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Art deco from 

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July 2010 

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Hollywood postcard magic 

Comic strip in Wiltshire 

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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 

amusement 

park 

It’s a month of top postcard fairs - big weekend events from Exeter to 

Leeds via Reading, Birmingham, Twickenham & Central London

Jotter’s guide to Bournemouth hotels 

The artist Walter Hayward Young produced a long series 

of hotel views for London postcard publisher Arthur 

Burkart & Co., including many Bournemouth hotels. These 

were used by the hotels as advertising cards. Above: one 

of two views of the Branksome Tower, which boasted it 

was the only hotel in the town “with grounds extending to 

the seashore”. This card was posted to Shepherd’s Bush 

at Christmas 1912 

Above and below: inside and 

outside the Durley Dean Hydro. Another card showed 

a scene in the lounge. 

Right: The Royal Exeter. These delightful hotel cards are 

packed with detail, here showing strolling guests and a 

game of croquet on the lawns. Inset views are an extra feature 

of many of the cards in the series, which runs to 100 

highly collectable postcards. 

Below right: Hotel Burlington in Boscombe 

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Earliest Lighthouse postcard? This German card shows the 

lighthouse at Weser. It is postmarked 29 December 1890 

which is almost 12 years earlier than the previous earliest 

recorded date. These cards were used to report shipping 

passing the lighthouse on the way into the port of Bremerhaven. 

In this case, the imminent arrival of the Chelydra 

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PPM Features July 2010 

Postcard signposts - Liz McKernan checks out her 

directions 10 

Topographical focus - John Garrett celebrates 

Bournemouth’s bicentenary 14 

A postcard from Vladivostok - Philip Robinson 

investigates a romance 18 

Desert Island Postcards - Julia Sayers is cast adrift 

22 

Belle Vue: big and bold - Norman Ellis looks for 

amusement in Manchester 24 

The magic of Hollywood - Philip Yaxley on the 

bewitching boulevard 29 

The Swedish art deco master - Michael Hauskeller 

profiles Einar Nerman and his postcards 32 

Ships of The Orient Line - Alan Leonard with more 

high seas postcard adventures 36 

A classic coaching inn and its comic postcard wall 

paintings - Andrew Swift uncovers more than 

he bargained for in deepest Wiltshire 44 

Early posting 

dates 

Latest additions to our 

ongoing listing are as follows: 

Places 

* Aberdeen 24 July 1898 

Auchtermuchty 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 date 

than previously recorded. 

If you can contribute 

to this feature, please send 

photocopy of both sides of 

any submitted postcard. 

The important side is the 

picture - the location of the 

postmark is irrelevant. The 

latest updated listing 

appears in 2010 Picture 

Postcard Annual. 

Many of you are kind 

enough to contribute to 

this feature with updates 

or suggested new locations. 

Where these are villages 

or hamlets with 

small populations a century 

ago we tend not to 

include these unless the 

publication date of the 

postcard is particularly 

early i.e. 1902 or earlier. 

Virtually everywhere had 

postcards available by late 

1903 or 1904, and if we 

were to include every location, 

our list would 

become an unwieldy 

gazetteer. So if a date you 

sent hasn’t been included, 

that is likely to be the reason. 

Regular columns 

Early posting dates 3 

Newsdesk 4 

Fairs/Auction Diary 6 

Moderns news 9 

Clubscene 20 

Auction notes 28 

Postbag 42 

Card Chat 46 

Book Review 56 

Picture Postcard Puzzles 

57 

Top collections to 

feature at auction 

Two of the best collections 

of picture postcards 

in their respective fields 

that have ever been 

asembled will be sold in 

the next few months. 

Jackson’s, of Cedar Falls, 

Iowa, in the U.S.A. are 

offering at the end of 

August the 40,000+ Ken 

Oden collection of 

African-American and 

African postcards and 

ephemera, formed over 

two decades and representing 

over 5,500 publishers 

and 125 different 

categories. There are 

over 150 postcards of 

Josephine Baker, for 

instance. She was a black 

woman who was the 

biggest European 

celebrity of her time, but 

ridiculed in her native 

America. Real photographic 

cards - often of 

disturbing subjects - feature 

large in the collection, 

which we’ll preview 

fully next month. Jackson’s 

advert can be 

found on pages 48-49. 

The other major auction 

is of the Karl Jaeger collection 

- see next page. 

Picture Postcard Monthly July 2010 3

Newsdesk 

Comic postcards in Tate exposure 

Saucy seaside postcards form part of a celebration 

of British comic art in an exhibition at Tate Britain in 

London that runs until 5 September. Titled ‘Rude Britannia’, 

it features a wide array of paintings, sculptures, 

film and photography, portraying a rich history 

of cartooning and visual jokes. Various rooms 

have approriate titles: Absurd features Alice in Wonderland 

illustrations, Bawdy contains McGill masterpieces, 

and Politics has plenty of cartoons bringing 

public figures down to size. 

