidently being spent in theback row of the “Empire”) asthe wedding did not takeplace until 1915. They arehard to trace in later records,and do not seem to have hadany children. They may per-haps have emigrated; Williamdoes not appear to be listedas a First World War casualty.
I wonder if I shall everfind the missing card no. 2?!
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PPostcards in thewash
It was Washday Blues atEXETER in May, with DiLawer presenting postcardsthat depicted the history ofwashing and laundry.Splendid brightly-illustratedpostcards showed childrenin wooden bath tubs, prettywomen in hip and showerbaths, boys in tin baths andelegant pedestal baths. Di’searly cards had everyonesmiling before she movedon to water heaters, boilergas geysers, washboards,mangles, dolly pegs and allthe other washday para-phernalia! She also showedoff reproduction soapadvert postcards, and hermemorable talk wasenjoyed by all.
PPM editor Brian Lundvisited the NORTHAMP-TONSHIRE club again, thistime putting on a displaythat underlined the impor-tance of topographical post-cards from national, region-al and local publishers. Thedisplay, talk and subse-quent question and answersession gave everyone inthe audience a chance toparticipate.
� The Football PostcardCollectors Club celebrated20 years’ existence in May,and that month’s magazinemaintains the high standardset from the outset by origi-nator Paul Macnamara. Itcontains articles on the G.A.Wiles postcards of crowdscenes at Brighton & HoveAlbion, the Newcastle Unit-ed postcards of GladstoneAdams, Crystal Palace’searly years and lots more.
Nottinghamshire’s postalhistory was on the agendaat NOTTINGHAM PostcardClub in May. With the aid ofslides, Dennis Humphreystraced it back to 1561 whenthe first postmasters wereappointed in the county.Postal route maps were pro-duced and the postal facilitybecame available to thepublic. Dennis showed aselection of old letters,some sealed with wax, andpostcards of the county. InJune, the ladies entertainedwith postcards of Royal jew-ellery, country life and farmscenes, and ‘A holiday inSpain’ - a clever compila-tion of preparation, flightand adventure.
A party from the MID-ESSEX club visited EssexPolice HQ in Chelmsford inMay, when the guided tourincluded a look at thesuperb Operation ControlCentre, where an insightinto how the vast and high-ly sophisticated Centre per-forms its many duties. Fromthere, the group moved onto the Essex Police Muse-um, which features 160years of the county’s con-stabulary history. ChairmanJohn Adnam was ceremoni-ally handcuffed for a shorttime!
� Aylsham Postcard Clubhave a new venue from thismonth, at the CawstonRoad Chapel in Aylsham.
The SOUTH WALES clubheld a quiz evening in Maywhen Lynne Warry askedthe audience contestants toidentify a range of topo-graphical cards from theCardiff and Newport areas.The answers came via apowerpoint projection ofthe featured postcards.
READING’s first meet-ing of May saw Cliff Mad-dock give a powerpoint dis-play of cigarette and tradecards which followed theRiver Thames from Pang-bourne to Kingston. His aimwas to show how the hobbycan be widened from itsusual completion of sets orcollection of types to pro-vide a panorama similar tothat afforded by picturepostcards. Later in themonth, Chris Hollinghamexplained the role of LordBaden-Powell and his sisterAgnes in the establishmentof the Scout and Guidemovements in 1908 and1910. An enthusiastic ques-tion time followed, with theopportunity to examine partof Chris’s personal collec-tion of postcards and othermemorabilia. He invokedmany long-forgotten mem-ories and tales of earlierscouting and guiding daysamong many of his audi-ence.
Denby Dale CollectorsSociety were at HUDDERS-FIELD Postcard Club in May,returning a visit two monthspreviously. The Denby con-tingent produced a numberof excellent displays andpresentations, including cal-endars, cigarette cards,postcards of advertisingposters, letterheads andglass walking sticks.
� Clubscene � July 2010 highlightsAylsham - Les Downham is guest dealer(5th, at new
venue, Cawson Road Chapel)Bradford - members’ night(29th) Bristol - ‘As we like it’ with Christine Booth and Michael
Lambert(5th)Bury St. Edmunds - an evening with Lee Marchant(20th) Canterbury & East Kent - “Best thing since sliced
bread”, says Felicity Stafford(28th) Cotswold - vintage bus trip(29th)Croydon - Mike Garwood features Boston(1st)Dorset - “Whatever happened to the Customs?” asks
Brian Searle(14th)Ellesmere Port - informal evening(20th)Exeter - members’ evening:six cards on the letters T, U
or V(27th)Farnborough - informal meeting(7th) and ‘Whatever you
wish to show’(21st) Ferndown - early classics & postal history of the British
Empire(12th) and ‘Goats & Mexican Wells Fargo’ with Francis Kiddle(26th)
Frinton & Walton - outing to Shark’s teeth at Walton(6th)and Keith Banks on ‘The Flying Squad’(13th)
Grampian - Eric Lawson features coal mining in West Fife (12th, at new venue, Inverurie Community Centre)
Huddersfield - old gas lamps with Philip Tordoff(14th) Lothian - members’ night(9th) Maidstone - Tony Farnham on East Coast barges(19th) Mid-Essex - AGM(15th)Norfolk - Richard Everitt on The Seaforth
Highlanders(14th) Northamptonshire - visit to Thurleigh Air Museum(13th)Nottingham - chairman’s choice(13th) Plymouth - Geoff Ashton on the Golden Age of LL plus
display of lace postcards(14th) Reading - club fair(4th), competition entries
discussion(8th) and auction(22nd)Red Rose - talk by Stephen Sartin(21st)Shropshire - cards on the letter ‘N’(13th) South Downs - roundabout Lewes with Bob Cairns(14th) South Wales - visit to Glamorgan Cricket Museum(8th) Surrey - walk around Blackheath(21st) Torbay - talks from club members(14th)Wealden - summer outing on the Wey & Arun
Canal(9th) West London - Weatherman Ian Currie tells of ‘the day it
rained crabs and frogs’(16th) Wirral - websites for the historian with Gavin Hunter(1st)
A real Cornish eveningThe desperate plight of Cornish miners forced totravel across the world to find work was recalled atPlymouth’s May meeting. This was a talk with a dif-ference, however, as Alan and Lynda Jewell mov-ingly told the story of Cornish emigration in words,music and song, accompanied by Alan on variousinstruments (concertina, mandola and bazouki) withLynda on the flute. Alan’s interest in the hardshipsendured by his forbears began when he found outthat his grandparents made the long journey to SaltLake City in the early 1900s. The Redruth duo usetheir musical talents to promote a Cornish GlobalMigration Project launched on the internet by Alanto establish a database of all the county’s emi-grants. With the flag of St. Piran as a backcloth, Cor-nish members played a key role in the success ofthe evening. Tony Lucas from Saltash set up asuperb array of south-east Cornwall topos; StevePrescott from St. Ives was the visiting dealer; PeterKeast from Newquay gave a hearty vote of thanks;and Rowe’s Bakery of Falmouth supplied hot pastiesand saffron cake for a proper Cornish supper.
FERNDOWN had a double bill at their latest event, with adisplay of Spitsbergen covers and postcards, the lattercovering the spectacular scenery or the ships that visitedthe region. Even a postcard produced by a German touristleader who ran his own company was on display, alongwith a rare postcard from Bear Island. The second half ofthe evening was a display of the mobile post offices ofSouth Africa, introduced in 1937 as the townships expand-ed rapidly; the first one was in Johannesburg. In all 25mobile offices were established but were withdrawn grad-ually in the 1980s.
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DDiana’s adventures
WEST LONDON club mem-bers were hugely enter-tained by 91-year-old DianaKeevil, who packed a life-time’s tale into the evening,recently. As a child she livedwith her mainly absentfather, illiterate mother,grandmother and sister intwo rooms, one for living inand one for sleeping in. Atthe age of 12 she left hometo join a Hungarian danceand acrobatic troupe andwas soon on the road tour-ing Europe. Diana per-formed in street circus andmet celebrated artistes suchas Edith Piaf and JosephineBaker. Bandleader Billy Cot-ton helped her escape fromGermany on the eve ofWorld War Two. Diana’stalk was filled with charm,humour and anecdotes in atruly fascinating perfor-mance that included twofilms of her act.
Sylvia and MichaelPorter went through thealphabet - almost - as theypresented a guessing gameof places in Suffolk featuredon postcards from their col-lection at BURY ST.EDMUNDS’ latest session.Projected on an epidias-cope, the event lacked onlythe letter ‘J’ - which doesnot fetaure on a Suffolkplace name. The Portersalso brought along theircharity cards for sale, andmany of the club memberswere delighted to receive apersonal parcel of postcardson their chosen subjects.
Margaret and HarryClark gave WEALDEN’saudience in May a fascinat-ing insight into the historyand growth of Rustington,and the thoughts of resi-dents and visitors on post-cards from the village. Youcould probably write ameteorological history ofRustington, which inspiredan amazing number of post-cards, from messages onthe backs!
Alan Barwick’s million-aire’s quiz formed the sec-ond part of the evening.Three contestants, Brianand Roy Tester along withColin McDougall, were sub-jected to questions of vary-ing difficulty on the subjectof picture postcards. Theycould call on a friend fromthe audience, go 50-50 orstick. Each did well, butthere had to be a tie-breakquestion in the end todecide the winner, whoturned out to be BrianTester.
Sixteen brave souls fromLOTHIAN Postcard Clubgathered on Edinburgh’sCastle Esplanade on May11th despite a biting northwind, to enjoy a tour of thecity with guide GeorgeLaing. Progress was madedown the Royal Mile asGeorge pointed out the his-tory of the older buildings.The tour ended outside thecity’s oldest house, datingback to 1460. The party thenset off to a local restaurant,where a convivial eveningwas spent. Three days later,the club’s regular monthlysession was entertained byRichard Cuthbertson(extreme right in photoabove), whose interest inpostcards was first awak-ened 50 years ago when hisgrandmother would occa-sionally let him look into herpostcard album. If he wasgood, he was allowed tochoose one! Four decadeslater, that interest wasrekindled when Richard vis-ited an antiques fair in Stir-ling and bought one deal-er’s entire Clackmannan-shire stock! From there itwas all go, and despite liv-ing in Hong Kong, he wassent batches of approvalsthat allowed him to build upan impressive Tillicoutrycollection, part of which hedisplayed. As a bonus,Richard also showed aselection of about 180 post-cards of the island ofMacao, whose stamps heonce collected.
CROYDON membersenjoyed Ken Harman’sunusual display last monthgiving potted histories ofselected Surrey mansions.He also included stories ofsome of the more promi-nent owners, like the Earl ofEldon (Shirley House), SirJeremiah Colman of Englishmustard fame (Gatton Park)and Thomas Hope of Dep-dene (near Dorking), whocreated a centre of classicalculture and taste.
Postcard dealer RichardSpurgin was guest speakerat the NORFOLK club inMay, asking “why not lookat the back?”and dividinghis talk into two distinctparts. In the first he stressedthe significance of stampsand postmarks. Usingsuperb enlarged visual aids,Richard showed how seem-ingly mundane postcardssometimes carried a collect-ing bonus on the reverseand suggested cheap boxeswere often a good source ofinteresting postmarks. Mes-sages, too, could provideextra fascination. In the sec-ond part of his talk, Richardlooked at the many famouscachet postmarks, includingLands End, Snowdon, Snae-fell, John O’Groats andeven Blackpool Tower.
COTSWOLD club mem-bers went on a visit to theLiving Memory HistoricalAssociation at Cirencester.This is a small, privately-runmuseum where interestcentres on the militaryaspects of World War II andthe following two decades.It houses a wonderful col-lection of genuine articlessuch as uniforms of soldiersand nurses, backed up byeveryday objects from thewartime years. Two of themuseum’s founder-mem-bers provided a guided tourof the fascinating exhibits.
James Marshall gave aWEST LONDON audience arailway treat in April as helinked an outline of the tech-nical evolution of railwayengines with the personalityof the Rev. Wilbert Awdrey,creator of Thomas the TankEngine. Awdry was veryconcerned with authentici-ty, but the illustrator of hisbooks, C. Reginald Dalby,was more interested inartistic style. The authorwas particularly infuriatedwith Henry the GreenEngine and had himwrecked in one story so hecould be rebuilt! James’spresentation included plen-ty of biographical detailabout the author.
Club members had anouting to Brentford, too,where three guidesrevealed everything tointerest the visitor, includ-ing a Victorian sewagepumping station, the 18thcentury soaphouse, and thelarge complex of roads, rail-ways, docks and canals inthe borough.
A touch of the blackstuff
BRADFORD Postcard Soci-ety stalwart Joan Dennisonwas on the Guinness inMay, basing her ‘Toucan &all that’ talk and display onpostcards related to thefamous drink. Joan wasborn in Dublin, so is obvi-ously well-qualified to dealwith the subject! She put onan excellent display whichincluded some superb realphotographic cards show-ing interior and exteriorviews of the factory. Fasci-nating historical back-ground information aboutfounder Arthur Guinnesscame out, along with infor-mation on the artists whohad designed adverts forthe company.
Stonehaven nostagia
GRAMPIAN Postcard Club’ssecond meeting welcomedfive new members as BrianWatt entertained with ‘OldStonehaven’, which gener-ated plenty of discussionand reminiscing. DealerMoira Rothnie had her stockon display, and with othermembers bringing spares,the informal trading wasgreatly enjoyed.
Three-way tie
Guests from the Cotswoldand Mendip clubs were atBRISTOL’s session lastmonth, when all three clubsgave short presentations.The host club showed a col-lection of photos of thedevelopment and construc-tion of the ‘BristolBrabazon’ aircraft, whichfirst flew in 1949. The run-way at Filton had to bequadrupled in length toaccommodate it. Cotswoldoffered postcards of the 28medieval windows of St.Mary’s Church, Fairford,and a fine selection of post-cards covering specialevents at the church, includ-ing fetes, outings andchoirs. Mendip’s displaywas a slideshow of post-cards and photos coveringthe Raynsfords in wartime,with cards showing thefamily village of Chidding-fold in Surrey, various WW1postcards, including one ofa soldier member of thefamily who died at Arras inMay 1917.
* Details of club contacts,meeting times and venuescan be found in 2010 PicturePostcard Annual.
NOTTINGHAM Postcard Club chairman Graham Hopcrofthas arranged a tour of the city’s Council House to replacethis month’s meeting. It takes place on the evening of 13thJuly, starting at 7pm. For further details and to book aplace, ring Graham on 0115 9224057.
Braving the weather
� Postcards relating to mail recovery from aircraft and shipping disasters was the sub-ject of Peter Day’s talk at the NORFOLK club last month. Cards of the vessels before andat the time of an accident, cards carried on board and related messages were all intro-duced into a fascinating mix. Peter also covered wartime wrecks.
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When I started work in theearly 1970s I looked at thepossibility of increasing thecollection and within a veryfew years started to attendsome of the small local fairs.It was reassuring to beencouraged by some of thehelpful dealers who gave me,a novice, much information,help and advice. Since thattime my collection hasincreased with a growinginterest in both Military andGreetings silk cards. Likemany collectors, my interestsnow have branched out toother subjects which includelocal topographical, Clovellyand Lyme Regis. Also, forsomething different, I haveamassed a good collection ofBamforth comics which alsoinclude the short series show-ing the rather naughty ‘Oscarthe Pup’. Modern Lifeboatcards also come within mycollecting interests.
Postcard collecting is anabsorbing hobby and I hopethat both the small local fairsand their larg-er counter-parts continueto thrive, giv-ing the oppor-tunity forbeginners tostart collec-tions as well ashelping themore advancedcollector to findthat little gemwhich is outthere waiting tobe found.
with Julia Sayers
DDesert IslandPostcards
In the early 1960s I was given a couple of silk greet-ings postcards by an elderly relative. They weresomewhat grubby (later foundto be foxed as well!) and Ithought it a shame that theyhad been unkindly treated inthe past. I put them away in adrawer and forgot about themuntil we moved in 1967 whenthey were rediscovered. Itwas then that I thought aboutresearching their history but,still being at school withexams looming and a distinctlack of funds, nothing muchhappened.
A Royal FlyingCorps silk postcard sent on 21stApril 1917. Within a year the RFC became part of the RoyalAir Force on 1st April 1918.
A nice example of a MilitarySilk sent from Frank Adamson 2nd June 1916. The Gor-don Highlanders were the75th Regiment of FootGuards.
Chaldon Road, Caterham,showing the Primary School I attended in the 1950s.
Apart from the fact that the fountain is no longer there, thebuildings remain largely unchanged.
(c.1910)
(right) The former RAF Station, Kenley. The main entranceshown is but 300 yards from my home. Many of the build-ings have now been demolished and a lot of the land hasbeen developed into a modern housing estate. However,there are two gliding schools which regularly still use partof the old airfield. (c.1937-1940).
(above) One of a short series of Bamforth comics in their‘Oscar the Pup’ series (G299). Poor Oscar seems to be introuble on every card! (postally used 20/6/1962).
(above) CrazyKate’s Cottage, Clovelly. An artist-drawncard by E W Haselhurst and published by VivianMansell in series 2138. This is reported to be theoldest cottage in Clovelly. History books relate thestory that Kate stood at her window and watchedher husband’s boat sink in a storm out at sea. Thisevent turned her brain and she went crazy, hencethe nickname.
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Important Auction ofPOSTCARDS, EPHEMERA & BEER LABELS
on Wednesday 14th Julyat The Royal British Legion,
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BBelle Vue - big and boldNorman Ellis seeks amusement
in Manchester
Belle Vue - big and bold
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my School Certificate. Iforgot about Belle Vue.But I did eventually getthere in 1967. Ten yearsafter, Belle Vue Zoo &Amusement Park was inrapid demise. This ‘Play-ground of the North’ hadprovided pleasure for over140 years. I still have thesixty-page official guide,price 1/6d, which I pur-chased on my visit. It
gives details of the ani-mals, birds, reptiles andfish, plus information onthe amusement park, gar-dens, restaurants, barsand the then latest attrac-tion, the Model Village,complete with medievalcastle and heli-port.
Belle Vue owed itsearly development to oneJohn Jennison, who wasborn at Bulwell, near Not-tingham, in 1793. From anearly age, he showed a keeninterest in animals andplants, eventually becom-ing a jobbing gardener. Bythe middle 1820s, marriedand living at Adswood nearStockport, he opened hisown gardens on summerSunday afternoons, callingthem Strawberry Gardens.By 1829, the enterpriseincluded small animals andbirds, and had become afull-time occupation, withthe many visitors paying anadmission charge. Heturned his house into a pubwhich he called the Adam &Eve and built an adjoiningbrew house. The success ofhis ventures, and lack ofspace for expansion, ledJennison to consider analternative site. In 1836, hetook a 6 month trial lease
of Belle Vue, on the newroad between Manchesterand Hyde. The successfultrial led to the lease beingextended to 99 years.
The Belle Vue site hadonce been used for limeextraction. In 1819, oneJohn Walker procured alease on this land, on whichhe built an inn combinedwith a farmhouse, which hetitled Belle Vue House. Twoacres of the 35 acre plotwere allocated for publicuse, with a bowling green,trees, gardens and walks.But in 1834 the lease wastaken over by William Crisp,who introduced rabbitcoursing. He advertised theestablishment as Belle VueTea Gardens. These passedto John Jennison in 1836and remained with the Jen-nison family until 1925, butcontinued under otheradministrations until 1977.John Jennison transferredhis zoological collectionfrom Adwood to Belle Vueand disposed of his formersite. He concentrated onenlarging and improving hisnew location. The problemswere immense and healmost became bankruptduring a recession in 1843.
The 1939-45 War beganjust before my tenth birth-day, and holidays awaywere severely disruptedor, in my case, non-exis-tent. ‘Holidays at Home’were eventually organisedby some towns and vil-lages. Hitler did not dropmany bombs in the Wake-field area where I lived. Iwas fifteen when the warended and studying for
By the time I was nine, I had enjoyed week-long hol-idays at Blackpool, Scarborough (both three times),Llandudno, Skegness and Southport (each once).These were at the end of July, just before the oldBank Holiday. An uncle with a car occasionally tookmy parents and me on day trips to places such as theNorth Yorkshire Moors, but he never risked drivinghis Morris 8 up or down Sutton Bank. A friend of myuncle once took us to Morecambe for the day. Daytrips by bus or train included York, Haworth, Ilkley,Otley, Harrogate and Knaresborough - or GoldenAcre Park and Roundhay Park at Leeds. One place Inever got to, and which I wanted to visit, was BelleVue Zoo & Amusement Park at Man-chester.
The MonkeyHouse was built in 1881 in the Moor-
ish style. It was kept at a temperature of 60-70 degreesFahrenheit by hot water pipes. The large cage in its centrecontained a wide variety of monkeys, plus devices such asa village pump where the primates could draw water (andamuse the children). Around the periphery of the buildingwere smaller cages. (Horrocks postcard).
The Pheasantry & Penguin House was erected in 1888.Inside was a huge glass tank where the penguins were fedat regular intervals, and visitors could watch them ‘flying’underwater’. Pheasants were kept in the cage to the rightof the main building, with eagles in the annex at theextreme left. (Horrocks postcard).
The IndianTemple & Grotto originated in 1870as a fanciful feature. In later years it was known as the Indi-an Rockery. (Horrocks postcard).
T h eOpen-Air Dancing Platform was
created in the 1850s, being provided with a timber floor.In the background (right) is the Small Lake, constructed in1843, but later called the Firework Lake, because of thespectacular firework displays staged there against a scenicbackground known as the ‘Picture’. A background is visi-ble, probable the one used in 1904. (Horrocks postcard).
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But the acreage wasincreased and many innova-tions were brought in. Thefirst guide book was issuedin 1847 and mentioned anenlarged zoological collec-tion, a maze and a race-course. The really spectacu-lar firework displays
were introduced in 1852,although smaller ones hadbeen held previously. Thefamous Brass Band Con-tests began in 1853.
By the time John Jen-nison died in 1869 after aprolonged and crippling ill-ness, he had built up aninstitution of which Man-chester was proud. Controlof Belle Vue passed to hissons, George, Charles,James and Richard, andeldest daughter Ann. Mostof the work fell uponGeorge, whereas Annplayed little part. GeorgeJennison died in 1878, agedonly 46. The administrationwas divided between thethree remaining brothers.Charles concentrated on thebotanical and legal side;James concerned himselfwith the zoo and firework
displays; Richard actedmore as a liaison officerwith the visitors.
Overall, Belle Vue wentfrom strength to strength.The Great Lake, originallydug in 1858, was enlargedin 1876 and
1882, and given a centralisland with clock tower,which was useful for timingthe hire of boats. Paddlesteamers were introducedto the lake, which was usedfor ice skating in winter. Theland near the Hyde Roadentrance was provided withall manner of amusements,including the Jungle Shoot-ing Range, Steam Horsesand a diversion calledOcean Wave, which gave animpression of being at sea.The grounds reached a pin-nacle of popularity in the1890s. The Edwardian peri-od and the time up to theGreat War saw furtherdevelopments, with yetanother generation of Jen-nisons playing an activepart. Most of the postcardswhich accompany this arti-cle are from the Edwardian
era.From 1856, Belle Vue
guide books were regularlyissued. I have them for1916, 1929, 1953 and 1967.The guide for 1916 has 32pages, a very detailed fold-out pictorial map of thegrounds, and pen sketchesof some of the animals andthe ballroom. (Later guidebooks included pho-
tographs). The book gives atour of all the animal, birdand reptile houses, startingnear the Hyde Roadentrance with the aviaryand lion and tiger house.Numbers on the cages tal-lied with those in the guide.There is a summary of areasnot normally open to thepublic, including the bakery,brewery, gas works and
TheBallroom provided accom-
modation for 2500 dancers, and was said to be thefinest in Manchester. The ceiling was ornamented withscenes of interesting places on the globe. The side panelshad pictures of animals in their native haunts. Directly out-side was the Open-Air Dancing Platform, mainly for Sum-mer use. (Horrocks postcard).
The Bear Pits andPolar Bear Cage were constructed between
1853 and 1855.The brown bears generally on show were ofthe type seen as street performers in Edwardian times. Thepolar bears were firm favourites; over the years theyacquired names such as Max, Lucy, Snowball and Thor.(Horrocks postcard).
T h i simage of the Bear Pits by Her-mann Fleury, in ‘The Star Series’ of postcards, is simi-lar to that on the Horrocks card. Fleury’s human figureshave a similar appeal to those of Lowry, although the styleis quite different. And with a few deft strokes, his polarbears look alive. (Fleury ‘Star Series’ postcard).
Theelephant is dubbed here asthe Children’s Delight. Over the years, several Indi-an elephants provided rides for the children. The rideswere discontinued in the late 1960s. The FireworksViewing Stand is in the background. (Fleury ‘Star Series’postcard).
The Chinese Café provided a more a-la-carte menu thanthe other refreshment rooms. Fleury’s artistry brings thescene alive; the fellow at the nearest table seems to havequite a following amongst the ladies. (Fleury ‘Star Series’postcard). continued....
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known single-deckers) alsopassed near the grounds.Belle Vue was served bythree railway
stations – Longsight(LNWR), Belle Vue(GCR/MR) and Ash-burys (GCR). Fromthe centre of Man-chester to Belle Vue,the cheapest fareswere by tram, beingone penny eachway; the bus fareswere slightly dear-er, with the trainfares a bit moreexpensive still.The cab fares from
Manchester Victoriawere 2/6d total for one ortwo passengers and 3/4dtotal for three or more pas-sengers.
The railway companiesran excursions to the Zoo-logical Gardens from vari-
ous towns and cities, eveninto the British Railwaysera. I have a handbill forEaster Monday, 23 April1962, for a train from Brad-ford Exchange to Belle Vue,leaving Bradford at 11.40and arriving back there at9.09. The fare was 10/- for
adults and 5/- for children.The handbill trumpets thehuge funfair, boating,miniature railway, speed-way, stock car racing,wrestling and dancing.
The war and its after-math brought difficulties.Many of the animal keepersjoined the services andwere replaced at the zoo bywomen. New and replace-ment animals were difficultto obtain, whilst animalfeed was in short supply.The government used partsof the grounds for militarypurposes. Some normalityreturned after the war, andvarious exhibitions wereheld, including dog, pigeonand fruit shows. In 1925,control of Belle Vue passedfrom John Jennison & CoLtd (created in 1919) to anew company, Belle Vue(Manchester) Ltd, with JohnHenry Iles as managingdirector. In 1956, this wastaken over by Sir LeslieJoseph and Charles Forte(later Trust House Forte).
firework factory, all ofwhich required a permit toview. Several refreshmentrooms are listed, althoughmuch of the food was thecold type, such as ham orbeef sandwiches at 2d persquare, Eccles cakes at 2deach and veal pies at 4deach. There was a sur-charge to enter some of theposher refreshment places.For the really affluent,Sandeman’s 1870 vintagePort was 10/- per bottle.
The guide gives detailsof how to get there by tram-car, omnibus, train or cab.Two different tram routesran from Mar-
ket Street in the centre ofManchester. Frequency oneach route was every 3-4minutes, with extra trams ifneeded. Circular route tram-cars (Manchester’s well-
The Figure 8 Tobog-gan was introduced in 1908 by James Jenni-
son, a son of founder John Jennison, after he had seenone displayed at the WhiteCity, Stretford, Manchester.The postcard was issuedshortly after.
TheFireworks Viewing Stand,which seated 4000, was probably erected in the1850s, when the fireworks displays were given a new leaseof life, each display becoming a scenario of a major his-torical event. Note the bandstand incorporated into theseating area. Lizzie wrote on the back of the card that shewas enjoying her holiday, but she doesn’t mention Belle
Vue. The card was posted inan envelope, c.1910.
The elephant appears to be enjoying his bathe, c.1910,watched by a small audience. Apart from children’s rides,the elephants were assigned to duties such as pullingloaded carts, assisting with demolition, and taking part inWhitsuntide processions.
D a t -ing from c.1932, this panora-ma shows just a few of Belle Vue’s entertainments,looking across to the Hyde Road main entrance. Includedare Over the Falls (left) and the Bobs Coaster and the Fly-ing Boats (right). This coaster, introduced in 1930, was aworthy alternative to the Figure 8 Toboggan. It was usual-ly known simply as Bobs, because of its shilling charge.
(left) It seems to befeeding time at thelarge monkey enclo-sure in the MonkeyHouse, c.1910. Theprimates were givenvarious appliances torelieve their bore-dom, including arocking horse, an ele-vator and a waterpump.
BELLE VUE - BIG AND BOLD
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Final closure of BelleVue Zoo came in November1977. Many of the animalswere found new homes. Fora few years following, open-ing hours of the Amuse-ment Park were severelycurtailed. By 1981, despiteprotests, it was obvious thatmuch of the site was to beused for housing develop-ment, subsequently carriedout by McAlpines and Wim-pey. Some of the last build-ings to be used were theExhibition Hall and theKings Hall, which hadattracted a variety of events.I remember passingthrough the Longsightentrance in 1978 and 1979to visit indoor antique fairsin the hope of finding oldpostcards.
Many of the postcardsof Belle Vue originate fromthe Edwardian period. Thebest known colour series isthat of Horrocks & Co, artprinters of Ashton-under-Lyne. A similar series camefrom Gottschalk, Dreyfus &Davis of London, in ‘TheStar Series’, printed inBavaria, the artist beingHermann Fleury. The photo-graphic cards are usuallyuncredited and lacking inpiquancy.
BBibliography:
Looking Back at Belle Vue, byRobert Nicholls, published byWillow Publishing, Timperley,Altrincham. The Belle Vue Story, by RobertNicholls, published by NeilRichardson, Radcliffe, Man-chester. Article on Belle Vue by PeterCrummett in Picture PostcardMonthly, June1980.Various official guides.
This isprobably a private-hire day’s out-
ing, arranged by a club, pub or Sunday school. The desti-nation may have been Belle Vue Zoological Gardens. Thechildren are wearing their best apparel, and the tramcars,new in 1904, appear to be in immaculate condition.
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eeBay notesNine bidders chased thisreal photographic card ofSS Titanic (right) inSouthampton Docks justbefore sailing. With a mes-sage on the back stating thecard was bought from thequarter-master (who per-ished in the disaster) thepostcard, which was neverpostally used, went to £521.Meanwhile, just a couple ofbidders chased each otherup on two Gladys Cooperpostcards (mostly ten apenny!), which sold for anastonishing £60 and £55.Top embroidered silk post-cards of the past month onthe internet auction wereSouth Africa Heavy Artilleryat £322 and South IrishHorse at £321. Sometimes,there’s little obvious reasonfor price fluctuations. Anembroidered silk ‘Australia’design has recently sold for£150, yet on its previousappearance on eBay wentfor £26! On the other hand,a Royal Naval Air Servicesilk made just £4.80.
A selection of Mauri-tius views sold for between£52 and £79.
Other highlights:Ballet, Nijinsky £245RMS Olympic, camouflaged
£207Josephine Baker £196Embroidered silk, Royal Dublin
An impressive group of 46postcards of miniature rail-ways and minor lines madethe best price in Dalkeith’sMay auction inBournemouth, selling for£330. Many real photo-graphic cards were amongthe collection. Other lots tocatch the eye were twotown collections: 158 Budeand district postcardsrealised £202 and 71 fromLewes made £184. In June,top lot was the 48 postcardsof The New Forest thatmade £119, more than twiceestimate. A Gale & Polden-published series of 22 Victo-ria Cross winners sold for£100, five times estimate.
The June sale containedseveral dealers’ stocks oftopographicals, offered on acounty by county basis.The highest realisation was£2,875 paid for 450 Lan-cashire cards, followed by£2,405 for 500 Kent. Othercounty ranges where theestimates were almost dou-bled by the realisationsincluded Anglesey, Buck-inghamshire, Caernarvon-shire, Cheshire, Cumbria,Norfolk and Warwickshire.Two collections of NorthWales each estimated at£600, one containing 500cards and the other contain-ing 400 cards, made £1,495and £1,553 respectively.
The foreign topograph-icals included a general col-lection of 348, with strengthin South America, estimat-ed at a conservative £160,which realised a surprising£1,380. A dealer’s stock of500 Ireland, estimated at£480, went for £1,610.
The sale containedover 50 general collectionsand miscellaneous stocks,all of which sold at figuresin excess of estimate. In thepublishers’ section, a sub-stantial collection of 4,800Bamforths with a pre-saleestimate of £500, realised£2,243 and 2,700 Salmon,mainly unused and modern,estimated at £55, eventuallysold for £425. The Shippingsection produced excellentresults as usual, with 450liners estimated at £300realising £863. 26 differentNippon Yussen Kaisha Linesteamer vignettes made£287. In the Artists section,the best realisation for a sin-gle card was the £126 paidfor ‘Who will get the Kiss?’by Louis Wain, published byWrench. 27 ‘Old Bill’ byBairnsfather made £48 andnine ‘Bonzo’ by Studdy £80.
The Cheshire LinesRailway was a very smallcompany and their officialcards are rare; two of themin the sale were estimatedat £60 and realised £80.
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The Warwick and Warwick auction held on June 9thcontained two postcards carried on the famous 1903Lifeboat Saturday balloon flight. Estimated at £1,000,they realised £920 each. Co-incidentally, the nextWarwick and Warwick auction also contains a rareballoon post card, the Daily Graphic Balloon Postflight, which crash-landed in Sweden.
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One of the attractions ofpostcard auctions is theappearance of cards thatyou just don’t comeacross anywhere else, andTrevor Vennett-Smith’slatest Nottingham salethrew up a trio of real pho-tographics featuring ahop-pickers’ demonstra-tion in Tonbridge c.1910.The protest demandedduty on foreign hopswhich the workers feltwere endangering theirlivelihoods. Each card soldfor £98, probably a snipgiven their rarity! Embroi-dered silk cards lookedimpressive in this auction,with realisations includingRoyal Bucks Hussars(£264) and Civil ServiceRifles (£132). Two big col-lections also caught theeye - 192 Shipping morethan doubled estimate toreach £791, while a 472-strong lot with high glam-our content made £720.An unusual lot of 215French-issued TuckOilettes sold for £216 and165 Royalty, mainly Ger-man and British, reached£156.
Artist postcards ofnote included 24 Attwellsat £192, a set of six HarryPayne Norfolk Lanes at£62, and six Payne cardspublished by Stewart &Woolf at £60. 183 Catheri-na Kleins realised £311and 107 Charles Dana Gib-son £228.
Among overseasmaterial were 50 Brazilcards at £108, a collectionof 71 Tasmania at £310, 17Italian Gruss aus at £156and a selection of 11Trans-Siberian Railwaycards at £102.
Single card highlightswere a Shell b/w advert at£126, two Boer War car-toons at £86 and £74, Kip-pax railway station at £86,and a sepia Brighton non-animated street scene at£66.
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TThe magic of HollywoodPhilip Yaxley and his bewitching postcardsThe magic of Hollywood
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Today the Hollywood areais part of Los Angeles andboasts a population inexcess of 200,000, butwhen the picture postcardwas already enjoying itsown golden age in the firstdecade of the last centurywhat became known asTinseltown was still a ruralcommunity of scatteredhomes and farms amongorange and lemon grovesoutside L.A. Then in 1912Carl Laemmie set up theUniversal film manufactur-ing company and a yearlater Cecil B. De Milledirected the first full-lengthfeature film, The SquawMan, for the Jessie LaskyPlay Company in a barn,which today houses the‘must-see’ Hollywood Her-itage Museum. Withunspoilt countryside, ideal
for Westerns, the proximityof a beautiful coastlineand, most importantly,year-round sunshine, thearea was just made formovie-making. Studiosmultiplied and in the earlydays ones established byMary Pickford, Al Christie,Mack Sennett, CharlieChaplin and Fox wereamong those pictured onpostcards - particularly bythe Californian PostcardCompany of California andthe Pacific Novelty Compa-ny of San Francisco andLos Angeles. Some of theformer’s cards are emi-nently fascinating as theyfeature scenes of film setsand the shooting of moviesstarring such greats of thesilent era as Gloria Swan-son, Douglas Fairbanks,Mary Pickford and the Tal-
madgesisters Norma and Con-stance. Eventually, as wellas publishing companies,some of the big studios,among them Universal,Warners, Paramount andMetro-Goldwyn Mayer,issued their own promo-tional cards.