The Funeral Service 

Journal of June 2010 had 

an eight-page article about 

the centenary of Edward 

VII’s funeral in May 2010. 

The piece was illustrated by 

eight contemporary postcards. 

Card Times, the magazine 

for cigarette and trade 

card collectors, is going bimonthly 

from September, a 

move forced on editor and 

publisher David Stuckey by 

“rising production costs 

and postal charges and also 

by the current state of the 

hobby, which, although still 

buoyant and enthusiastic, is 

not as big as it once was. 

We feel it can no longer justify 

a monthly publication”. 

Belgium’s Mannekin Pis 

postcard club is to operate 

on a more modest level in 

future. Instead of regular 

monthly meetings, it will 

hold four small club fairs a 

year at Woluwe St-Lambert 

- next one is 26th September. 

If all goes well, there 

could be a bigger international 

fair again in Etterbeek 

next June. 

The South of England 

Spring postcard fair at Woking 

Leisure Centre saw an 

encouragingly large attendance, 

with lots of brisk 

business taking place on 

both days. 

Collectors enjoy the opulence of Cheltenham’s Pittville 

Pump Rooms at the Whit Monday postcard fair (photo: 

John Gallagher) 

Rikki Hyde Fairs are once again giving a set of Dalkeith 

postcards, courtesy of Philip Howard from Dalkeith Publishing, 

to the first 100 people through the door at one of 

their events. The fair this time is the 2010 Bournemouth 

Stamp & Postcard Festival at Pelhams Park Hall on Saturday 

10th July. Around 24 dealers will be present. The 

Dalkeith set on offer is S9, Southern Railway Shipping, 

featuring designs by Frank Burridge, who died on May 

30th, and whose obituary appears on page 56. 

‘Unique’ collection for sale in 

Salzburg 

A 30,000- strong collection formed over 25 years by 

Karl Jaeger from Bath is to be auctioned by Markus 

Weissenbock of Salzburg, Austria, in October. It represents 

about 80% of Karl’s entire collection - he felt 

he had to trim it down a bit! - and the 200 albums are 

strong in fine Judaica cards, Asia, South America, 

China and Hong Kong, with an extra helping of 

beautiful Venetian postcards. Subjects include 

advertising in the fields of food and drink, tobacco 

and animals - and there’s some choice ephemera, 

too. Markus will be at The Picture Postcard Show in 

London from 2nd-4th September promoting the catalogue 

and showing a selection of the postcards. 

This quite unique sale is likely to attract worldwide 

interest and should be one of the highlights of postcard 

collecting history. Karl came to postcards via 

the well-trodden route of stamps and postal history 

when he realised that many of his postal history suppliers 

were also postcard collectors. He soon 

realised that picture postcards were “much more 

fun!” 

The rock group Manic 

Street Preachers have 

announced details of a new 

UK tour to coincide with the 

release of their forthcoming 

new album (their 10th), 

which is excitingly titled 

Postcards from a Young 

Man. It’s due out in September. 

Royal Mail’s newspaper 

The Courier flagged up the 

fact that more than 100 

celebrities had written ‘a 

postcard for Cumbria’ to 

boost tourism in the region 

after last November’s 

floods. Judi Dench, Tess 

Daly and Anthony Worrall 

Thompson all penned messages 

of support, Tess writing 

“I’ve loved the Lake District 

all my life!!!”. Sadly, 

Cumbria was dealt another 

blow on June 3rd when a 

taxi driver went berserk 

from Whitehaven inland to 

Boot. 

Postcard clubs can as usual order free tickets to 

the Picture Postcard Show in London for the second 

and third days (September 3rd & 4th). Contact Dave 

Davis at P.O. Box 32, Southend-on-Sea, Essex SS1 

3QJ or by email at dave@postcard.co.uk 

Jean Thomas from Rob Roy Albums married Cliff Davis 

on a sunny day in May. Cliff, who lists motor cars 

among his interests, has become a familiar face at 

major postcard fairs over the past couple of years. 

Dealers at Woking Postcard Fair contributed to a card 

and present for the couple (photo: Dave Davis) 


Postcard Exhibition 

helps Charities 

An exhibition of a collection of postcards and 

printed ephemera of Hopton, Suffolk, was 

held in the Parish Church at Hopton in early 

May. The aim of the exhibition was to raise 

money to help fund the building of toilets in 

the church. All the cards were scanned to A4 

size and the scans laminated, making the display 

more visually appealing and eliminating 

security problems. During the three-day 

event the exhibition was constantly busy, 

and a great deal of interest was generated. In 

addition, over £700 was raised for the church 

project. A DVD of over 100 postcards from 

the collection was professionally compiled 

and a local musician friend composed and 

played the background music. Proceeds from 

the sale of the DVD are being given to the 

Cardiomyopathy Association in memory of 

Kate Trevarthen, the daughter of friends, 

who was diagnosed with this condition in 

2000 and died in 2002. A display about the 

work of the Cardiomyopathy Association 

was also mounted at the exhibition. Copies 

of the DVD are available for £14.99, post 

free, from Richard Spurgin, 1 Willow Walk, 

Harleston, Norfolk IP20 9DY. Please make 

cheques payable to Mr. D. Savage. 