Film fans who flockedto the picture palaces in the
1920s and 1930s toescape the harshrealities of the dailygrind in times ofdepression and inthe 1940s from thehorrors of war werecaptivated by theextravagant and
surreal lifestyles of their sil-ver screen heroes. Like fanmagazines and sensationalstories in newspaper gossipcolumns, postcards, too,must have played their partin fuelling the fans’ obses-sion with those movie godsand goddesses created bythe studio publicitymachines. Many cards were
Hollywood, particularly in its golden age from the1920s to the 1940s, was just made for the picturepostcard. Famous studios, legendary film stars andtheir palatial homes, movie theatres, restaurants andhotels, even Hollywood Boulevard itself, affordedpublishers so much material. Academy award cere-monies, premieres and other glitzy events added tothe subject mix.
Since my youth I have been bewitched by themagic of the flicks and four visits to Hollywood inrecent years have fired my desire to add postcards ofthe world’s movie capital to my cinematic collection.Shown here are some of my favourites from the 300or so I have acquired to date.
C a r d swere published in 1950 and 1951 to
mark the Oscar ceremonies in those years. The event onboth occasions was held at the Pantages Theatre on Holly-wood Boulevard. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts andSciences, which initiated the Oscars, was established in1927 by Louis B. Mayer , Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanksand others. (A-B-H Publication, Los Angeles).
(above) Lookingwest along HollywoodBoulevard this card, pro-duced by the Tichnor ArtCompany, L.A., waspostally used on 5 July1942. The Pentages,another of the famousmovie theatres locatedon Hollywood Boule-vard, was opened in1930 and was onceowned by HowardHughes. The AcademyAwards were held atthe theatre from 1950to 1959.
The Pacific’s Cinerama Theatre,located on Sunset and Ivar, is seen here at its opening inNovember 1963 when it staged the premiere of StanleyKramer’s It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. It is character-ized by the first geodesic dome in concrete anywhere inthe world. (Colourpicture Publishers Inc, Boston, Mass).
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1920s and 1930s and fordecades the Western Pub-lishing & Novelty Company.The latter was probably themost prolific of all Holly-w o o d
postcard publishers withmany of their cards of the“linen” type.
The correspondenceon some of these cardsmakes interesting readingand one in my collectionconcerns Latin loverRudolph Valentino’s death
in 1926 at the age of only31, an event which saw mil-lions of women go intomourning. Part of the mes-sage is “...Rudolph Valenti-no sure left some wonderfulcars, household effects,jewellery etc, the auctionsale was on for a week. I’d
produced showing stars’homes and two companieswhich published such cardswere the Pacific NoveltyCompany of San Franciscoand Los Angeles in the
The famous Para-mount Studios Administration block in the late
1930s. Jesse Lasky was one of the driving forces behindthe studio’s early success with Cecil B.De Mille its stagedirector. Laskey and De Mille produced the first featurefilm, The Squaw Man, in 1913 in an old barn, which nowhouses the Hollywood Heritage Museum. (Los AngelesPhoto Postcard Co.)
The premiere ofPrince Valiant at the famous Grauman’sChinese Theatre in 1954. One of the first cinemascope pro-ductions and shot largely in Britain, the movie starredRobert Wagner, James Mason and Janet Leigh. (Colourpic-ture, Boston, Mass).
This card was sent from Santa Monica to England inNovember 1941, the writer commenting: “I am sitting onthe cliffs overlooking the beach homes of the movieworld.” Clark Gable and Carole Lombard bought the houseat Encino in 1938, then after Lombard was killed in a planecrash in 1942, the house was Gable’s home until his deathin 1960. (Western Publishing & Novelty Co, Los Angeles).
Republic Pictureswere formed in 1935 and took over the Mack
Sennett lot in Studio City. Known as the friendly studio,Republic covered about 70 acres with 18 sound stages. Itwas famous for producing B Westerns and serials. (MikeRoberts Colour Production, Berkeley California).
THE MAGIC OF HOLLYWOOD
continued from page 29
Frank Sinatra seen at hishandprint ceremony on theforecourt of Grauman’sChinese Theatre on 20July 1965. Hollywood leg-ends have been imprint-ing their hand and foot-prints in soft cementthere since the Spring of1927 when Mary Pickfordand Douglas Fairbankswere immortalized inthat way. Sid Graumanthought of the ideawhen he saw NormaTalmadge accidentallystep in the wet cement. In Betty Grable’s case animprint was made of her “million dollar” legs! (Mitock &Sons, North Hollywood).
The shooting of Robin Hood at the Fairbanks-Pickford stu-dios in 1922. Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford wereprobably the biggest stars of the silents and Fairbanksplayed the title role in this film. He is seen in the fore-ground talking with some of the crew. A model of Notting-ham Castle was featured in one of the biggest sets everbuilt in Hollywood. (Western Publishing & Novelty Co, LosAngeles).
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liked to have seen insideone of his houses, but thecrush was awful. I’d surelike one of his saddle horsesand one of his beautifuldogs.”
Another commentreferring to Charlie Chaplinreads:“...isn’t Charlie a rotter inprivate life; I think the publicought to taboo his picturesfor a while. They say healready has another girl inhis eye....”
Messages such asthese provide a wonderfulinsight into Hollywood gos-sip of the time.
Whilst studios andstars’ homes make up thebulk of material, other cardsalso reflect the glamorouslives of the movie idols,who had to be seen at fash-ionable clubs, hotels andeateries. The Pig N’Whistleand Musso and Franks’ arerestaurants on HollywoodBoulevard which have sur-vived from the 1920s and
were once frequented bythe likes of Chaplin, Cecil B.De Mille and Clark Gable.
Historic movie theatresand the lavish premieresstaged at them are mostcollectable. Most famousare the Egyptian and theChinese, both opened bytheatrical mogul Sid Grau-man on Hollywood Boule-vard in 1922 and 1927respectively. But there aremany others, among themEl Capitan, the Pantagesand the Pacific Cinerama -all part of Hollywood’s her-itage.
An article such as thiscannot possibly do justiceto the breadth of the Tinsel-town scene, but merelyserves as a taster. Postcardsfeature many iconic build-ings - like the HollywoodBowl and the Griffith ParkObservatory. In fact, almostevery card in my collectionadds another chapter to thefascinating Hollywoodstory.
The HollywoodCanteen was opened by Bette Davis and
John Garfield in 1942 as a club for servicemen, where theywere waited on by stars like Rita Hayworth and DorothyLamour. Postcards could be mailed free from the canteenand were stamped “Free Hollywood Canteen.” Some-times, service personnel asked stars to autograph thebacks of cards and this one bears the signatures, amongothers, of Anne Shirley, Fortunio Bona Nova and HelenVinson. The Hollywood Canteen was the subject of a fea-ture film made in 1944. (Longshaw Card Co. Los Angeles).
The famous Hollywood Bowl has hosted performances bymusical greats from Frank Sinatra to The Beatles - as wellas the annual Easter Sunrise service - for over 90 years.The shell covering the stage dates from 1929. (Los AngelesPhoto Postcard Co.).
Sent from LosAngeles in December 1928, this cardshows the world famous Grauman’s Chinese Theatre onHollywood Boulevard. Grauman’s has hosted many pre-mieres since it opened with that for Cecil B. De Mille’s Kingof Kings in 1927. On its forecourt can be seen the hand-prints and footprints of the stars. (Pacific Novelty Co, SanFrancisco and Los Angeles).
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Many great postcard artists are virtually unknown inBritain. One of the best and most original was theSwede Einar Nerman, whose cards only occasional-ly pop up in dealers’ boxes over here, probablybecause most of them were published in Sweden,the vast majority by Axel Eliasson’s Konstförlag inStockholm. However, the fact that one of his theatreadvertising cards (published by John Waddington inthe 1920s) graced the cover of the 2009 edition ofPicture Postcard Values provides some evidence thatthe charm of Nerman’s postcard designs is notentirely lost upon British collectors and that theymight be far more popular than they presently are ifthey were only more readily available.
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is – some rare cards alwayscommand a higher price,but I’ve never had to paymore than £15). But whoexactly was Nerman?
Born in 1888 in Nor-rköping, Sweden, Einar Ner-man grew up to be a life-long lover of both the plas-tic and the performing arts.He studied painting first inStockholm and then in Parisunder Henri Matisse who,however, proved to be arather disappointingteacher whose most con-structive criticism of hisstudent’s work seems tohave been an occasional“pas mal”. But paintingwas only one of the inter-ests Nerman pursued. Healso studied dance inNyköping, and in 1919actually went to London,not as a painter but as aballet dancer to performat the London Coliseum.Yet after a short while he
found that the work didn’tsuit him and he returned tohis native Sweden. Twoyears later, however, he
was back in London, on
invitation of the greatentertainer and “Keep theHome Fires Burning” com-poser Ivor Novello, whohad met Nerman when hevisited Stockholm in 1918to sing in a nightclubcalled Rolf’s Cabaret. Hewas impressed by thedécor, which, it turnedout, had been designedby Nerman, so he askedto be introduced to theartist with whom hequickly became friends.Novello persuaded himto try his
luck in London, so that in1921 Nerman once moretravelled to England, intend-ing to stay only for a fewmonths, which then grewinto ten whole years. Hefound work as a theatre car-icaturist for The Tatler mag-azine for which he visitedtwo plays a week andthen sketched what hesaw. The magazine’s edi-
tor, Edward Huskin-son, is reported tohave told him that hedidn’t need a theatrecritic because “one ofyour drawings says itall”, which I think is afair assessment. Later,as an old man, heremembered these yearsspent in England as thehappiest and most pro-ductive of his life. His cari-catures of stage celebritiesand famous persona of the1920s, which betray, morethan any other, the influ-ence of Aubrey Beardsley,are simply fantastic andreally manage to bring theroaring twenties back to life,much better than merewords could do. Sadly, onlya few of these clever and
witty caricatures appearedon postcards. The goodnews is that there is abook that contains manyof Nerman’s black-and-white drawings of thetime (John Barrymore,the young Fred Astaire,Gladys Cooper, EleonoraDuse, Maurice Ravel,Igor Stravinsky, GeorgeBernard Shaw andmany more) together
with earlier drawings(showing, among others,Sarah Bernhardt and Isado-ra Duncan), and later onesfrom the years he wouldspend in America (e.g.Charles Laughton, JohnGielgud, Greta Garbo,Ingrid Bergman, ClarkGable, Alfred Hitchcock).The book is called Caught inthe Act and was publishedin 1976 by Harrap, London.It is still quite easy to find
As it is, though, Nermancards are rather hard tofind. Even on eBay they arerarely seen, which is ratherastonishing, given that all inall Nerman designed about1,000 (!) postcards. Many ofthem were published in
two sizes, the familiar 5 ½ x3 ½ in, and the smaller 4.1 x2.7 in, which was very com-mon in Sweden at the time.A checklist of Nerman’spostcards containing manyillustrations of his work wasproduced by Sonja Holm-gren and Sten Schüsslerand published in five partsby Upplands Vykortsfören-ing in 1995. Picture PostcardValues states a price of £18for his Art Deco designs,and £25 for his theatreposter designs. The latterfigure is fairly accurate, butthe former is much toohigh. I’ve found that atpostcard fairs you will nor-mally be asked to payabout £8 for a Nerman cardin excellent condition. OneBay you can get them evencheaper (most of them, that
T h eyoung Nerman as a balletdancer in 1917!
O n eof the few British postcards,published by JohnWaddington in the 1920s,advertising the show ‘Tonsof Money’ at The Pavilion inTorquay
The great stage actressEleonora Duse (1858-1924),whom Nerman sketched in1914. Postcard published byPaul Heckscher
Publ ishedby KC-Kort and numbered221
Card fromSwedish publisher AxelEliassons, posted in Stock-holm in 1923 continued.......
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This is, I believe aportrait of the artist himself
Published by Nordisk Konst of Stockholm
KC-Kort card
Cat design from Nordisk Konst
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and usually doesn’t costmore than a few pounds insecond-hand book stores.(Try eBay or abebooks.com,you won’t regret it). It alsocontains a brief but veryinformative foreword bySandy Wilson (from whichI’ve learned many of the
details of Nerman’s life).In 1930 Nerman again
returned to Sweden with hiswife and three children andmight have stayed there forgood if not for the outbreakof World War II, whichprompted him to leave hishome country once again,this time for New York,where he spent the next tenyears sketching the Holly-wood greats for the NewYork Journal American. (Abook with his drawings offilm stars from that periodappeared in 1946 under theapt title Caricature). Theremaining years of his longlife, from 1950 to 1983, hespent in Sweden, wheretoday he, rather sadly,seems to be chiefly remem-
bered for his design of theSolstickan matchbox, eventhough in 2005 Swedenhonoured Greta Garbo onthe 100th anniversary ofher birth with a specialstamp showing one of the
caricatures that Nermanmade of her. There aremany reasons, however,for remembering Ner-man. Beside creatingthousands of caricaturesof famous actors, filmstars and artists, that arestill as fresh as they wereeighty years ago, Nermanillustrated several chil-dren’s books, among themHans Christian Andersen’sfairy tales (The SwineHerd, and Thumbelina inthe 1930s), the stories ofSelma Lagerlöf (author ofthe wonderful Adventuresof Nils Holgersson), anenchanting picture book
called Journey to Ginger-bread Land (1942), the col-lection Fairy Tales from theNorth (1946), and a marvel-lously inventive bookcrammed with puzzles, rid-dles, songs and games forchildren, called Let’s Play(1946). He also wrote songsand composed music, mostnotably for his older broth-er, the socialist leader TureNerman’s (1886-1969)poems.
Last, but not least, ofcourse, he designed a vastnumber of postcards, mostof them in the Art Decostyle, characterised byheavily stylised human fig-ures and clearly demarcat-
ed bright colour fields.But although he had anunmistakable liking forgeometrical forms andsymmetries, his worknever appearsmechanical. In contrastto many other post-card artists who areclassified as “ArtDeco”, he didn’t caremuch for romantic andglamour subjects, andmany of his designs
have a wit and humour thatgives them their particularcharm and saves themfrom the artificiality andlifelessness to which otherpopular Art Deco artiststoo easily succumbed.They are, in short, trulyand utterly enjoyable.
Published by Axel Eliasson
(above) NewYear postcard
(right) Minia-ture NewYear card
Left: Classic Nermandesign
AnotherE l i a s -s o n s -p u b -l i s h e dp o s t -card
Nerman’s version of St George and the Dragon
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Ships of the Orient LineShips of the Orient Line
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its services from Liverpool toSouth America, the PSNC hadseveral of its steamships laidoff Birkenhead.
The Anderson andGreen companies charteredfour of them and when their
voyages to Australia provedprofitable, the partners exer-cised their option to pur-chase. In February 1878 theyformed the Orient SteamNavigation Company (with aninitial capital of precisely£44,642); the PSNC became amajor subscriber, leasinganother four of its steamshipsto extend the Orient Line ser-vice to Australia.
SS Orient
The company then orderedits first purpose-designedsteamship, the 5,386 ton Ori-ent, built at John Elder’s yardin Glasgow. The previousbearer of that name wasthereupon withdrawn, whilethe second Orient left Londonon her maiden voyage on 3November 1879, reachingAdelaide in 38 days.
The next addition to theAmong the sailing ships itoperated to many parts of theworld was the three-masted1,000 ton barque Orient, builtat Rotherhithe in 1853 with aneye to the Gold Rush traffic toAustralia but in the eventused as a Crimean War trooptransport.
The involvement ofmembers of the Andersonfamily from Scotland broughtchanges of company name toAnderson, Thompson & Co.(1863) and Anderson, Ander-son & Co. (1869). From 1866the Orient made regular voy-ages to and from Australia,leading to the companybecoming familiarly knownas the Orient Line.
In 1874 it began charter-ing steamships, first fromFrederick Green & Co., whoran services to India, and thenin 1877 from the PacificSteam Navigation Company.Following some reduction in
The ships of the Orient Line, which ran servicesbetween England and Australia for almost a century,are well-represented on photographic postcards,many of which were obligingly provided for on-board use by passengers, helping to promote thecaring image of the company’s liners as offeringcomfort, speed and safety.
While such cards date only from Edwardiantimes and the Orient Steam Navigation Companywas itself established in 1878, its history can betraced back to the founding in 1797 of the Londonshipbroking firm of James Thompson & Company.
This Oilette card num-bered 6229 in the extensive series issued by
Raphael Tuck & Sons depicts the SS Omrah. Its captionidentifies her as a twin-screw vessel, 490ft. long,“employed in the Mail Service between England and Aus-tralia” belonging to the early 1900s during the closeinvolvement of the Pacific SN Co. The 8,130 ton Omrah,built by the Fairfield SB & E E Company of Glasgow, beganher maiden voyage from London via the Suez Canal toMelbourne and Sydney on 3 February 1899. She continuedmaking regular round voyages to Australia until requisi-tioned in August 1914 for use as a troopship. In this role,she was one of the first convoy bringing back to OrientLine management in February 1915 but taken over againfor trooping duties from January 1917. She was sunk bytorpedoes from a German submarine off Sardinia on 12May 1918 - fortunately with only one fatality, as she wasreturning from landing troops at Marseilles.
SS Otwaywas one of the five 12,000 ton linersbrought into Orient Line service in 1909. Named after theCape south west of Melbourne, this 12,077 ton steamermaking 18 knots was steel-built by the Fairfield company atGlasgow. Providing accommodation for 280 first, 130 sec-ond and 900 third class passengers, served by a crew of350, she began her maiden voyage from London to Bris-bane via Suez on 9 July 1909. The Otway is here depictedon the card numbered s.5377 in the W.H.Smith “KingswayReal Photo Series.” Sent home from one of her early voy-ages, this example, which bears a penny red Edward VIIstamp, with an indistinct Paquebot postmark, carried theen route message “Getting along fine, all going well - gotthro Bay of Biscay alright. Had a lovely time at Gibraltar.Sun is warm, wind cold, sea lovely blue, very calm. Love,George.”
After 17 round voyages to Australia, the Otway wasback at Tilbury in November 1914, to be requisitioned andspeedily converted into an armed merchant cruiser. Help-ing to enforce the blockade of German ports, she wasinvolved in intercepting a score of vessels before being hitby a torpedo from the German submarine UC 49 northwest of St. Kilda on 22 July 1917 while serving with theNorthern Patrol. Ten men were killed in the initial explo-sion but the rest of the crew were able to get away in boatswhile the Otway was sinking.
Another of the Orient Line’s1909 quintet was given thename of Osterley, from thePark and Robert Adam man-sion in Middlesex, now aNational Trust property.Subject of Kingsway RP cardnumber s.5136, the 12,129ton twin-screw vessel wasbuilt at Glasgow by the Lon-don & Glasgow Iron Ship-building Co. Ltd. She maderound trips to Australiafrom August 1909 untilApril 1917, when she wasrequisitioned to carrytroops between Australia,
Egypt and Britain and also across theAtlantic. Released from Government duties in 1919, theOsterley was refitted and resumed regular services to Aus-tralia. In the summer in 1922 she was chartered for sum-mer cruises from New York to the Norwegian fjords andlater ran further cruises in between scheduled voyageslinking Tilbury and Brisbane. After 20 years intensive ser-vice, the Osterley was withdrawn in February 1929 and laidup, to be sold a year later for breaking up on the Clyde.
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Orient fleet was an improvedversion from the samebuilder, of 5,524 tons, namedAustral. She was “lit through-out by Swan’s incandescentlamps.” She served from1882, including a period as atroopship during the BoerWar, before being withdrawnand sold for breaking up inItaly in 1903.
The Orient, fitted with
electric lighting in 1884 andmodernised in 1898, alsoserved as a troopship in 1900-02. On return from her finalvoyage to Australia in 1909,after a career involving nearlyfour million miles ocean-going, she was sold to Italianbreakers in 1910 - for £12,000,whereas her original cost wasexactly recorded as £148,344.
Orient Line sailings to
Australia alternated betweenthe Suez and Cape routesuntil mail contracts securedfrom 1883 onwards required34-day passages via Suez, soonly occasional voyages werethen made around SouthAfrica. The Orient Line pros-pered, with more PSNCsteamers placed under itsmanagement. These and allfuture Orient Line vesselsserving Australia were givendistinctive names beginningwith the letter ‘O’.
Their popularity andpassenger enjoyment of
their voyages were enhancedby provision of a detailed Ori-
e n t
Line Guide, giving wide-rang-ing advice and information,with accounts of places to beseen or visited en route andmany illustrations, also pho-tographs and plans of theships themselves. This sub-stantial volume of 360 pageswent into its third
revised and enlarged editionin 1889, selling for half acrown - 2s.6d., notionally121/2p today.
More Orient Line vesselsof increasing size wereordered at intervals from theFairfield company and anoth-er Glasgow shipbuilder, start-ing with the Ormuz (6,031tons, 1886-1912) and followedby the Ophir (6,831 tons,1891-1922); Omrah (8,130tons, 1899-1918) and Orontes(9,028 tons, 1902-26.)
Built at Glasgow byRobert Napier & Sons, theOphir is now remembered forhaving been chartered by theAdmirality and fitted up to
serve as the
Royal Yacht on which theDuke and Duchess of Corn-wall (future King George Vand Queen Mary) made theireight months tour of the thenBritish, Colombo and Singa-pore to Australia and New
In 1913 the Orient Line ordered a largerliner, of nearly 15,000 tons, intended to replace its ageing1891 Ophir.
Construction of the SS Ormonde at the Clydebankyard of John Brown & Co. was suspended in August 1914,to give priority to war work, but resumed early in 1917 tospeedily complete her as a troopship. From November1917 the Ormonde operated in dazzle-painted camouflagecarrying troops - over 20,000 in all - between Australia,India, North Africa and France, before being refitted tobegin regular passenger services to Australia in November1919. Converted from coal to oil burning in 1923 andadapted in 1933 as a single class ship for 700 Tourist pas-sengers, the Ormonde was also popular running cruises toScandinavia and the Mediterranean.
In November 1939 she was again taken for war duties,to serve as a troopship, whose accommodation wasincreased from 1,500 to 3,000 according to requirements.The Ormonde was involved in wide-ranging operations,including the evacuations of Norway and France and land-ings in North Africa and Italy. In 1944 she was based atBombay for Far East trooping, then bringing home formerprisoners of war and others released after the Japanesesurrender. SS Ormonde is illustrated here from an “onboard” card provided by the Orient Line, on the back ofwhich is printed her 1945 schedule - “Rangoon 26th Sep-tember; Colombo 2nd October; Suez 12th October;Southampton 22nd October.”
In 1947 the Ormonde was refitted as an “austerityclass” ship carrying around 1,000 emigrants to Australiaon each of 17 round voyages, up to April 1952. Then with-drawn, the long-serving liner was sold later that year forbreaking up.
N a m e dafter a Scottish island, the 20,000ton Oronsay, shown here on an Orient Line “on board”card, was the second of five new liners brought into ser-vice in the 1920s. Built by John Brown & Co. on Clydebank,she began her maiden voyage to Australia on 7th February1925 and continued making round trips there, interspersedwith summer cruises, until requisitioned as a troopship inApril 1940. The Oronsay took part in the evacuations ofBritish forces from Norway and France. Embarking troopsat St. Nazaire on 17 June 1940, she was bombed and suf-fered damage including destruction of the chartroom. Cap-tain Nicholls actually navigated her back to Plymouthusing a French motoring map and a penny ruler - a featrecognised by award of the OBE. The Oronsay continuedto undertake trooping duties until October 1942. Returningfrom taking Free French forces to Madagascar, she wastorpedoed some 800 miles off the coast of Liberia. Five ofher crew were drowned but the others were rescued.
(right) SS Otranto, the second bearer of this name, subjectof another “on board” card, joined the Orient Line fleet tomake her maiden voyage to Australia in January 1926.Like her predecessor Orama she was built by Vickers-Armstrong at Barrow-in-Furness. The Otranto followedthe usual pattern of round voyages to Australia and sum-mer cruises and also began calling at Palma in 1933 tocater for holiday makers. She was converted to Touristclass in 1935, with capacity reduced to 522 passengers.The outbreak of war in 1939 found her at Sydney; thereshe was requisitioned as a troopship, bringing the firstAustralian contingent to Britain. After a series of furthertroopship voyages she was fitted out for assault landingtroops in North Africa, Sicily and Italy. By the time theOtranto ended Government service in June 1948 she wasreckoned to have steamed 335,655 miles and carried145,448 military personnel. After refitting at Birkenhead,the liner resumed service to Australia, until returning fromher final voyage in February 1957. Her 31 year-careerended when she was sold later that year for breaking up atFaslane. continued......
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early in 1919, she was thenlaid up on the Clyde untilfinally sent for scrapping
at Troon in 1922.At various times during
the Boer War years (1899-1903) the Orient and Australserved as troopships, as like-wise did the associate PSNCships Oratava and Ortona.
As the PSNC becamemore closely involved withthe Orient Line, the Australianservice was styled the Orient-Pacific Line. This marketingname was changed to the Ori-ent-Royal Mail Line early in1906, when the Royal MailSteam Packet Companyacquired the PSN Company,
including its Australian inter-ests and the four ships thenoperating under Orient Linemanagement - Oroya, Orota-va, Oruba and Ortona.
11909 Quintet
In 1907 the Royal Mail gavenotice of its intention to with-draw them in 1909 to operateon its own account. Theboard of the Orient Lineresponded by financing thebuilding of a whole new classof five well-designed 12,000-ton liners.
These were duly deliv-ered from Glasgow andBelfast shipyards in 1909, tomake their maiden voyagesfrom London to Australiabetween June and Novemberthat year. The first, namedOrsova, was to continuesteaming for the Orient Line
until 1936. She was followedby sister ships named Otway(torpedoed in 1917); Osterley(1909-30); Otranto (wreckedin 1918) and Orvieto (1909-30). These last two linerswere built by the Workman,Clark company at Belfast.
Another new liner, fromthe John Brown yard onClydebank, was added to theOrient Line fleet in 1911. Shewas the 12,927-ton Orama,which replaced the 25 yearsold Ormuz.
The SS Orama had onlya short career. Converted intoan armed merchant cruiseron the outbreak of war inAugust 1914, she served untiltorpedoed by the Germansubmarine U-62 on 19 Octo-ber 1917 while helping toescort a convoy south of Ire-land.
Zealand, returning by way ofAfrica and Canada. An attrac-tive first-hand account of thisextensive tour, handwrittenand delightfully illustrated bya talented member of thecrew, Petty Officer HarryPrice, was published in fac-simile in 1980.
The Ophir resumedscheduled round voyages toAustralia and some summercruising until taken overagain by the Admiralty, toserve as an armed merchantcruiser from March 1915 untilthe end of the war. Paid off
“On board the RMS Orford” was theheading printed on this card, posted at Copenhagen, firstport of call on one of her Scandinavian cruises, on 18August 1930. Its message to a lady in Derbyshire was suc-cinct: “My darling Molly, This is the boat. At the momentCharlie, Urs and Mary are in bed, being seasick. Best lovefrom Pelle.” Fourth in the Orient Line’s postwar buildingprogramme, the 19,941 ton Orford, named after a head-land in Suffolk, was another product of the Vickers-Arm-strong yard at Barrow-in-Furness. She had first cruised toNorway and the Mediterranean in the summer of 1928before leaving Tilbury on 13 October 1928 for her maidenvoyage to Australia. After 11 years of these regular trips,the Orford was requisitioned as a troopship. On 1 June1940, involved with operations off Marseilles, she wasattacked by German bombers and set on fire; 14 of hercrew were killed. Tugs moved the stricken liner to groundin a small cove, where she became the first Orient Line vic-tim of World War II. In 1947 the hulk was refloated andtowed to Savona, Italy, for breaking up.
(below) This Orient Line “On Board” card offers a view ofthe SS Orontes in a Norwegian fjord. Reviving the name ofthe earlier liner of 1902-26 vintage, this 20,097 ton vessel(marginally the largest of the five sister ships of the 1920s)was delivered from the Vickers-Armstrong yard in 1929, tobegin her maiden voyage to Australia on 29 October thatyear. Her scheduled round trips, diversified into summercruises and a one-off 6 week tour of the Caribbean in 1933,were maintained until the Orontes was taken in April 1940for duty as a troopship - with nominal accommodation for3,226 men, many in hammocks. Usually carrying ratherfewer, the Orontes made numerous trooping voyages,including landings in North Africa and Sicily. On one occa-sion in 1943 the latter included 4,000 men getting ashoreby her landing barges within two hours. The Orontes latercarried many troops in the Far East. From September 1939until August 1945 she is credited with carrying 139,167 per-sonnel and steaming 371,409 miles on these duties. TheOrontes, released by Government in April 1947, was recon-ditioned as a one-class ship and resumed services to Aus-
tralia, continuing until 1962, when she was sold forbreaking up at Valencia, Spain.
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right) Shown here on a company card with the printedaddress “On board the Orient Line RMS Orion”, this23,371 ton liner was launched at the Vickers-Armstrongyard, Barrow-in-Furness, on 7 December 1934, initiated bya wireless message from Brisbane by the Duke of Glouces-ter, Governor-General of Australia. Noteworthy for herinnovative design, with single funnel and mast, the Orionoffered superior facilities and accommodation extendingover eight decks, for 486 first and 653 third class passen-gers, served by a crew of 466. After a shake-down cruiseto the Mediterranean in August 1935, she began hermaiden voyage to Australia on 28 September. Theseround trips, along with some summer cruises, continueduntil August 1939, when she was requisitioned - beforethe outbreak of war - to carry 2,500 Australian troops and38 nurses to Egypt. The Orion was fitted up as a regulartroopship early in 1940, eventually steaming a total of380,000 miles and carrying 175,000 service personnel,before release from Government duty in April 1946. Afterbeing reconditioned by her builders, she resumed voyagesto Australia in 1947; in 1954 she was placed on the trans-Pacific service linking Sydney, Auckland, Vancouver andSan Francisco. Withdrawn in 1963, the Orion was brieflyused as a hotel ship at Hamburg before being broken up inBelgium.
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WWorld War I
During the 1914-18 war allavailable Orient Line vesselswere taken for Governmentduties as armed merchantcruisers or troopships, serv-ing in many areas. Four ofthem were lost, in total 45,200tons, representing half theOrient fleet.
The first war casualtywas the Otway. As an armedmerchant cruiser with theNorthern Patrol she was tor-pedoed and sunk on 22 July1917, when ten of her crewwere killed. The Omrah spentmost of the war as a troop-ship until 12 May 1918, whenshe was torpedoed off Sar-dinia. She was then returningfrom landing troops at Mar-seilles and only one fatalityresulted from her sinking.
Far greater casualtiesresulted from the wreck of theOtranto in October 1918, onlya few weeks before the end ofthe war, throughout whichthis liner had served as anarmed merchant cruiser andtroop transport. In a convoyfrom New York heading forLiverpool she came into colli-sion with the SS Kashmir andran aground on the Isle ofIslay, where she broke in two.Over 400 lives were lost inthis tragic accident.
In the event, the four for-mer PSNC ships acquired byRoyal Mail in 1906 continuedoperating under Orient Linemanagement but the Oroya
was sent to the breakers in1909 and the Ortava wasscrapped in 1919 after serv-ing as an armed merchantcruiser. The Ortona, as atroopship, was torpedoed inthe Mediterranean in 1917,while the Oruba had earlierbeen made into a breakwateroff Greece.
With its own remainingliners only released fromGovernment duties at inter-vals during 1919, the OrientLine faced a difficult postwarsituation. This was easedwhen 51% of its shares wereacquired by the larger P & OCompany, with which it haddeveloped co-operationthrough joint mail contracts.The Orient Line still main-tained its own separate iden-tity.
Between the Wars
Immediate needs for replace-ment of wartime losses werepartly met in 1919-21 by pur-chase from the Shipping Con-troller of three former Nord-Deutscher Lloyd liners sur-rendered to Britain as warreparations. These were refit-ted and named Omar,Orcades and Ormuz (II), toserve for a few years while awhole new class of five20,000-ton liners was beingbuilt.
First to be delivered wasthe Orama, built by Vickers-Armstrong at Barrow-in-Fur-ness. Replacing the ex-Ger-man Omar, which was sold
off, she began her maidenLondon-Brisbane voyage on15 November 1924.
She was followed in1925-6 by the Oronsay andthe second bearer of thename Otranto, then in 1928by the Orford and then sec-ond Orontes in 1929.
Withdrawal of the othertwo ex-German liners andolder Orient Line vessels wasfacilitated by these additionsto the fleet, which was furtherenhanced in the next decadeby the delivery in 1935 of the23,371 ton Orion and her sis-ter ship Orcades (II) in 1937,both from the Vickers-Arm-strong yard.
These two single-funnelliners were trend-setters,architect-designed and innov-ative in their increased provi-sion of public rooms andfacilities. They initiallyaccommodated about 480first and 650 tourist class pas-sengers.
World War II
The Orion continued in ser-vice until 1963 but theOrcades was torpedoed by aGerman submarine in 1942.In 1939 the Orient Line had afleet of eight modern shipsand had recently extended itsservice to include NewZealand. Within a few weeksof the outbreak of war in Sep-
tember 1939 all its liners weretaken over for Governmentduties, mainly as troopships -the Ormonde for the secondtime in her long career.
The first Orient Linecasualty of World War II wasthe Orford, bombed in June1940 in the Mediterranean. Afew days later, on 8 June, theOrama was sunk off Norwayby German battleships; 19 ofher crew were killed and 280taken prisoner but she had notroops on board at the time ofsinking.
Two more Orient Linevessels were lost to enemyaction within two days ofeach other early in October1942. The Oronsay was torpe-doed off the coast of WestAfrica, while the Orcades fellvictim to the U-172 some 300miles from the Cape of GoodHope. She had about 1,000 onboard; 48 of them were killedbut the others were rescuedby the Polish steamer Nar-wick.
In all, the wartime lossesof the Orient Line left it withonly 78,476 tons of its 1939total fleet tonnage of 161,858.
During and after the war,the Orient Line managed sev-eral Dutch liners, two ofwhich were lost to enemyaction, and others such as theEmpire Orwell, formerly thePretoria, fitted out as a troop-
The first of our four postwarships built to the orders of the Orient Line by Vickers-
Armstrong was the 28,472 ton Orcades of 1948, given theclassical Latin name of the Orkney Islands. She was in factthe third bearer of this name, which had earlier beenbestowed on the surrendered German ships Prinz Ludwigfor her service with the Orient Line in 1921-25. It was thenrevived for the 1937 sister ship of the Orion. This secondOrcades had made only five round voyages to Australiabefore being taken over in 1939 as a troopship, which wassunk by torpedoes from a German submarine off the Capeof Good Hope in October 1942. Her successor started hermaiden voyage to Australia on 14 December 1948, makingup to 24 knots with a passage time of 28 days, six shorterthan the usual prewar schedule. From 1958 the Orcadesserved the Australia TransPacific route. In 1962 she wastransferred to P&O ownership, refitted in 1964 as a one-class tourist vessel for 1,635 passengers, mostly engagedin cruising until sold off in 1973 for breaking up in Taiwan.She is depicted here on an Orient Line “on board” post-card of the 1950s.