June’s edition of the Railway Postcard Collectors 

Circle magazine has a feature on an 

11-mile stretch of railway in Banffshire 

known as ’The Whisky Line’. It opened in 

1862, closed in 1991, and now operates as a 

preserved line. Author Douglas Yelland tells 

its history and looks at its postcards - a 

checklist is supplied. Furness Railway exhibition 

postcards are also featured, along with 

the magazine’s very useful monthly list of 

newly-published railway postcards. 

Edition no. 76 of The Welsh Lady 

newsletter focuses on ladies by waterfalls all 

over the principality. 

Transporter bridges pop up in the latest 

issue of Gongoozler, magazine of the Canal 

Card Collectors Circle. Bill Mander revealed 

that only 19 were ever built, including five in 

Britain. One of these was the little-known 

bridge at Devil’s Dyke, near Brighton, which 

was used from 1894 to 1909. 

Verona fair a big hit 

Italy’s top collectors’ fair, Veronafil, had its 114th outing in May, 

with stamps, coins, postcards, posters and small collectables in 

two very large exhibition halls (below). Palle Petersen and 

Kirsten Andersen (Postcardenmark) set off from a wet and cold 

Scandinavia to arrive a day 

later to scorching temperatures 

in North Italy. The event 

effectively lasts four days, 

with the first a set-up/trade 

situation, though the scramble 

for entry on that day was 

quite lively. Demand initially 

and understandably was for 

Italian topographical postcards, 

but then a wide mix of 

subjects was requested. The 

first day of public opening 

(above) resembled “crowds 

entering a football stadium”, 

said Palle, and the mix of 

dealers was reminiscent of 

London’s Picture Postcard 

Show, with Joseph Vasta 

from New York, Ingrid Lorenz 

and Stephan Geis of Frankfurt, 

Coll’ex from France, 

Milos Oliva from Prague, 

Rosina Stevens from England 

and Krause Postkarten of 

Berlin. Auctioneer Markus 

Weissenbock of Salzburg was 

also there, promoting the 

30,000-strong Karl Jaeger collection 

that he is selling in 

October 

Ṫhere were, Palle 

assured us, other delights of 

the event, apart from a stay in 

the wonderful town of Verona. 

“Our neighbouring stallholders, 

an Italian couple, had 

friends from a valley on the 

Swiss border visit on the Saturday. 

They brought cooled 

champagne and a home-made 

delicatessen of all sorts from 

the valley: bread, Italian 

sausages, smoked ham and 

lard, cheese selection: goat, 

blue and brie. We were invited 

to join in... what a treat! But did 

we miss a few customers in the 

meantime?”. The final day, Saturday, 

concluded at 1pm, but 

the four-hour session was good 

for Postcardenmark - though 

some other dealers had left by 

then. 

* Veronafil takes place each 

November and May. 

Enjoying Italy: dealers Gisela and 

Jorg Spevacek from Bavaria, and 

Irene and Marc Lefebvre from Paris 

(all photos: Palle Petersen) 

Camden Local Studies & Archives Centre at Holborn 

Library, London WC1X has just received a collection of 

postcards formed by local woman Nancy sternberg in 

the early 20th century. 

Judith Holder of JH Cards from Bradford would like 

to thank everyone - customers and fellow-dealers - for all 

the kind messages and cards she has received since her 

recent operation. Judith promises to be back in circulation 

soon! 

A number of cards were apparently stolen from dealer 

Mike Felmore’s stock at June’s Haywards Heath fair. 

One was a Fry’s representative’s advert card with a picture 

of a cocoa tin on the address side. Others included 

a number of distinctive cards advertising Alpha Cakes 

animal feed, with pictures of livestock. 