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The introduction of theOriana was linked to thetransfer of the Orient Line ter-minal base from Tilbury toSouthampton. Much-admiredfor her style, elegance andcontemporary design, sheoriginally accommodatednearly 2,000 passengers,reduced to 1,700 in 1973when she became a one-classcruise liner.
In this role, latterlybased at Sydney, the Ori-
ana continued in service untilsold off in 1986, to passthrough various ownershipsin Japan and China beforeeventually being scrapped in2005.
Meanwhile, the OrientLine itself had passed intohistory. The company styledP&O-Orient (Passenger Ser-vices) Ltd. was formed in1960 to operate the ships ofboth companies and in 1965P&O bought up the remain-ing 49% shareholding in theOrient Line, which thusbecame its wholly-ownedsubsidiary.
In 1966 the name P&O-Orient Line was dropped andthe four remaining liners -Orcades, Oronsay, Orsovaand Oriana - were incorporat-ed into the general P&O fleet.
The Orient Line thus lostits separate historic identitybut postcards help to recall itsheyday and the ships that for-merly ran its services.
ship after surrender in May1945, until 1975.
LLater Years
The Orient Line resumed ser-vices to Australia on its ownaccount early in 1947,strengthened by deliveryfrom Vickers-Armstrong of itsfirst postwar vessel, the thirdto be given the nameOrcades. Starting her
maiden voyage to Australia inDecember 1948, this 28,472-ton liner had a speed of 24knots, taking 28 days to Aus-tralia, compared with theusual pre-war time of 34days.
Further deliveries to theOrient Line fleet from Barrow-in-Furness were the secondbearers of the names Oron-say (28,136 tons, 1961) andOrsova (29,091 tons, 1954).
These enabled the Ori-ent Line to inaugurate in 1954a trans-Pacific service on theroute Sydney-Auckland-Suva-Honolulu-Victoria-SanFrancisco. This was laterincreased by addition of P &O vessels and styled the Ori-ent & Pacific Line.
The company’s last andlargest liner, the 41,910 tonOriana, was completed byVickers-Armstrong in 1960, tomake her maiden voyage inDecember to Australia andthen on the service Sydney-
Shown here on a postcard“printed and published by J. Salmon Ltd., Sevenoaks,
Eng.”, the SS Oriana was the last, largest and most elegantof the Orient Line fleet. This 41,910 ton liner was launchedby Princess Alexandra on 3 November 1959 at the Vickers-Armstrong yard, whence she was delivered to make hermaiden voyage in November 1960 - actually to Lisbonbefore starting her first trip to Australia on 3 December.With a service speed of 27.5 knots, she reached Sydney in27 days. From 1960 the Orient Line made Southampton itsterminal port, particularly for cruising, as air travel super-seded long distance ocean passages. The Oriana becameessentially a cruise liner. On one notable voyage in 1971she sailed round the world in 66 days, calling at 19 ports.With single-class accommodation for 1,700 passengersafter a 1973 re-fit, the Oriana ran cruises mostly from Syd-ney. From 1965 the liner passed completely into P&O reg-istry, thus ending the identity of the Orient Line. In 1986she was withdrawn, to be sold to Japan and then China,through various ownerships and uses, before beingscrapped in 2005.
In addition to cards featuring its liners, the Orient Line alsoprovided passengers on some of them with sepia photo-graphic cards showing aspects of their facilities, such asthis one captioned “S.S. Oronsay 1st Class Tavern.”
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Acknowledgements
The two main sources ofinformation about the OrientLine and its ships, to whichthe writer is indebted, are:Duncan Haws: Merchant
Fleets in Profile, Volume 1(P.Stephens 1978) andNeil McCart: Passenger shipsof the Orient Line (P.Stephens1987)
Another series of cards, headed “On board the OrientLiner.....”, not naming any specific vessel, offered cruisepassengers b/w views of classical and other sites in e.g.Greece and Italy, like this one of the Erechtheion at Athens.These cards were duly acknowledged as “reproduced fromnegatives kindly lent by the Hellenic Society, 50 BedfordSquare, W.C.”
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Graeme Harris of St. Helier, Jersey, relaxes at thesemi-finals of the 20/20 cricket at St. Lucia in May2010, when England won through to the competi-tion’s final.
to the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens(a resort for wealthy Londonersin the 18th century), not the 1840Vauxhall railway station. Rus-sia’s first railway ran from StPetersburg via Tsarskoe Selo tothe resort of Pavlovsk, whichwas popular with well-to-doRussians. A concert hall andentertainment pavilion was builtat the terminus, and the word“vokzal”, originally referring tothis pavilion, eventually wasused for the whole station com-plex. Later the usage of the wordspread to other large railway sta-tions in Russia. For furtherdetails, see the “Wikipedia” arti-cle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vauxhall.If proof were needed of the pre-railway age use of the word‘vokzal’ in Russia, it can befound in a poem by AlexanderPushkin that was written in 1813,and its first usage in Russian lit-erature can be traced to 1777.
Philip RobinsonScunthorpe(author of books on ImperialRussian postmarks)
Below: theTuck trade-marks andtwo of theirR u s s i a nOilette post-cards.
Sorry, LuiseAngela Davis includes in herarticle Scandal in Saxony (JunePPM) a postcard featuring a pub-lic lament for former CrownPrince Luise. She asks for atranslation - here it is.
The Public Lament
Luise, formerly Crown Princess of Saxony
Ah, would you know how lovedyou are
By the whole Saxony peopleYou would not have left usWe'd hoped that you would
returnAnd cursed your bad spiritOur hope is shatteredThe wish of the country, green
and white!
O, you are our own,The devil, deceitful and cunning!A devoted public, who love youThey have paid dearly.Now you are nearly estrangedNevermore come backReconciled now, we regretYour sad fate.
When still passed you byThe bitter chalice of the LordBecause you have been absentYou were away from the sick
childTaught us much repentenceAnd a thousand hearts pray: LordHelp conquer, guide to the goal!
Mark BaileyWinchester
Not surprisedWhen I read your commentsabout the LL card ofBournemouth Pier and youropinion that the legendary phraseWish you were here “actuallydoesn’t appear in many mes-sages”, I wasn’t really surprised.People like to make a postcardpersonal, writing words of spe-cial relevance to the recipient.What’s more, the phrase doesn’ttake up that much room, and myexperience of postcard collecting(going back almost 40 years) isthat individuals wish to fill theentire space available for a mes-sage.
Tim MickleburghGrimsby
Russian railwaysI was interested to read DavidRye’s article ‘Around Europe byPostcards’ (June PPM). TheRussian postmark inscribed withthe name of Tsarskoe Selo, StPetersburg Province, was in usefrom c. 1904 to 1918, and so the‘Oilette’ card would have beenposted on 5 July 1910, though asRussia was still using the Juliancalendar at that time, the datewould have been 18 July usingour Gregorian calendar.
It does seem that Tuck’sOilette cards were sold in Russiain the early 1900s. I have seenseveral such cards posted fromRussia, and in my collectionthere is a set of six Oilettes in the
“Wide-Wide-World” series enti-tled “Siberia” (sample scansattached). Although these wereclearly sold mainly in the West, Ihave seen at least one with aRussian postmark.
Whilst I don’t like to spoil agood story, especially one thathas been doing the rounds in var-ious forms for well over a centu-ry, I noticed that David Ryewrote that the Russian word‘vokzal’ (meaning a large rail-way station) owes its origin to aprefabricated form of Vauxhallstation, London, being shipped toRussia for the Tsar to inspect.I’m afraid this is a myth. TheRussian word ‘vokzal’ originallymeant a pleasure garden, andwhile it does indeed stem fromthe word ‘Vauxhall’, this referred
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Hamburg named!I was fascinated to read MichaelHauskeller’s article “Fond Lovefrom Daddy - an Englishman inHamburg” in the May PPM.After a little research using fam-ily history websites I have identi-fied the sender of the postcards.He was George J. Borley, who isshown in the 1901 census returnas a 44 year-old ‘tailor, employ-er’ resident at 127 BroomwoodRoad, Wandsworth (this beingone of the addresses to which thepostcards were sent). He livedwith his wife Mary E. Borley, 42,and two children George C.H.Borley, 9, and Mary G. Borley, 7.The family also had a domesticservant.
George John Borley hadbeen born at Hampstead in 1856,the son of George W. Borley,who is described in the 1861 cen-sus as a “commercial clerk,clothing”. He married theDublin-born Mary ElizabethWilson in Wandsworth in 1889.Their children George ColbyHewken Borley and MaryGertrude Borley were born in1891 and 1893 respectively.
George may well have hadclothing business interests inHamburg, and they may havecontinued to keep him awayfrom home, as he does not appearin the 1911 census return (the lat-est available). His wife Mary isshown there, living at 32Baskerville Road (the otheraddress to which the postcardswere sent) with her two childrenand a servant. George died in1938, aged 82, his wife havingpredeceased him in 1925.
Philip E Robinson FRPSL,Scunthorpe
Upside down!Has anyone else noticed themistake on the design of theRaphael Tuck-published post-card featured on the frontcover of the current PicturePostcard Annual? When theumbrella was waved in the air,the wording would be upsidedown!
Eric JacobsSawston, Cambridge
[Ed. - but then it could beseen by people looking out ofupstairs windows?]
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Semaphore captionedPPCs, post 1914
I was very interested in AllanHughes’ letter showing that thesemaphore writer continued towrite picture postcard captionsafter 1914. My June 1996 PPMarticle showed thatBender/PP&P Co printed thesemaphore captioned cards upto 1914. I noted there that bothBender and PP & P Co. disap-peared after 1914.
Since writing the 1996article, the 1901 and 1911 Cen-suses have been published andshow that Joseph and NicholasBender were German nationals,living in England. This wouldaccount for the Bender compa-ny “The Photo Printing & Pub-lishing Co” disappearing sud-denly after 1914. The whole ofthe Bender business interestswould have been confiscatedby the Custodian of EnemyProperty and would have beenoffered/sold to a British nation-al. This could have happenedimmediately in August 1914.(It seems that at that time keep-ing the business going was themain concern).
Allan Hughes’ letter showsthat somebody did buy theBender/ PP & P Co. businessand other Bender interests andcontinued to employ the Sema-phore caption writer. I do notknow whether we will ever findout who bought the Benderinterests in 1914, as the richsource of material from TheBritish Journal of Photographyseems to dry up on this front. Itis now clear that there were twoparts to the Bender story, preand post 1914
George WebberSt. Peter Port
Going football crazyI recently obtained six comic football postcards by an unknown (tome) artist whose initials are 'D.B.M.'. I am assuming this is a set,although there are no numbers on the reverse or, indeed, any pictor-ial publisher's emblem or other information, apart from the wordingM. WANE & Co. EDINBRO' in the bottom lefthand corner of theback of the postcard. None are postally used but, I imagine, thesewere produced sometime in the early 1900s. I have searched throughthe UK PUBLISHERS INDEX and ARTISTS' INDEX of yourinvaluable 2010 PICTURE POSTCARD ANNUAL, but can't findany reference to the publisher or artist of my six coloured comicfootball postcards - see scan of one of these attached. Maybe a PPMreader can throw some light on who the artist 'D.B.M.' is and/or theprinter/publisher M.WANE, EDINBRO' ?
Bryan HorsnellReading
edly in January 1908 asking if hecould come to stay. Emma madearrangements for him to stay ather lodgings and informed hismother. Whilst staying therethere is evidence that he tookcash and jewellery from Emmawhich she found after he had left.She tackled him about it and hepromised to return it but therefollowed a few days where hetravelled to and from London nottelling anyone the correct detailsof his whereabouts. WhenEmma’s body was found she hadapaprently been beaten to deathand died from internal bleeding.Frank was arrested in Londonand tried at Winchester Assizes.The jury could not agree on averdict and the then AttorneyGeneral later decided not to pro-ceed with a retrial on the basis ofundeclared new evidence.
The whole story of the caseis covered in a chapter in NicolaSly’s book “Dorset Murders”and it remains an unsolved case.
Just the ticket!The June edition of PPM couldhave been designed for me. Notonly are there the regular fea-tures and ‘one-off’ articles toarouse the curiosity but, as aship-wreck card collector, I amspoilt with two articles on myfavourite subject.
In John Marks’ article onthe wreck of HMS Montagu, inconsidering the number of post-cards he observes “there may,however, be more” than the 14 helists. There certainly are! I have32 different cards in my own col-lection and I was once offered acollection of ‘over 200 cards ofthe Montagu by a dealer butdeclined the
offer as I felt I hadenough representative cards ofthe wreck. I did obtain a bookcalled “The Loss of HMS Mon-tagu, Lundy 1906” by G.M.Davis and published by him in1981. I was attracted to the bookby a review which said it wasillustrated with postcards of thewreck. Whilst the book is only59 pages it does have 50 illustra-tions, 32 of which are postcardsof the wreck and two are post-cards of HMS Duncan, a sistership which grounded herselfwhilst trying to assist Montagu.
I was delighted with BobAppleton’s article on the loss ofthe Targis. The pictures lookedfamiliar so I immediately went tomy T.B.I. (to be identified) ship-wreck box and, sure enough,there were the four cards, two asillustrated, one of the threelifeboats as described and anoth-er which would seem to be theone Bob saw on eBay. To removeone from my T.B.I. box isencouraging; to remove four atonce is exceptional!
Now to the one where myresearch can give some moreinteresting information. Anotherof my interests is the depiction ofmurders on postcards and Iinstantly recognised the card atthe top of page 15 as one Ialready have. Mine also has thesame scant information providedby the sender concerning the dis-covery of a body. It was discov-ered by a group of schoolboysout for a walk with their teacheron 20th February 1908 and wasthat of Miss Emma Sherriff, alady of 36 years of age who hadbeen missing from her lodgingsin Boscombe since the 18th. Theaccused man referred to was oneFrank McGuire, with whomEmma had formed a romanticattachment unknown to hismother, who was a close friendof Emma. Frank was in the Armybut then both his mother andEmma lost all contact with himfor about eighteen months. Hehad apparently deserted and wasacting as a sales agent for artworks under an assumed name.He got into financial difficultiesand contacted Emma unexpect-
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A classic coaching innand its postcards
A classic coaching innand its postcards
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fling wager, ate 60 red her-rings, with three half-gallonloaves, and drank six gal-lons of beer.’
There were 300 acresof land attached to the
Crown and early tenantswere farmers as well asinnkeepers. That inveteratetraveller William Cobbettstayed there in August 1826and left this description ofit: “This inn is one of thenicest, and, in summer, oneof the pleasantest, in Eng-land; for I think that myexperience in this way willjustify me in speaking thuspositively. The house islarge, the yard and the sta-bles good, the landlord afarmer also, and, therefore,no cribbing your horses inhay or straw and yourself ineggs and cream. The gar-
den, which adjoins thesouth side of the house, islarge, of good shape, has aterrace on one side, lies onthe slope, consists of well-disposed clumps of shrubsand flowers, and of shortgrass very neatly kept. Inthe lower part of the gardenthere are high trees, and,amongst these, the tulip-tree and the live-oak.Beyond the garden is alarge clump of loftysycamores, and in these amost populous rookery, inwhich, of all things in theworld, I delight. The village,which contains 301 souls,lies to the north of the inn,but adjoining its premises.All the rest, in every direc-tion, is bare down or openarable. I am now sitting atone of the southern win-
dows of this inn, lookingacross the garden towardsthe rookery. It is nearly sun-setting; the rooks are skim-ming and curving over thetops of the trees; whileunder the branches I see aflock of several hundredsheep coming nibbling theirway in from the down andgoing to their fold”.
It was not only thesocial but also the adminis-trative centre for the area.Kelly’s Wiltshire Directoryfor 1895 noted that “thebench sits at the CrownHotel, Everleigh, on the lastFriday... in each month”.Towards the end of thenineteenth century the sta-bles attached to the innachieved fame by training aGrand National winner.
Nothing in the earlyhistory of the Crown, how-ever – not even the inges-tion of 60 red herrings – isas extraordinary as itsrecent history. In 2002, thelandlord, Gary Marlow,booked Van Morrison toplay in front of 1,500 peoplein the garden of the inn.When the singer cancelledthe gig a few weeks beforeit was to take place, Mr Mar-low took him to court.Although he won £40,000 indamages, he subsequentlyannounced that the inn wasclosing, and in 2004 wasgranted permission to con-vert it to housing. It seemedlike the final chapter in thehistory of the Crown. Butthat was before Zimbab-wean-born entrepreneurCyril Weinman bought thebuilding in 2005 to re-openit as an inn, with a commit-ment to making it a focusfor the local community. Asthe Crown’s website says, ithas now been “restyled intoa new Rhodesian-basedhotel and village pub, yetstill keeping the traditionalEnglish heritage and histo-ry”. A new chapter in thehistory of this venerable oldinn is being written – andthe inn has been saved!Cobbett would no doubthave been highly delighted.
Three years later, on 18December 1783, the BathChronicle carried an adver-tisement for a post-coachfrom Bath to London, viaDevizes, Everleigh,Andover, Basingstoke,Staines and Hounslow. Thejourney took two days andcost one pound six shillingsfor an inside seat, and fif-teen shillings for a place ontop. Initially, coaches calledat the New Inn (long sinceclosed), but before long theneed for a more commodi-ous establishment saw theold dower house opened asthe Crown. The first refer-ence to it as an inn comes inthe form of a news item inthe Salisbury & WinchesterJournal for 9 January 1792:‘Last Tuesday night threemen met at the Crown Inn,Everley (sic), and for a tri-
An early postcardview of a coach and four drawn up outsidethe entrance to the Crown at Everleigh.