What’s on - Postcard Events Diary 

JUNE 2010 

FAIRS 

29 Stockport, Masonic Hall (SC) 

30 Digbeth, Irish Centre (AMP) 

JULY 2010 

FAIRS 

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) 

Orpington, Crofton Halls* (SRP) 

9 Plymouth, Guildhall (PF) 

10 EXETER, Clyst Vale Community 

Centre 

(AS) 

Bournemouth, Pelhams Park (RH) 

Colwyn Bay, Eirias High School 

(NWSF) 

Wellington, Civic Centre (TPS) 

Chichester, Stockbridge Hall (CR) 


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) 


Hove, St. Leonards Church Hall (EL) 

25 LONDON BLOOMSBURY, Royal 

National Centre 

(IPM) 

Winchester, Badgers Farm 

Community Centre 

(CR) 

Lincoln, Showground (J&K) 

27 Stockport, Masonic Guildhall (SC) 

6 Picture Postcard Monthly July 2010 

Key to number of postcard dealers at 

fairs: 

BOLD CAPS - 25 or more dealers (40+ 

if in red) 

Bold type - 16-24 dealers 

Medium type - 7-15 dealers 

Medium italics - 3-6 dealers 

* evening fairs 

Saturdays indicated by 

Three non-specialist dealers are calculated 

to be equivalent to one specialist 

postcard dealer for the purposes of the 

Diary. Collectors unfamiliar with a particular 

event might still be wise to check 

with the organisers about the exact number 

of PC dealers present before making 

a long journey. 

Great care is taken to make sure that the 

information of this Diary is accurate, but 

the publishers can accept no responsibility 

for errors or omissions. 


29 Ripley, Rose Lane Scout Hut* (TN) 

31 St. Agnes, Parish Hall (DL) 

Portchester, Parish Hall (CH) 

Woodbridge, Community Centre (H) 

London, Electric Ballroom (PN) 

London , Charing Cross Market (RB) 

AUGUST 2010 

FAIRS 

1 BRISTOL , B.A.W.A.Leisure Centre 

(AS) 

Leigh on Sea, West Leigh Junior 

School 

(H) 

London, Park Inn 

(ES) 

4 Croydon, St.George’s Church Hall 

(PD) 


(DCF) 

5 Cardiff, Wesley Church Hall (DCF) 

7 HAYWARDS HEATH, Clair Hall (BF) 

Kidderminster, Railway Museum 

(KRM) 

Kendal, Parish Hall 

(V) 


(D) 

Wimborne, Allendale Centre (RPH) 


(SPPF) 



12 Orpington, Crofton Halls* (SRP) 

13 GODMANCHESTER, Wood Green 

Animal Centre 

(BR) 

14 GODMANCHESTER, Wood Green 

Animal Centre 

(BR) 



15 Lincoln, Showground (J&K) 

19 Cirencester, Bingham Hall (AMP) 

20 Newark, Showground IACF) 

21 Llandudno, Venue Cymru (NPF) 

York, New Earswick Folk Hall (SS) 

Guildford, Onslow Village Hall (CR) 



22 Holmes Chapel, Leisure Centre 

(V&A) 

Rochester, Masonic Hall (CR) 



28 STOCKPORT, Town Hall (KSG) 

CANTERBURY, Westgate Hall 

(C&EK) 

Southampton, St.James Road 

Methodist Hall 

(RH) 

Berwick on Tweed, Parish Centre 

(BRF) 


29 LONDON BLOOMSBURY, Royal 

National Hotel 

(IPM) 

Porlock, Village Hall (T&D) 

30 A3 KINGSTON BY-PASS, Tolworth 

Recreation Centre (GSF) 

East Grinstead, Parish Halls (CR) 

SEPTEMBER 2010 

FAIRS 

1 Croydon,St. George’s Church Hall 

(PD) 


(DCF) 

2 LONDON, Royal Horticultural Hall, 

2010 PICTURE POSTCARD SHOW 

(BIPEX) Postcard Traders 

Association) 

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) 


Preston, Barton Village Hall (PPS) 


(D) 

Hove, St. Leonards Church Hall (EL) 


(SSPF) 


5 LEEDS, Pudsey Civic Hall (KSG) 

Twyford, Loddon Hall (NB) 

Mountnessing, Village Hall (H 

Lincoln, 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) 



Eastbourne, St. Mary’s Church Hall 

(CR) 

Powick, Parish Hall 

(AMP) 

12 PENKRIDGE, Leisure Centre (AMP) 

Chichester, Westgate Centre (E) 

Worthing, Heene Community Centre 

(CR) 

Prestwick, R.A.F.A. Club (CF) 

16 Orpington, Crofton Halls* (SRP) 

18 CHESTER, Northgate Arena 

Leisure Centre 

(NPF) 

North Berwick, St. Andrew 

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) 



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) 

PRESTON, Barton Village Hall 

(RRPC) 

Broughty Ferry, St. Aidan’s Church 

Hall 

(CN) 

Portchester, Parish Hall (CH)

International Diary 

This is a selected list of fairs outside Britain featuring postcards 

in worthwhile numbers. The telephone number quoted 

in each instance is the internal one in that country. If you 

are travelling some distances to attend, it would be sensible 

to check details with the organiser. 

July 10 YORK (PA, USA), Aldersgate Church 717.767.4265 

July 25 LES SABLES D’OLONNE, Salle Audubon 

2.51.33.50.80 

July 25 MONT ALBERT (Victoria, Australia), Our Holy 

Redeemer Catholic School 9803.4396 

Aug 7 HAVRE DE GRACE (MD, U.S.A.), Community 

Centre 410.642.3581 

Aug 22 SYDNEY, Imar Community Hall at Croydon 

2.9268.2816 

Sittingbourne, Carmel Hall (CR 

Barry, Barry Boys School (CD) 


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) 



Fair organisers 

AMP AMP Fairs 01283-820151 

APS Alfreton PS 01773-541694 

AS Anne Scott 01395-270322 

AW Alan Watson 0131-456-6412 

BEPC 

September fairs 

Cheque guarantee cards 

may not be valid after June 

2011 when the current 

scheme is due to end. Customers 

may have to rethink 

their cash/cheque spend at 

fairs next summer, 

though the majority of 

transactions at postcard 

fairs tend to take 

place between people 

who know each other 

well. 

Bury St Edmunds PC 

01787-370406 

BF Beacon Fairs 01892-662132 

BPC Bristol PC 0117-9665071 

BPS Barry PS 01446-741026 

BR Barrie Rollinson 01278-445497 

BRF Bass Rock Fairs 01368-860365 

BRSC Bognor Regis SC 01243-837590 

C&EK Canterbury & EK 01843-862707 

CB Clive Baker 01843-862707 

CF Caledonia Fairs 01436-671429 

CH Colin Harris 02392-615380 

CIA Ch.Island Antique 07797777709 

CJ C.J. Fairs 01782-611621 

CN Chad Neighbor 01674-832823 

COR Cornucopia 01382-224946 

CPC Cotswold PC 01285-655532 

CR Chris Rapley 01795-478175 

D David Carr 01252-745444 

DC David Calvert 01507-480280 

DCF Dragon Coll. Fairs01446-741026 

DG Denny Gibson 01677-422863 

DL D. Luxford 01736-786068 

DPC Dorset PC 01305-871629 

E Emmott Prom 01243-788596 

EL Eric Langdon 01273-514733 

ES Ephemera Soc. 01923-829079 

FF Fairdeal Fairs 01732-463575 

Fair organisers: 

send us 

full details of 

your events 

for inclusion 

in this diary. 

Copy deadline 

is 10th 

July for the 

August 2010 

issue. 

PLEASE MENTION 

PICTURE POSTCARD 

MONTHLY WHEN 

REPLYING TO 

ADVERTISERS 

JUNE 2010 

FS Felicity Smith 01296-651283 

F&WM Ferndown & West Moors 

Philatelic & PC 01202- 871624 

F&WPC Frinton & Walton PC 

01255-674134 

GCA Grange Com.Ass 01730-816841 

GS Great Southern 07939-302425 

H Ray How 01702-544632 

HF Howard Fairs 0161-4284191 

HP Helen Prescott 01204-418791 

HoE Heart of Eng. PC 01926-854524 

HPS Huntingdon PS 01480-468037 

IACF Int Antique/Coll 01636-702326 

IPM IPM Promotions 020-82029080 

JT John Terry 01342-326317 

J&K J&K Fairs 01472-813281 

KN Kevin Noble 0117-9021134 

KRM Kidderminster 01562-825316 

KSG KSG Promotions 01723-363665 

MaPC Maidstone PC 01622-717037 

MEPC Mid-Essex PC 01245-362201 

MJP M.J.Promotions 01792-415293 

NB Neil Baldry 01628-622603 

NIPC N.Ireland PC 028-4062-2022 

NPC Norfolk PC 01263-825053 

NPF NorthernPC Fairs 01244535578 

NSCF Nat. Spec. Collectors Fairs 

01869-600236 

NWCF North West CF 07973-219394 

PD Peter Duncan 01444-482620 

PF Phoenix Fairs 01761-414304 

PN Philip Nevitsky 0161-228-2947 

PP Popplestone PC 02380-446143 

PPC Plymouth PC 01752-775289 

AUCTIONS 

25 Hendersons, Shrewsbury 01743-792727 

28 SPA, Cirencester (postal) 01285-659057 

29 Trafford Books, Manchester 0161-8778818 

JULY 2010 

10 Dalkeith, Bournemouth 01202-292905 

11 Lockdales, Ipswich 01473-218588 

14 T.Vennett-Smith, Nottingham 0115-9830541 

AUGUST 2010 

6 Special Auction Services, Midgham 0118-9712949 


10 T.Vennett-Smith, Nottingham (postal) 0115-9830541 


17 Trafford Books, Manchester 0161-8778818 

18 Birmingham Auctions, Worcester 01885-488871 

SEPTEMBER 2010 

1 Warwick & Warwick, Warwick 01926-499031 


5 Loddon Auctions, Twyford 01628-622603 

19 Lockdales, Ipswich 01473-218588 


22 T.Vennett-Smith, Nottingham 0115-9830541 

24 Hendersons, Shrewsbury 01743-792727 

EXHIBITIONS 

Until 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. 