Nowhere is the spirit of the isolated coaching innmore potent than at “The Crown” at Everleigh, onthe northern flank of Salisbury Plain. It was built inthe early eighteenth century as a dower house forthe Astley family, and was connected to the manorhouse by a tunnel which is now blocked part wayalong. In 1780, a new road from Bath to London viaEverleigh and Andover – “with fewer hills and quick-er than any other road” – was advertised as being“complete”.
A 1920s postcardview of the Crown when it was owned by
Wadworth’s of Devizes.
A car drawn up outside the Crown at around the time thecomic postcard characters were painted on the wall of abarn behind the inn.
A postcard view of the garden at the side of the inn praisedby Cobbett, and where Van Morrison failed to perform.
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TThere’s yet another sideto the “The Crown”,though. I’ll be the first toadmit that, when itcomes to comic post-cards, I’m no expert.But when I foundmyself one Saturdayafternoon at the Ever-leigh inn, and the land-lady mentioned thatthere were some paint-ings in an old barn atthe back that just mightbe by Donald McGill, myinterest was, as you canimagine, aroused.
Having run thegauntlet of assortedlarge (and friendly) dogs,unlocked the barn andcleared various items outof the way, I was con-fronted with six life-stylefigures painted on a brickwall along one side ofthe barn. It was obviouswhy someone had saidthey might be by McGill.They almost certainlyd a t e d
from the 1920s and,although time had notbeen kind to them, thecolours were still vibrant.
Moreover, they wereexecuted in such aconfident way, it washard to believe theywere the work of amere copyist. Six seaside charac-ters were featured – adandy, a fat man in aswimsuit, a fat lady
with a
parasol, a fat lady in aswimsuit and another fatlady in a swimsuit hold-ing hands with a skinnyman. Although they alllooked vaguely familiar,as to whether or not I hadstumbled upon a lostcache of original McGillsI felt unqualified to say –although I knew how Icould find out.
So it’s over to you,the readers of PPM –among whom are doubt-less scores of comicpostcard experts – toenlighten me, and theowners of the inn, as tothe provenance of thissplendidly unexpectedart collection – and also,perhaps, to suggest howthey can be preserved forthe future.
BULK POSTCARDS FOR SALECLOSING DOWN SALE
After advertising in this magazine for 8 years Ihave now decided to liquidate my stock on a first-
come, first-served basis. I have well over half amillion cards in stock which I am bulking up in1000-card lots.These cards are ideal for puttingon eBay with a starting price of 99p. The cardswill be split into 3 groups with many cards in
plastic sleeves. Many of these cards have retailprices up to £10. The group of cards are
Why not try a sample lot as there is a 100% moneyback guarantee if you are not
completely satisfied?
POSTAGE STAMPSI have also accumulated over the years vast quanti-ties of full gum postage, mostly in complete sets.These are fully valid for postage and are sold in
£100 face lots. The prices for these are Great Britain£75 Alderney £70 Guernsey £70 Jersey £65 Isle
of Man £65 Strictly postal only, but I'm only too happy to talk
on the telephonePostage and packing:- Postcards £5 - irrespective of
how many cards bought. Postage stamps - no charge
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two new stamps, one a £1 valuedepicting two stamp heads forKing George V stamps. The sec-ond stamp was a smashing 1stclass value with the Queen’shead front and centre and KingGeorge V’s head behind. Thisstamp was also issued in individ-ual sheets and as such cards canbe found used with
these stamps with a normal mar-gin (it is worth seeking outcopies used with top corner mar-gin pairs as in the margin wasprinted ‘LONDON 2010 Festivalof stamps: Accession of KingGeorge V’ – these will be worth apremium). The second stampsheet had four stamps whicheach depicted a George V design.These were the two 1924 BritishEmpire Exhibition stamps andtwo of the designs known as theseahorse stamps (a blue 10/- anda £1 green). I bought two sets ofthese cards as I found them idealfor collecting the various countrycancels and cachets available onstands around the exhibition. Inall I collected cancels for Ger-many (+ a blue cachet as well),Greenland, Norway, Monaco (ona special festival stamp), NewZealand (the cancel depicts aKiwi bird), Hong Kong (my can-cel was applied to a special festi-val show stamp sheet applied tothe back of the card but they alsoplaced a cancel on the front forme as well), Japan (a nice purplecoloured cancel), the FaroeIslands, Canada (depicting aGrizzly bear), Finland, Australia(featuring a Koala), Guernsey,Jersey, Korea and Singa-
pore (Singapore had a basiccachet and then a different cancelfor each day of the exhibitionand I managed to get a copy ofeach of the different day cancelsover two cards). There was also asquare cachetdepicting an
albatross head for the ‘PolarPostal History Society of GreatBritain’ (which includes the‘Falkland Islands PhilatelicStudy Group’ which is an area Iam interested in) and a lovelyblue cachet for the Olympic Col-lectors Club. These cachet cardsare now my souvenirs of theshow and make a nice collectionwhich I enjoyed putting together.The Royal Mail also issued a setof transport-related photographicpostcards which were availableat the show and which each borethe show’s logo on the reverse.Depicted on the cards are the fol-lowing pictures:-1) August 1911 – London toWindsor aerial post (early aeroplane)2) First World War – mail beingunloaded from train before distribu-tion to Army units3) Autumn 1934 – Morris Minorred van delivering mail on the routefrom Drymen to Rowardennan on thebanks of Loch Lomond (in my opin-ion this was the best card in the set)4) 1919. The RAF airmail servicefrom Hawkinge, Folkestone, to theBritish Army of the Rhine at Cologne(depicts an old De Havilland fighter)5) September 1911 – HendonAerodrome – people writing cards tobe carried on aerial post to Windsor(the world’s first regular airmail ser-vice, which marked the coronation ofKing George V)6) Post Office (London) Railway– Driverless train in an undergroundtunnel of the electric narrow-gaugerailway from Eastern District Officein Whitechapel through to Padding-ton Station (commenced 1926 – fullyopen by 1928)
The country of Aland hadissued a special stamp for theexhibition which depicted one ofthe towers on Tower Bridge. Tocoincide with this at the actualexhibition they sold a postcardwhich depicted the same picturebut this time showing the entireTower Bridge. This card had thestamp applied to the front in thetop right corner and it was can-celled with a special show cancel(another one for my collection).This card was quite reasonable atjust £2.
The Polar Postal HistorySociety of Great Britain had asmall publicity stall and if youstopped and spoke with the peo-ple manning this they offeredyou a free postcard, or two if youwere lucky. One of these featuresthe statue of Sir Ernest Shackle-
London 2010Every ten years a major stampexhibition is held in London andI really enjoyed the last one heldback in 2000 at Earls Court. Thisyear (May 8-15th) the event washeld at the ‘Business and DesignCentre’ in Islington (venue forthe twice-yearly STAMPEXevent, although this was muchbigger), titled ‘LONDON 2010INTERNATIONAL STAMPEXHIBITION’. Entry on the firstday was £10 but all other dayswere free. I went on the first dayand although a stamp event therewas no lack of postcards avail-able and I even picked up fourold postcards of Westcliff-on-Seanear to where I live.
Royal Mail attractionThe first port of call for manyseemed to be the Royal Mailstand where they were selling anumber of exhibition items. Youcould also pick up all of thisyear’s PHQ Stamp Cards, includ-ing the cards for the specialsheets issued for the exhibition,although these were actuallyreleased on 6th May, two daysbefore the show started. Twostamp sheets were issued, andthere are eight postcards. First upyou have the ‘GEORGE VACCESSION 6th MAY 1910’stamp sheet which is beautiful (atthe actual exhibition you couldbuy this sheet overprinted acrossthe top for the exhibition ‘BUSI-NESS DESIGN CENTRE.LONDON 8 – 15 MAY 2010’.This version was only availableat the show so cards used withthis complete sheet will not be ascommon). This sheet contains
Card ChatCard ChatMark Routh searches outthe tasty and unusual in
modern postcards.
Now don’t worry: it’s not my intention to start every arti-cle with something new in the Doctor Who world, but as Imanaged it last month I thought a double would be fun.Unfortunately, it was something whose issue I actuallymissed out on because I was out of the country, so I had tohunt them down on eBay. I am talking about four post-cards which came free with an issue of the children’s mag-azine ‘Doctor Who Adventures’ (as I do not have the actu-al magazine itself I do not know for sure what number itcame with but I have been told it might have been issue no.162 – can anyone confirm this for me? Or am I the only DrWho postcard collector who reads PPM?) The four post-cards feature the new doctor (played by Matt Smith) andhis assistant Amy Pond (Karen Gillan). They each appearon an individual postcard and feature together on thethird design. The fourth card simply depicts the Tardis.All the cards have the new logo across the bottom and areslightly larger than normal size. In their original formatthey came in a sheet connected by perforated edges.Already on eBay these are selling at more than £5 a set justfor the cards (which is more than the magazine cost origi-nally!).
Isle ofMan Post Office Stamp Card no. 66
(6), the design taken from The Royal Philatelic Collection
Royal Mail postcardfrom London 2010, showing postal delivery van on
the banks of Loch Lomond in 1934
A n o t h e rRoyal Mail London 2010 card. Mail des-tined for troops at the Front in World War 1is unloaded at a railhead
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ton outside The Royal Geograph-ical Society, London. Informa-tion on the reverse informs youthat Shackleton was appointed asan unpaid agent of the Post
Office for the Shackleton-RowettExpedition of 1920-22 and wasprovided with a stock of stampsand a canceller by the RoyalMail. Also shown on the front ofthis card are two King George 10shilling ‘Seahorse’ stamps whichare overprinted ‘Gough Island’and cancelled with a proof strikeof the special expedition cancel(this was a show special postcardproduced especially for this exhi-bition). The second free post-card, and not so many of thesewere given out, depicts the statueof Captain Robert Falcon ScottRN, CVO, situated near the Vic-tory Gate, in the Royal NavalDockyard, Portsmouth. Ofcourse if you asked nicely youcould have the special cachetapplied to these postcards (theone mentioned above), and if youwere very, very lucky you couldget two with the cachet and twowithout (just to be complete).During the course of the exhibi-tion there were thousands uponthousands of stamps, postcardsand other philatelic items on dis-play in the large two-floored dis-play area. You could also see oneor two special items on some ofthe dealers’ stalls as well.
Rare lunar souvenirOn the ‘Buckingham Covers’stand they had on display anactual envelope that was carriedall the way to the moon on theApollo 11 moon-landing spaceflight. This cover was also signedby Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrinand Michael Collins who werethe astronauts on this flight, andwho carried this cover. Now Icollect items related to the Apol-lo 11 space flight but £25,000was a bit beyond my pocket(although the envelope sold onthe first day – but was kept ondisplay until the final day whenthe buyer was going to collect it).
Although I could not afford theoriginal I was pleased with a spe-cial postcard featuring this coverwhich Buckingham Covers hadproduced as a free item for peo-ple visiting their stall and show-ing interest in the cover. Theywere giving out 100 of these perday. Displayed alongside thiscracking cover was a secondcover which had been carried tothe moon on Apollo 15 (one of400). This again had beensigned by the three astronautsfor this flight. Again this wasan incredibly expensive itembut again a free postcard wasavailable depicting this crack-ing cover.
George V themeIn all I visited the show onthree separate days and oneach occasion I visited thisstand and picked up my free
cards. As can clearly be seen thiswhole exhibition had a KingGeorge V theme and many of theitems mentioned above have aKing George V connection. TheIsle of Man Post Office had also
adopted this theme for astamp set which was on sale ontheir stall. There was also a set ofpostal stationery cards issuedwhich each depict a separatestamp design on the front withthe same design printed on thereverse as the actual postage.There are six cards in the set andeach one carries a black andwhite photograph of KingGeorge V in full military uniformat some official event. There isalso a stamp-related item in thebottom left corner which is takenfrom the Royal Philatelic Collec-tion (for which George V wasfamous - he was a very keen andknowledgeable stamp collector).Text on the reverse reads “Weare delighted to include theseexamples from the Royal Philat-elic Collection which are repro-duced by the gracious permis-sion of Her Majesty The Queento whom the copyright belongs”.These cards are fantastic but theone complaint I would make isthat there is no descriptive infor-mation about where and whenthe photographs were taken andwhat the stamp item is that isdepicted (now, as a keen stampcollector myself - and I also col-lect stamps on postcards bothused on the back and pictoriallydepicted on the front – I knowwhat these items are but for somepeople this might not be thecase). This set is still availablefrom the Isle of Man Post Officeand if interested I recommendobtaining it (check their websitewhere a set either mint or can-celled first day is £4.85 - inter-estingly, the site does not explainwhat is depicted either).
Cricket postcardsStan Beecham, I know, is a col-
lector of cricket related postcardsas he has not only issued his owncards but has also sought outother related cards which he haskindly sent me. A recent mailingincluded an interesting advertpostcard for A4 prints of manywell-known cricketers painted byDenise Dean. These are extraspecial as each is autographed bythe player depicted and the cardsare authentictaed as a ‘WisdenOfficial Product’. So if you are acollector of cricket memorabiliathen check out the website as shehas now branched out into post-cards, featuring Wisden ‘Crick-eters of the Year’ starting with1981. The sets are limited to just150 and the artwork looks great.The website is www.dd-designs.co.uk
Next month I shall reporton my trips to Shakespeare coun-try and Arnhem in Holland,which should be a mixed bag ofmaterial. Until then by all meanscontact me by email – [email protected] or bypost at 165 Raphael Drive, Shoe-buryness, Southend on Sea,Essex, SS3 9UR.
Polar Postal History Soci-ety card of the statue of CaptainRobert Falcon Scott inPortsmouth
Miss Smithand theG l a s t o n -bury Angel- one of 22postcardsin DianaMilstein’sbook ofd e t a c h -able post-cards
Buckingham Covers’ souvenir of their cover carried to the moon onApollo XI and signed by the astronauts
Many unusual things are sent tome by readers and contacts butrecently a postcard bookpopped through my letter boxwhich was a complete delight.Titled ‘Glastonbury’s OriginalMiss Smith’ the 22 postcardsdepict paintings by Diana Mil-stein who kindly sent me thiscopy with which she enclosed afascinating newspaper articleabout her work (a full colourdouble-page centre spread in alocal newspaper). This articleexplains that both the book,which is published by theaward winning eco-publisherWooden Books (based in Glas-tonbury like the artist) and thepostcards are printed with veg-etable dyes on recycled paper.In her letter to me Dianaexplained that Miss Smith is “acharacter I devised who turnsout to be a familiar archetypeto many of the little old Englishladies – she is rather quirkyand has an eye for magic. Shemeets an angel and has magi-cal adventures”. The paintingshave a child-like quality whichis really appealing and I lovedthe book and the whole conceptof Miss Smith and her angel,and having visited Glastonburymyself I liked the local feel anduse of the nearby well-knownlandmarks. If you would like tosee some of these paintings,have a look at the websitewww.misssmithart.co.uk wheremany of the paintings in thebook are shown alongside oth-ers from the series. The bookretails at £9.99 but Diana hascopies which she will kindlysell to readers for £6. If inter-ested email her at [email protected] and askfor details - believe me thebook is well worth seeking outand is a true delight.
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MODERNS(Cards published by Reflections of a BygoneAge. All coloured and in VG condition unlessstated) 1. Railway Specials 20-22 (3) - latest issues
..................................................................£1.202. Nottingham Trams (25).40p each or all for £83. Nottingham Eye. Postcards of the Big Wheel
(6)...................................................................£24. Steam around Britain (38) 40p each or all
32 available for ...........................................£115. London Life (20)........40p each or all for £6.50 6. Martin Rowson political cartoons (8)..........£4
7. Football World Cup 2010. Bloomsbury souvenir card..............................................40p
8. Battle of Hastings re-creation 1984 (4)........£2
J/V POSTCARDS - coloured 6 x 4 size9. Turk’s Head pub, Donisthorpe...................50p10. Narborough railway station (2).................£111. Weybourne railway station.....................50p12. Birmingham International Airport (2).......£113. East Midlands International Airport (2)....£114. Melton Mowbray Cattle Market (2)...........£115. Newtown Linford P.O. floods..................50p16. Coalville, signal box removal..................50p17. Oakham signal box..................................50p18. Blisworth, re-opening of canal tunnel 1984
(3)..............................................................£1.5019. Atherstone, Lock Wharf...........................50p20. Cricket (?!). Streaker at Eng v. Aus Test at
Lords 1988 (2)...............................................£121. F.A. Cup Final 1988. Princess of Wales
presents trophy..........................................50p22. The Swan pub, North Kilworth...............50p23. Cricket. Newtown Linford Vets XI...........50p24. East Leake P.O. multiview.......................50p25. Coalville, demolition of coal hopper.......50p26. Dunwich, fishermen land live WW2
mine............................................................50p27. Ashby-de-la-Zouch flood multiview.......50p28. Norwich, bus in subsidence hole............50p29. Redditch, Market......................................50p30. Ashby-de-la-Zouch, game shop..............50p31. Ravenstone, village stores.......................50p32. Royal Family at Sandringham Church
42. I’m waiting for you at Cleethorpes by JL Biggar pu 1917 pub’d Jackson CG..............£3
43. COMIC. Underground railway theme - EarlsCourt by Harry Parlett pu 1909 CVG............£2
44. CYCLING. FS comic designs CVG (2).......£345. CYNICUS. The Last Boat pu 1907 CG.......£2 46. EARLY. Dennis-pub’d 1896 series no. 4
Newcastle CF..............................................£2547. EARLY. Same series, no. 6 South Shields
CVG..............................................................£3048. EARLY. Same series, no. 8 Hartepool
CVG..............................................................£3049. GREECE. Landing the victims of HMS
Devonshire at Volo 1929 + funeral scenes. RPs (4) CG but one card missing corner..........................................................£40
50. Hotel du Nord, Cologne pub’d Muller, Lausanne VG.................................................£4
51. Hotel Grosvenor, Swanage pu 1932 CG...£452. Sackville Hotel, Bexhill-on-Sea VG......£1.7553. St. Ermins Hotel, St. James park, London
advert card pu 1920 CF...........................£1.5054. Grosvenor Hotel, London pu 1917 CF......£2
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Our review of PH Top-ics’ Election 2010 post-card last month com-pletely missed thepoint of it! (a memberof staff has beensacked). Alice hadactually left Wonder-land and stumbledinto the Wizard of Ozin Brian Partridge’sdesign! Thus DavidCameron was repre-sented as the tin manwho found a heart,
Nick Clegg was the scarecrow who discoveredhe had a brain, and Gordon Brown was the lionwho found out how to be brave. Very topical, too,with Andrew Lloyd-Webber choosing his‘Dorothy’ on primetime TV. Don’t miss addingthis seminal political postcard to your collec-tions!