PPS Preston PS 01772-713917 

P&R P&R Fairs 020-84623753 

R Reflections 0115-9374079 

RB Rodney Bolwell 01483-281771 

RC Ralph Carter 01227-362439 

RF RF Postcards 01268-794886 

RH Rikki Hyde 01202-303053 

RJ Richard Jones 01752-269003 

RPC Reading PC Club 01628-637868 

RPH Redpath Phil. 01258-880878 

RPS Rayleigh PS 01702-544632 

RRPC Red Rose PC 01995-670625 

RS Richard Stenlake 01290-551122 

RTW Royal Tun.Wells 01892-655914 

SC Simon Collyer 07966-565151 

ShPS Shropshire PS 01743-860910 

SPPF Specialist PC&PF 0208-8925712 

SPS Swindon PS 01793-728330 

SRP SRP Fairs 01322-662729 

SS Simon Smith 01723 363665 

SSPF Swindon St/PF 01793-528664 

SuPS Sussex PS 01323-438964 

SWPC South Wales PC 01633-412598 

T&D T&D Bradwell 01643-704649 

TM Trevor Mills 01702-478846 

TPC Torbay PC 01803-201908 

TPS Telford PS 01952-223926 

TN Tim Notley 01932-341527 

V Varykino 07836747166 

V&A V & A Fairs 01938-580438 

WPC Wealden PC 01293-786419 

WLPC West London PC 0208-892-5712 

WPS Worcester PS 01299-824829

TWICKENHAM 

POSTCARD & PAPER FAIR 

FRI JULY 16 & SAT JULY 17 

THE STOOP RUGBY STADIUM 

LANGHORN DRIVE, TWICKENHAM TW2 7SX 

(ON THE A316, OPPOSITE TWICKENHAM STADIUM) 

Sorry we had to cancel our January event here due to the weather, but this is 

the replacement show that we promised... 31,000 people have been to our fairs 

at Twickenham since we started them in 1992, and you can see why! 

With free car parking and clear RAC signposting outside, a great selection of 

postcards 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 an 

extra attraction on Saturday, too. Unmissable! 

UP TO 80 STALLS WITH A STAR-STUDDED CAST LIST INCLUDING 

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! 

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 

FRIDAY 10.00 - 5.00 £3.00, SATURDAY 10.00 - 4.00 £2 

And if you come on the first day, then we let you in free of charge on the second!

AND IT’S JUST SO EASY TO REACH 

THE STOOP RUGBY GROUND 

LANGHORN DRIVE, TWICKENHAM, TW2 7SX 

EASY TO REACH BY ROAD. From West. 8 miles from exit 12 on M25. At the 2nd roundabout you 

come to on M3/A316 (with Twickenham Stadium on your left) get in right hand lane and go right round 

till you are travelling in reverse direction on dual carriageway. Turn left after 450 yards (2nd turning) into 

Langhorn Drive. From East. Cross river from 

Richmond on A316 and at 3rd roundabout (with 

Twickenham Stadium to right), keep in left hand 

lane, and turn left after 450 yards into Langhorn 

Drive (2nd turning). 

EASY TO REACH BY RAIL 

(ENQ 0845 748 4950). 

8 fast trains an hour from Waterloo to Twickenham 

on Friday (average time 30 mins), 4 an hour on 

Saturday (average 39 mins). On leaving 

Twickenham Railway Station, turn right, cross road 

and take Whitton Road to left. At roundabout (600 

yards, with Twickenham Stadium on far side), turn 

left. Langhorn Drive is 450 yards on left (2nd 

turning). (15-minute walk - taxis also available at 

Station). 

EASY TO REACH BY AIR. Less than 4 miles from 

London (Heathrow) Airport. 

ENQUIRIES: SPECIALIST POSTCARD & PAPER FAIRS 020 8892 5712 

www.specialistpostcardfairs.co.uk 

OUR NEXT BIG 

FAIR... 

THE AUTUMN SOUTH OF ENGLAND POSTCARD FAIR 

WOKING LEISURE CENTRE FRI SEPT 24 & SAT SEPT 25 

Moderns News 

Will Britain scoop the postcard record? 

The Nottinghamshire village of Keyworth’s attempt to break 

the world record for most postcards posted on one day in one 

location takes place on July 14th, when the target is 5,217, one 

more than the benchmark set by Tamilnadu in October 2009. 

Will they do it? If you’d like to help, and have one or more 

postcards sent to you (with special souvenir handstamp, valid 

for that day only), send a cheque for 65p per card (UK 

postage, overseas extra) to Postcards for Keyworth Teen Park, 

15 Debdale Lane, Keyworth, Nottingham NG12 5HT. 33p 

from each postcard goes to fund equipment for the proposed 

adventure park for teenagers in the village. 