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David Rye, editor of TheWelsh Lady newsletter, is anenthusiastic collector offolklore postcards, selectingmany examples from deal-ers’ boxes, so he thought itonly right he should putsome back into the system.Accordingly, he’s publishedthis postcard which wasofficially launched at aWelsh lunch in Romilly-sur-Seine in north-easternFrance to mark the 50th anniversary of twinning between Milford Haven and Romilly.The French town has four other twins, and all were invited to send a musical group ofsome kind to make up a two-hour ‘Spectacle de Jumelage’ in Romilly’s impressivemunicipal theatre. David and his wife Pat (both on the right of the postcard) took a Welshfolkdance group. The photo was actually taken in Dingle, south-west Ireland, but as thewaterfront looks similar to Milford Haven’s, they felt it would be suitable to give out toall the twinning delegates in Romilly!
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Poetic postcard tributeWelsh literary figures havebeen honoured on a set of 16postcards published by Acade-mi. Pictured right is shortstory writer Rhys Davies,while others featured are poetsBrenda Chamberlain novelistRaymond Williams. You canobtain a set by sending a largeSAE to Academi, Mount StuartHouse, Mount Stuart Square,Cardiff CF10 5FQ.
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55. LITERARY. Shakespeare series pub’d Faulkner. U/B chromos. I know a bank, Florizel & Perdita, Juliet & The Nurse, Viola & The Duke, Much Ado about Nothing CG EACH.............................................................£4
57. LITERARY. Dickens characters by unidentified publisher. VG (10)..................£30
58. LITERARY. Dickens Characters. Tuck Oilette3406 by Harold Copping CG.........................£3
59. LONG CLAWSON, Leics. 1940s village views pub’d Raphael Tuck in original packet.Includes street scenes but no animation. (6)VG................................................................£15
RAILWAY. TUCK ‘FAMOUS EXPRESSES’60. Series IV no. 9226 (9) CVG.......................£2761. Railways of the World no. 9274 (6) CVG.£1862. Famous Expresses series X no. 9972 (6)
SPORT63. Cricket. 1925 Kent CCC RP VG.................£2064. Cricket. Ventnor CC 2nd XI 1914 RP..........£565. Cricket. Brighton ground with match in
progress pub’d GDD in ‘Star’ series CG......£466. Alfred Shrubb of Shoreham, world amateur
long distance champion. Advert for Horsham retailer on reverse VG..................£5
67. Burton Leander hockey 1st team 1905-6. RPVG..................................................................£6
68. Kilham (nr. Driffield) ladies’ hockey team VG..................................................................£4
69. Guiseley hockey team 1914-15 RP VG......£470. Comic hockey by Crackerjack pub’d
Davidson. ‘A goal!’ CG............................£1.50 71. Aston Swimming Club, Birmingham
champions, group RP VG.............................£872. Football. Barnsley cup team 1910. Vignette
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DALKEITH LIMITED EDITION POSTCARDSRAILWAY AND CLASSIC
POSTER SERIESThese sets first made their appearance over 30years ago. Brilliantly designed by Frank Burridge, they were produced in the ‘Golden Age’size 5.5 x 3.5 inch (Golden Age) size in sets of sixin a special illustrated envelope. The first setswere limited to 1000, each envelope (except the very first set) being numbered. Theywere an instant success, and as their popularity increased, so did the numbers issued,first to 1500 and later to 2000 sets. Many sold out from the publisher completely andbecame sought-after collectors’ items. We present a selection for sale here.RAILWAY SERIES CLASSIC POSTER
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TERMS All post free. Please make cheques payable to Paper Bygones. Credit cards accepted. Refund if not delighted. Trade supplied.SPECIAL OFFER 10 different Railway sets £25, 20 different £50, 10 different Clasic Poster sets £25. All our choice of sets.NOTE Dalkeith ‘Cards of Style’ (unlimited series) are available from the publishers, Dalkeith Publishing Ltd., P.O. Box 4, Bournemouth BH1 1EW.
R1 Liverpool & Manchester £7R2 Somerset & Dorset £20R3 Stratford upon Avon & Midland Junction £10R4 London, Tilbury & Southend £10R5 West Highland £10R6 Midland & Great Northern £3R7 Lynton & Barnstaple £8R8 George Stephenson’s Achievements £3R9 Bournemouth Belle Inaugural Train £8R10 Liverpool Overhead £6R11 Liverpool & S.W.R. Posters (set ‘A;) £12R12 Liverpool & S.W.R. Posters (set ‘B;) £8R13 Leek & Manifold Valley Light Railway £8R14 Isle of Wight £6R15 North London £3R17 Great North of Scotland £8R18 Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway (2nd set) £6R19 North Eastern (Road Vehicles) £3R20 Corris £6R21 Leicester & Swannington £3R22 Railway Paddle Steamer Trips £8R23 G.W.R. Posters (Part 1) £10R24 G.W.R. Posters (Part 2) £7R25 Great Central £3R26 Weymouth & Portland £7R27 Flying Socotsman (Loco & Train) £6R28 Padarn & Penryn £3R29 More Tickets (another 24) £3R30 Cheshire Lines £5R31 Northern Belle Train £6R32 Welsh Highland £8R33 Severn & Wye & Severn Bridge Railway £6R34 G.W.R. & L.M.S. Joint Posters £7R35 London, Chatham & Dover £5R36 Pullmans £7R37 Invergarry & Ft. Augustus £8R38 More G.W.R. Posters (Part 1) £8R39 More G.W.R. Posters (Part 2) £7R40 Railway Guides (Part 1) £3R41 Railway Guides (Part 2) £3R42 Hundred of Manhood & Selsey Tramways £3R43 Campbeltown & Machrihanish Lught Railway £8R44 London, Brighton & South Coast £8R45 Metropolitan £8R46 Metropolitan & Great Central Joint Railway £3R47 Badges & Buttons (Part 1) £3R48 Badges & Buttons (Part 2) £3R49 Christmas Railway Posters £10R50 Famous Trains £9R51 Callandar & Oban £7R52 Southern Railway Posters £9
R53 Great Northern Railway Posters £7R54 L.N.E.R. Frolic Posters £6R56 Railway Posters of Dorset & Hants £7R57 Hull & Barnsley £6R58 Salute To The Great Western £9R59 Silver Jubilee Train £7R60 Posters of the L.M.S. £8R61 Railway Golfing Posters £18R62 Railway Posters by Terence Cuneo £8R63 Glyn Valley Tramway £3R64 More S.R. Posters £7R65 L.N.E.R. ‘The Book Lovers Railway Posters’ £4R66 Tickets For Everything (Part 1) £3R67 Tickets For Everything (Part 2) £3R68 Railway Horses & Their Brasses £7R69 Festiniog Railway £3R70 Talyllyn Railway £3R71 Railway Freight Posters £3R72 G.W.R. Posters of Somerset £7R73 G.W.R. Posters of Wales £9R74 L.M.S. & L.N.E.R. Joint Posters £7R75 Southwold Railway £9R76 Railway Posters of The Isle of Man £8R77 Railway Posters of Lancashire Coast £3R78 Six West Country Railways £6R79 Posters of The Southampton Docks £6R80 Coronation Scot Train (L.M.S.) £7R81 The Coronation Train (L.N.E.R.) £9R82 Railway Wartime Posters £7R83 G.W.R. Posters of London £6R84 Railway Hotel Posters £3R85 Railway Menus & Tariff Covers £3R86 L.N.E.R. Posters of East Anglia £3R87 G.W.R. Posters of Devon £7R88 G.W.R. Posters of Cornwall £7R89 Railway Posters of North Wales £3R90 Railway Castle Posters £3R91 More G.W.R. & L.M.S. Joint Posters £3R92 Railway Continental Services £3R93 Southern Electric £9R94 More Railway Services £3R95 Pre-Group Scottish Railways £6R96 L.M.S. Posters by Norman Wilkinson £7R97 L.N.E.R. Posters by Frank Newbould £7R98 More Railway Posters From Southern £3R99 Golden Arrow Train £6R100 Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway £3R101 Cornish Riviera Train £7R102 Flying Scotsman (Posters) £10R103 More Named Trains £3
P1 Early Transport £7P2 Toulouse Lautrec £3P3 Alphonse Mucha £8P4 Early Aviation Meetings £9P5 Jules Cheret £3P6 Ludwig Hohlwein £3P7 Shipping CompaniesP8 Automobiles £7P9 Early Theatre £3P10 Airlines £5P11 Orient Express P12 British Circus P13 Bicycles P14 World War I £7P15 Schweppes P16 The Beggarstaffs £3P17 Publishers £3P18 Entertainments £6P19 More Shipping Comapanies P20 Propaganda £7P21 Grasset & Berthron £3P22 Follies Bergere £7P23 More Parisien Music Hall £7P24 Coach Companies £7P25 Domestic £5P26 Recruitment £6P27 Early Cinema £7P28 Travel of the 20’s & 30’s’ £6P29 Lucian Bernhard £3P30 F. Lenhard £3P31 Racing £3P32 World War II £5P33 Christmas Shopping £8P34 More Bicycles £7P35 Jean D’ylen £3P36 Orient Line Cruises £7P37 More Automobiles £3P38 The Third Reich £7P39 More Cinema £3P40 Drinks £3P41 Animals £3P42 Beverages £3P43 Wagons-Lits by Cassandre £3P44 More Recruitment £3P45 More Aviation Meetings £3P46 E. McKnight Kauffer £3P47 Art Nouveau £3P48 Art Deco £3P49 Dancing £3P50 Wartime Humour £3P51 Tom Purvis £3P52 American Railroads £3
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LLANCASHIRE DANCE BANDS pre-1925. May say Quadrille, String orOrchestral Band. Dave Middle-hurst, 173 Blackburn Road,Heapey, Chorley, Lancashire PR68EJ. Tel. 01257-278527.WANTED. Postcards of the StoverCanal and locks, Newton Abbot inDevon. Tony Volante, 10 FalklandDrive, Kingsteignton, NewtonAbbot, Devon TQ12 3RH. Tel.01626-360758. £25 PAID for an upright real photo-graphic card captioned ‘Lusitania,first time at the stage’ (Liverpool).Condition essential. Harry Potter-ton, 63 Keyham Lane West, Leices-ter LE5 1RS.PLYMOUTH, DEVON postcardswanted: pre-1940s street scenes,shopfronts, social events andtransport. Contact Chris Russell, 22Wardlow Gardens, Crownhill, Ply-mouth, Devon PL6 5PU. Tel. 01752783006. Mobile 07971 224886.FLEETWOOD (LANCASHIRE) -seeking particular postcard. Pub-lisher probably Bamforth’s in View-card ET series. Early 1960s black &white. View of Old Lifeboat Houseand Slipway, showing tide andchannel with outward boundtrawler. Ian Hannah 01942-244497.POSTCARDS OF FULHAM plus Ful-ham-associated football. JohnMartin, 1 The Rise, Tadworth, Sur-rey KT20 5PT.KEYWORTH & PLUMTREE post-cards wanted, please, on approval.Help me improve our collection! I’dalso like any postally used cardssent to an address in either village1900-11. Brian Lund, 15 DebdaleLane, Keyworth, Nottingham NG125HT.
BETTER SHIPPING: passenger,cargo, naval. England, Germany,America, Russia, Japan. ‘Lusitania’launch, WW2 Nazi zeppelins, Nazipropaganda, Hitler enteringPrague, WW2 Eastern Front. Irishpolitical 1920s (not 1916!). Over-seas sellers welcome. Harry Potter-ton, 63 Keyham Lane West, Leices-ter LE5 1RS.
ClassifiedClassifiedCOSTLineage: 16p per word per month (1-3 insertions)
13p per word per month (4 or more consecutiveinsertions without text change)
e.g. 12 words: £1.92 for 1 month, £3.84 for 2 months, £5.76 for 3months, £6.24 for 4 months, £7.80 for 5 months, £9.36 for 6months.Minimum cost of single insertion £1.50. Minimum cost of multipleinsertions £1.20 per month.Semi-display (boxed) £7.50 for 3 col. cms, £1.75 each extra col.cm. (price includes lineage).These rates are inclusive of V.A.T.PAYMENT: All classified adverts should be prepaid. When calcu-lating cost, do not count street number, and calculate tel.no./postal code as one word each.PRESENTATION: Please type or write advert clearly, underliningwords required in bold. Include your name (and not just anaddress) within the advert.TRADE ADVERTISING: Traders advertising for postcards in the‘wanted’ section must conclude their advert thus: (T) if theyrequire postcards for resale and expect trade discount/prices fromother dealers. This avoids any misunderstanding by prospectivevendors. Dealers who fail to comply with this instruction will infuture be refused advertising space.ALTERATIONS: If any changes are required in an advert, or it is tobe resumed after a break, please make sure you resubmit thewhole advert.
POSTCARDSWANTED
ISLE OF MAN, GIBRALTAR, MONACO,
COURT CARDS,CUNARD.
Quality cards desired.MAX COLLISTER, 20 CREGGAN LEA, PORT ST MARY,
ISLE OF MAN IM9 5BETel: 01624 832062
COLLECTION OF LEADINGARTISTES of the American stage.Publisher - Darwin Silberer, NewYork. Chappell, 19 Albion Street,Brighouse HD6 2DZ (01484-722459)DISS & DISTRICT, 5 miles radius,especially villages of Burston,Shimpling, Palgrave, Dickleburgh,Scole, Winfarthing and Tibenham.Also Crested China of Diss, andNorfolk & Suffolk railway stations.D. Cross, 60 Uplands Way, DissIP22 4DF. Tel. 01379-651897.MABEL GEAR. Anything at allwanted. Terry Wilson, 11 GlenfieldAvenue, Doncaster, South York-shire DN4 0HT. Tel. 01302 858210.
DENTAL POSTCARDS wanted.Also postcards fromL U X E M B O U R G .Postage always refund-ed. John Lesch, 133 RueE. Beres, L-1232Howald, Luxembourg.
NORWAY. Early cards/Postal His-tory - Scott Simpson, 14 DowerRoad, Sutton Coldfield B75 6UA.Email:[email protected]
PALESTINEI am a collector looking forall series from all periods.Please send even single
cards. I will usually pay yourprice plus your postage
SALVATION ARMY postcardswanted. David Pickard, 1 BeauvalRoad, East Dulwich, London SE228UG. Tel: 020 8693 2585.
LIDSTONE, OXFORDSHIRE
A. Foster, LittleHeysham, Naphill,Bucks HP14 4SU
Tel. 01494-562024
FOULSHAM, NORFOLK. All consid-ered. David Child, 8 Seaton Court,Seaton, Torpoint, Cornwall PL113JD.BOY SCOUTS/BADEN POWELL.(Cards, Badges, Memorabilia).Comic & Greetings cards of Ply-mouth area and Royal Air Force.Graham Brooks, 28 Rawlin Close,Eggbuckland, Plymouth PL6 5TF.Tel. 01752 774467.
UK and AMERICAN ASYLUMSAND MENTAL HOSPITALS. Post-cards and ephemera wanted.Please quote (inc. postage). Mr B.Hopper, 26 Sandfield Avenue, Lit-tlehampton, West Sussex BN177LL. Email: [email protected] A.R. QUINTON, Salmon no. 2986Marine Lake, Rhyl (& miniaturerailway). P. Cove 01308-459738.
SHIPPING - the liner ‘BREMEN’
c. 1930s postcard or picture in colour if possible.Also ‘BREMEN’, the aircraft
which made the first Atlanticflight from Ireland to Canada in
GREECEPostcard collector seeking allareas of any subject relating toGreece including Costumes,Personalities, Royalty, Ships,Trains, Cartoons, Art, etc. etc.
Prompt responseJ. Tsatsas, 1A Netherhall
Gardens, London NW3 5RN
LEICESTER STATIONS - interiors ofCentral Station and Belgrave RoadStation (no reproductions, thanks).Also interiors of Tilton, Ingarsby,Hallaton, Great Dalby. Nick Miller,19 Bath Terrace, Newcastle NE31UH. Tel. 0191-222-5603.
NAPHILL, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
A. Foster, LittleHeysham, Naphill,Bucks HP14 4SU
Tel. 01494-562024
FOWEY, FOWEY, FOWEY, Corn-wall. Quality postcards, photos andephemera wanted. Marcus Lewis01726 832089. Mobile [email protected]
PERMANENTLYREQUIRED.
Japanese hand-painted/lacquered postcards. All
types considered (inc. oils).Also wanted: pre-1950postcards of Bicester,
Burford, Eynsham, Faringdon, Woodstock,
Yarnton, Fairford (Glos.).Please respect my dateline
and forward to Ralph Wolfe-Emery,
3 Chapel Lane, Standlake,Witney, Oxon OX29 7SE.
Tel. 01865-300379.
SUFFOLK, NORFOLK and Cam-bridgeshire Postcards published byF.G. Pawsey & Co. Ltd and Lang-horn Pawsey & Co. (L.P. & Co.) ofBury St. Edmunds. Bob Pawsey, 82Westerfield Road, Ipswich IP4 2XN.Tel: 01473 252893.DULWICH, CAMBERWELL, CAT-FORD postcards wanted. DavidPickard, 1 Beauval Road, LondonSE22 8UG. Telephone 020 86932585.