For subject collectors, these are 

the themes of the individual postcards, 

all focused on the village 

of Keyworth, its clubs and businesses. 

1. Post Office 

2. Reflections of a Bygone Age 

3. Rotary Club 

4. Friends of Kadzinuni (African 

village) charity 

5.Landscaping firm’s advert 

6. Property firm advert 

7. Athletics/ Primary School 

8. Choir 

9. Budgen’s advert 

10. Methodist Church 

11. Fish & Chip shop 

12. Electrical firm advert 

13. Indian restaurant 

14. Joinery business advert 

15. Cricket Club 

16. Flower shop 

17. Say NO to Tesco! 

18. Hardware/Pharmacy shops 

19. University of the Third Age 

20. Tennis Club 

21. Scouts 

22. British Geological Survey 

23. Butcher’s shop 

24. Guides 

25. Football club 

26. Sainsbury’s advert 

27. Outdoor heating business ad. 

World Cup heroes 

Boomerang Media 

contributed to this 

year’s Football World 

Cup postcard output 

with a clever set of 

seven featuring cartoons 

of top players. Titled 

‘World Cup Heroes by 

Simon Evans’, the set 

features England’s 

Wayne Rooney (styled 

‘Saviour’), Brazil’s Kaka 

(Magician), Ivory Coast’s 

Didier Drogba (Warrior), 

Cristiano Ronaldo of Portugal 

(Trickster), Spain’s 

Fernando Torres (Assassin), 

Frank Ribery of 

France (L’Enchanteur) and 

Lionel Messi of Argentina 

(Genius). The cards were 

given away free in cinema 

racks. 

May’s Bloomsbury 

fair provided a World Cup 

bonus with an attractive 

design incorporating a 

map and badges. 

There’s more Moderns 

news on page 51. 


Collecting Themes 

Signposts 

Liz McKernan points the way to the 

right direction 

As someone with a poor sense of direction, informative 

signposts are always welcome. However, they 

are not always of use. I well remember attending a 

collectors’ fair in Normandy which was way ‘out of 

town’ and deciding to walk back as it was all downhill 

and a pleasant spring day. Coming to a crossroads, 

the only sign I could see indicated ‘Centre 

Ville’ but did not specify which town! Having 

reached the fair by taxi I had no idea whether this 

was the town from which I had started out or perhaps 

another one nearby. 

I took a chance and an hour 

and a half later could see 

that I had indeed arrived in 

the right town, but it was 

an anxious walk as I met 

nobody to enquire. 

Signposts are to be 

found depicted on both old 

and modern cards and the 

subject overlaps another of 

my pet subjects – Frontiers. 

One of my grandfathers 

worked for Customs and 

Excise, so you see it is in 

the blood! 

(below, right) A frontier 

signpost here alongside the 

railway line between Norway 

and Sweden. c.1933 

(below) ‘The First and 

Last Sign Post’ in England 

is situated at Lands End in 

Cornwall. The signpost 

shows that it is 291 miles 

away from London and 

3147 miles away from New 

York. The postcard was 

probably bought at the 

‘First and Last House in 

England’ on the right in the 

distance. 

A signpost in 

north-west Pakistan also with the 

mileage given to various other Pakistani towns – and also 

London – Quetta is situated near the border with 

Afghanistan. Fort Sandeman was named after Robert 

Sandeman who was made agent to the Governor General 

in Baluchistan in 1877. 

(above) An attractive Swiss 

signpost in Brienz, a small 

village on the shores of 

Lake Brienz. The village is 

famous for its wood-carvings 

hence the many decorative 

signposts there. 


Another frontier 

signpost this time nearer home. Posted in 

Berwick-on-Tweed, a town I had mistakenly thought of as 

being in Scotland but 

which I have discovered is 

now in Northumberland, 

the card is one of a series 

all featuring the same two 

children acting out ‘An old 

border custom.’ Apparently 

Berwick was 

‘moved’ to England in 

1482 and now lies just 

two and a half miles 

south of the Scottish border. 

I wonder what the 

inhabitants thought at 

the time? 

(right) For some reason modern postcards of Eire often 

feature signposts, sometimes just on their own as in 

this example by Peter o’Toole but often shown with a 

typical ‘local’ with either bicycle or donkey emphasising 

the slow pace of life there.

Dublin is a historic city with 

some interesting street furniture. 

Here signposts 

have been fixed to an 

attractive street lamp in a 

photograph by T. Kelly in 

the series ‘Ireland people 

& places’ published by 

John Hinde Ltd of Dublin, 

who also published the 

other example from Eire. 