PLEASE MENTION PICTURE POSTCARD MONTHLYWHEN REPLYING TO ADVERTISERS
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POSTCARDSFOR SALE WEB SITESPOSTCARDS
WANTED
MISCELLANY
CCOUNTY DURHAM, WALES,RHODESIA. For my own collection:Easington/Colliery, South Hettonand Northern Rhodesia. For resale,better cards of Glamorgan, Mon-mouthshire and Radnorshire. JohnGray, 25 Station Road, Knighton,Powys LD7 1DT. Tel/Fax 01547-528591 (T)FALKLAND ISLANDS pre-1982postcards and used envelopeswanted on approval. Alan Brunt, 56Redehall Road, Smallfield, SurreyRH6 9QL. [email protected]
Postcards of GHOSTS orHAUNTED PLACESrequired by serious
collector - must eithershow apparition or text
refer to hauntingNo Halloween, comic or
Cornish Litany pleaseAlso looking for GWR ‘Legendland’ series
Approvals welcomed anddealt with promptly,
postage refundedG.M Wheeldon,
9 Ashtree Court, FelthamHill Road, Ashford,
Middlesex TW15 2BUTel: 01784 246399 (eve)
SYNAGOGUES (WORLDWIDE)JEWISH PALESTINE (PRE-1948)
BRITISH FORCES PALESTINE JEWISH STREET SCENES (WORLDWIDE) PALESTINE
HOTELS (INC. CACHETS) GRUSS AUS PALESTINE
OR Any other interesting postcards on
a Jewish or Palestine theme eagerly sought by collector.
YORKSHIRE CRICKETERS ANDCRICKET TEAMS. Private collector.Details to: Ron Deaton, 20 Hill TopRoad, Harrogate HG1 3AN. 01423507690.DEVON AND CORNWALL cardsrequired. J.R. Adams, 65 BurnleyRoad, Newton Abbot, Devon TQ121YD.CRICKET - anything considered.Local teams if named or located.Approvals to - G. Jennings, 4Henry Road, West Bridgford, Not-tingham - Postage refunded.
PORTLING, PORT O’WARREN - inKirkcudbrightshire wanted. BrianCox, Kirknewton House, Kirknew-ton, Wooler NE71 6XF or [email protected] - All areas and subjectsparticularly aviation up to 1945. P.Dickerson, 20 Easson Road, Red-car, TS10 1HJ.SUSSEX RAILWAY STATIONS:Ardingly, Barcombe, East Grin-stead, Haywards Heath, HorstedKeynes, Lewes, Newick & Chailey,Sheffield Park and West Hoathly.Send cards/photographs to J.Young, 28 The Garstons, Bookham,Surrey KT23 3DS. Postage refund-ed.NORFOLK AND NORWICH CINE-MA postcards and ephemera want-ed. P. Yaxley, ‘Polperro’, SilfieldRoad, Wymondham, Norfolk NR189AU. (Tel: 01953 603549).
EXHIBITION CARDS wanted by col-lector, especially cards of standsand advertising cards, no foreignexhibitions wanted. Also ChurchMissionary cards, Crystal Palace,and topo’s for the following areas:Anerley, Beckenham, Elmers End,Hayes, Keston, Penge and WestWickham. Postage paid. BillTonkin, 23 Bramley Way, WestWickham, Kent BR4 9NT.
FULL SET (54 Postcards) BruceBairnfather’s “Bystanders” frag-ments from France. £350 o.n.o.Roger Hopkins, Eastbourne. Tel:01323 501679.
MILITARY POSTCARDSSales Lists, Approvals
Send SAE with details of yourrequirements
COLLECTING BRITISH ARMYPOSTCARDS
An essential reference book £9.95plus £1.75 UK postage or send
SAE for full description.GEOFF WHITE
19 Rushmoor Lane, Backwell,Bristol BS48 3BN
20 GENUINE OLD DONALDMcGILL POSTCARDS £15 inc. post;also Bamforths, Pedro, Mike, Xerx-es, Trow, Flip, Wilkins and manyother saucy Sixties postcards 50peach. Eric Kent, 8 The Croft,Flitwick, Bedfordshire MK45 1DL.Tel. 01525-752222.
PIPWICK’S CHURCH POSTCARDSHOP now on ebay.co.uk with over40,000 church postcards also avail-able directly from Pip Barker. Sendwants list to: [email protected] or phone 07778-560241.
www.markfynn.comReal Photographic Topographical
NEW POSTCARD WEBSITE.www.millstonpostcards.co.ukNew stock added weekly.Paypal/cheques accepted.
VINTAGE POSTCARDS FORSALE
Visit my online shop atwww.alfapostcards.com
1000’s still to list
Colin Williams31 Rivington Drive
Burscough, Lancashire L40 7RN01704-895056
www.postcardworld.co.ukVisit Postcard World for many sur-prises. We have thousands of vin-tage subject and UK topographicalcards on offer here on our site. Allof our cards are illustrated for yourinterest and information and wetrust that this will add to yourenjoyment of Postcard World.Please browse around and hope-fully you will find something ofinterest. Our website is updatedweekly so bookmark us and visitregularly
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www.peterspostcards.co.uk forinteresting and unusual old papercollectables.
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DALKEITH POSTCARDS for Rail-way and Shipping see:-www.dalkeithpostcards.co.ukM.E.P. POSTCARDS. www.mep-postcards.co.uk. Modern special-ists.
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TTHE POSTCARD ALBUM is back!International postcard magazinefrom Germany in English. Issue 24out now. 40 packed pages in FULLcolour. Lots of old postcard print-er/publisher research. Highlightsthis issue: Albrecht & Meister,Berlin. Aristophot, Leipzig, thefirms behind the ‘Erika’ trademarkand more. Copy £3.50 ppd. Orderfrom GB representative: Ron Grif-fiths, 47 Long Arrotts, HemelHempstead, Herts HP1 3EX. Formore details on content and post-card research in general pleasevisit: www.tpa-project.info
NOTTINGHAM Postcard, CigaretteCard & Ephemera Fair at HarveyHadden Sports Centre, WigmanRoad, Bilborough, Nottingham.Tuesday 6th July 2010 from 3pmto 8pm. 40+ postcard dealersincluding moderns specialists.Admission £1 inc. souvenir cardsand programme. Contact Reflec-tions on 0115 937 4079 or see ourwebsitewww.postcardcollecting.co.uk formore details and locator map.
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Stamp, Postcard & Postal HistoryDealers urgently require English,Welsh, Scots postmarks on cards/envelopes for re-sale to collectors.
Must be clear impressions:Squared Circles, Duplexes,R.S.O.’s especially wanted.
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APPROVALS. ARTIST-SIGNED andall other art subjects and publish-ers - Tuck, Salmon, etc. Also Rail-way and Sports cards. Not seen oninternet or at fairs. Wants lists to:R. Cottrill, 33 Castleton Road,Hope, Hope Valley S33 6SB. Tel.01433-621122.
CARTES POSTALES ET COLLEC-TION, the French magazine forpostcard collectors, costs £5.30 incpostage. CARD TIMES is the regu-lar monthly magazine for cigarettecard collectors. Current issue andback numbers £3.05 each (inc.postage). Reflections, 15 DebdaleLane, Keyworth, NottinghamNG12 5HT.
PICTURE POSTCARD ANNUAL2010 is now available at £4.75 pluspostage, with an up to date direc-tory of dealers, fair organisers,auctions etc plus lots of featuresand articles, and a list of important2010 postcard fairs. On sale fromyour favourite dealer or direct fromthe publishers at 15 Debdale Lane,Keyworth, Nottingham NG12 5HT(postage £1 UK, £3 Europe, £5.50rest of world)
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fast establish-ment. Like somany Edwar-dian artistswhose workappeared onpostcards, Ernest’s artisticand inventive talents blos-somed early, and he beganpainting postcard-sizecomic sketches which hesent off to various publish-ers in the hope of a com-mission. He was signed upby Liverpool firm ThomasBrothers, who subsequentlyissued about 100 of hisdesigns in their ‘Everton’series. Initially the comicsketches had English cap-tions, but Ernest developedthe habit of adding Welshwords onto the cards togive them a more ‘authen-tic’ feel. The fact he had noknowledge of the Welshlanguage and relied on hiswife Melinda, whom hemarried in 1904, for transla-tions sometimes led topeculiar spellings on thecards! Of course, Ernest’sincome came mainly fromillustration work he did forbooks and from the sales ofwatercolours he painted ofLlangollen and area scenes.The postcards he left,though, are a distinctiveand important legacy.Christopher Burrows hasprovided a fitting tribute,and plenty of Ernest’s post-cards are pictured in thebook. Some - such as his‘Mixed bathing’ and ‘Full upat...’ have something of theflavour of Scottish artistCynicus’s cartoons, and
Burrows’ gently poking funat the natives of his adoptedcountry definitely mirrorsthe style of the Tayport-based artist/publisher.
* available at Llangollen Muse-um for £12.99 or from Christo-pher Burrows, Fernlea, MarketStreet, Llangollen, Den-bighshire LL20 8PY at £15.99inc. p/[email protected]
Frank Burridge, who died onMay 30th at the age of 80,was well-known in the post-card trade. In the 1980s hedesigned and published thefamous Dalkeith series.These were in sets of sixand covered many aspectsof early railways, in particu-lar railway companies suchas Somerset and Dorset.Many of the sets were hisown original paintings,while others were takenfrom old posters. He fol-lowed up the 103 sets in thisseries with Classic Posters,which ran to 52 sets, andthen began a further seriestitled Cards of Style. Thesecovered classic cars, vari-ous sports and others. LaterFrank issued some unlimit-ed series. He was meticu-lous in the production of hiscards and his researchestook him to many librariesand archives, including YorkRailway Museum, where hewas a regular visitor. Hisenthusiasm for the job inhand was reflected in theaccuracy of his work; everydetail of his subject mat-tered and he built up a finereputation.
Frank also becamefamous for the railwaymuseum he created in the1970s, the Big Four RailwayMuseum in Bournemouth.This was bulging with rail-way artefacts, not leastFrank’s collection of loco-motive nameplates. Thisattracted collectors from farand wide and was full oftreasures for the collector,even football enthusiastswho come to drool over thenameplates of LNER loco-motive ‘Manchester Unit-ed’.
This led to Frank pro-ducing a fine illustratedbook “Nameplates of theBig Four”. In his later yearshe was still producing rail-way literature. He will belong remembered - GGarnetLangton.
� Ian Aspinall of Stevenagehas died. He and his wifePatricia were frequent visi-tors to Bloomsbury, York
and Bipex,and had akeen inter-est inStevenagepostcardsand chil-d r e n ’ sartists.
�Obituaries�� Books �
Clubscene extraFlo McCarthy, chairman ofthe SOUTH DOWNS club,took the audience on a triparound his homeland of Ire-land. He began with a rangeof mainly pre-1910 urbanscenes, including colouredcards. For inter-war ruralviews, he turned to cardspublished by Judges ofHastings, their photographsgiving atmospheric views.Flo concluded with a rangeof cards from WilliamLawrence, who opened aphotographic studio inDublin in 1865 and over theyears covered the lengthand breadth of Ireland.Many of his 40,000 glassplates were subsequentlyturned into postcards.
� Torbay Postcard Clubhave just released the 100thedition of their newsletter.The full-page edition fea-tures an article on the RiverDart and pictorial shorts onthe artists Evelyn StuartHardy and Albert Carnell,Hands Across The Sea andRomance.
Below: two examples ofFrank Burridge’s distinctiveartwork on his ‘Dalkeith’series of postcards. Someof the railway ones are nowparticularly sought-after.
Llangollen artist - the life, work and post-cards of Ernest Burrows (ChristopherBurrows) is published by Bridge Books,Wrexham.The picture postcard boom of the early20th century gave an opportunity forartists and photographers all over theworld to express and showcase theirskills, sometimes on a national stage,more often quite locally or regionally.This 96-page beautifully-produced hard-back book with colourful dustjacket is theauthor’s homage to his grandfather,Ernest Burrows, whose comic observa-tions of Welsh life sold in huge quantitiesto amused tourists in the first twodecades of the 20th century.
The book sets the scenewith a critique of Llangollen(“not a pretty town” -though it attracted plenty oftourists a century ago, keento explore its surroundingcountryside). Ernest’s fatherWilliam, who hailed fromManchester, met his futurewife Mary Jane in Llan-gollen, one of the placeswhere his travels as a sales-man took him. The couplelived in Manchester - whereErnest was born - until Wil-iam’s ill-health persuadedthe family, by then five innumber, to settle in Llan-gollen with Mary’s father.William’s early death lefthis wife looking after thethree children and makingends meet by turning theirhouse into a bed-and-break-
Both side of Ernest Burrows’ classicpostcard ‘Travelling in Wales’, no. 230 inthe ‘Everton’ series
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A selection of recent titles:
British Postcards of TheFirst World War (PeterDoyle) £5.99 (+ £1.25 UKpost)Sussex Railway Stationson old postcards (JamesYoung) £3.95 (+ 80p post)Postcards from Utopia(Andrew Roberts) £8.99 (+£1.25 post)
Ask for a full list of avail-able postcard-relatedbooks.Reflections of a BygoneAge, 15 Debdale Lane,Keyworth, NottinghamNG12 5HT
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Picture Postcard� Puzzles �
Another selection of puzzles for you to identify, all onpicture postcards sent in by readers. If you know thelocation, tell us (write, fax, email or phone) and giveyourself the chance of a prize. First authentic identifica-tion of each puzzle wins you a choice of: pack of mod-ern social history cards, a free classified ad in PPM(max. 25 words), a Reflections pen, one of the Yester-day’s series of books based on old postcards, or a set ofReflections Postcard Centenary cards (state whichyou’d like when writing).
If you have a postcard (or cards) you’d like identi-fied, send in, enclosing two first-class or three second-class stamps per card submitted (for administrationcosts). List any identifiable clues on a separate piece ofpaper, and write your name in pencil on the back of thepostcard. Email scans/photocopies not accepted.Address for all correspondence: PPM, 15 Debdale Lane,Keyworth, Nottingham NG12 5HT.
June results
Dave Hill placed 374/1 as North Street in Marazion, Corn-wall, with “The Cutty Sark” public house on the right ofthe picture. Helena Butcher reckoned 374/2 was Ely andBob Appleton was first to point out Tonbridge as the loca-tion of 374/3. He felt the event might have something to dowith cricket and/or the local public school. “The Rose &Crown” is still there. Most of the buildings in the misty dis-tance were demolished in the 1960s, but all the otherbuildings seen on the postcard remain. Mark Baileytracked down 374/4 to the garrison town of Fermoy in Co.Cork, which today is a small industrial town of about 5,000people. The scene featured was in Queen’s Square (nowcalled Pearse Square) at the end of Fermoy Bridge. On374/6, Stuart Green revealed that the pub in the picturewas the “Fleece Inn” at 95 Green Road, at the corner ofBeckett Street (now Lincoln Green Road) in Leeds. PaulGain identified 374/7 as Alton, Hampshire, while JuneLamont spotted 374/9 as Barnardo’s Homes at Barking-side. Bob Pattison was quickest to recognise 374/11 as thehamlet of Percuil on the River Fal near St. Mawes. IanMonk located 374/14 as Duton Hill, near Great Dunmow inEssex, and Bob Appleton was on the ball again with374/15, the annual procession in Boulogne of Notre Damedes Flots passing the Church of St. Nicholas in La GrandeRue. Liz McKernan explained that the statue being carriedrepresents Our Lady in a boat. Christine Leveridge told us374/17 featured Dewsbury Town Hall on the occasion ofthe King and Queen’s visit to the town on 10th July 1912.
From April, Barrie Lane identified 372/2 as MarketPlace, Faversham (the inn is still there and a delight, headvertised!) and Colin White homed in on 372/9 as Drigh-lington, West Yorkshire, best-known, he asserts, for thenearby Civil War battle of Adwalton Moor.
375/2 “TheCrown Inn” lies at the end of the roadon this postcard view of a village scene. But where? (DougForton collection)
375/3 An Aerofilms-published postcard without a caption.Note the church to the right and the main road runningpast (Jim Howie collection)
375/4 A fine view of “The Bungalow Cafe” and three vin-tage motors. Where was it? (Richard Breach collection)
375/1 The postcard looks marvellous, but the only clue toits location is the shop name ‘A. Hibbard, wholesalerand...’ on the right. Where could this be? (Simon Smith col-lection)
375/5 Where was “The Old Priory Garage”? A car with reg-istration XY 5815 is being filled up with petrol, and a signadvertises Carless Coalene Mixture. This village scenelooks pretty recognisable. (Len Whittaker collection)
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375/6 A conveyance pulls up outside “The Cherry Tree”pub (D. Sandland collection)
375/7 This postcard was addressed to a lady in Darlingtonand the message included the information “we are 3 milesoff the station”. Assuming the view shows the sender’s vil-lage, can anyone place it? (Verna Palmer collection)
375/8 “This is where we live but the other side” ran themessage on this uncaptioned postcard. The parade ofshops includes Veasey (Reliable Boot Stores), Emerson(Refreshment Tea Rooms) and J. Woods’ drapers andmilliners (Sheila France collection) 375/12 (right) Yet another
pub! Postcard publishersleft lots of these cardsuncaptioned, presumablybecause they thought thepub name was sufficientrecognition. Not for ustoday, though! This is the“Albert Inn”, which soldHancock’s Flagon Ales &Stout (Chris Doble collec-tion)
375/9 (left) Top Paris post-card publishing firm Neurdein Freres pro-duced this card of the French president’s visit to England inJuly 1903. The crowd scene was photographed in the‘Guildhall Quarter’, outside J. Rutherford’s shop (“left overcloth bought to any amount”) at no. 167. Which town orcity, though? (Helen Binns collection)
Picture Postcard� Puzzles �
375/11 (left) Can any-one pinpoint thewhereabouts of “TheUnion Hotel”, whichsold Usher’s Ales?(Richard Roberts col-lection)
375/10 These two postcards above show long river or har-bour buildings on the opposite bank, super small sailboatsand indicate a nearby beach (John Woodford collection)
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