This card has intrigued 

me for some time. It is a 

privately-produced 

photo card with the date 

12.12.42 hand-written 

on it. I guess it could be 

in North Africa 

although the hats tell 

me that it was not 

taken during the campaign 

there. With their 

beers in their hands it 

makes me think of the 

film ‘Ice Cold in Alex’. 

Perhaps they too had 

fought together in the 

desert and had agreed to meet there after the 

war and drink a cold beer under this signpost. 

In a big London 

department store I found a series 

new to me. All the cards featured signposts showing 

unusual names and were published by Lesser Spotted 

Images in their series Lesser Spotted Britain. Each set of 

signposts is connected in some way and on the back are 

given details as to which county they are to be found in. 

The illustrated example features signposts in North Yorkshire, 

Northumberland, Cumbria and Worcestershire. The 

sign to Drinkers End seems to have suffered a little? 

In the Imperial War Museum 

visitors can see the 

often home-made signs 

which once adorned the 

trenches during World War 

One. This postcard produced 

by the Museum 

shows some of these. 

Signposts also came in 

the form of milestones, 

as in this example at 

Zanzibar. The area has 

had a chequered history, 

gaining independence 

from Britain in 

1963. On 27th August 

1896 ships of the 

Royal Navy destroyed 

the Palace and a 

cease-fire was 

declared 38 minutes 

later. The bombardment 

stands to this 

day as the shortest war in history! As 

can be seen on the signpost, London is a long way from 

Zanzibar: 8064 miles to be precise. 

A German signpost still in situ amidst the destruction all 

round. It would appear that there was only one way to go. 

Exeter Fair 

Saturday 10 July 

10 a.m. - 4 p.m. 

Postcards 

Cigarette Cards and Stamps 

Ephemera and Accessories 

Clyst Vale Community College, Broadclyst 

Organiser: Anne Scott 

01395 - 270322 

Next events here: Saturdays 

4 September, 9 October 

Picture Postcard Monthly binders are available 

in a choice of royal blue, maroon or light 

green. Priced at £5.95, each comfortably 

holds 20 copies of PPM. Postage is £2.50 (UK) 

if not picking up at a fair. PPM, 15 Debdale 

Lane, Keyworth, Nottingham NG12 5HT. 

PLEASE MENTION PICTURE POSTCARD MONTHLY 

WHEN REPLYING TO ADVERTISERS 


Romantic encounters 

Shown here are four of the postcards from three 

attractive sets of Signposts and Mileposts (series 

2403, 2451-2) published by the London firm Birn 

Brothers. Designed so they could be overprinted for 

local sales, the postcards also have a romantic angle. 

The example above was posted at Ipswich in August 

1909, while the Wrexham 

card below left was 

sent from that town in 

August 1908. Putney’s 

was mailed from its correct 

location in June 

1908, and the card of 

Southwell on the 

SPALDING 

POSTCARD FAIR 

New Venue! 

SATURDAY 

3rd July 

Open 10 am - 4 pm 

at 

The Castle Sports Complex, 

Albion Street, 

Spalding PE11 2AJ 

Old Postcards, Cigarette Cards, Paper Collectables 

All Day Refreshments, Bar, Free Parking, 

Wheelchair Friendly. 

Contact David Calvert on 

01507-480280 

Chester 

Postcard Fair 


front 

cover this month 

was written by a 

resident of the 

Nottinghamshire 

minster town: ”I 

have a few pressing 

engagements 

this week but not 

the kind of pressing 

as on the back 

hereof - not at 

all”. To complete 

the symmetry, 

the card left was 

posted at Hunstanton 

in 

November 1910. 

Dealers selling Postcards, Cigarette Cards and 

Ephemera 

Saturday 17th July 

Open 9.30 am - 3.30 pm 

The Chester Northgate Arena Leisure Centre 

Admission £1.25 & £1.00 concessions 

Flat unloading, refreshments and parking 

Postcard dealers already booked include: 

Winnie Kettell, Doug Forton, Keith Bird, Geoff Ellis, 

Neil Honeyman, Derek Bond, Mark Powell, David 

Seddon, Keith Hobbs, Graham Fleet, Keith Hough, 

Renzo Garavello, John Ryan, Ted Gerry, Phil Jones, 

Gwyn Williams, Alec Wallace, Alan Champion, Brian 

Roper & Jim Jackson 

Cigarette Card dealers already booked include: 

Jim Jackson, Brian Shepherd, 

Alec Wallace, John Varden and Jack Watson Albums and 

Frames 

Next Fair: Saturday 18th September 2010 

Bookings and enquiries: Northern Postcard Fairs 

Tel: 01244 535578; 07802 699024

DAYS OUT AT GODMANCHESTER 

Over 100 dealers featured at 

FESTIVAL OF CARDS ‘10 

FRIDAY AUGUST 13th 2010 (10.00 - 18.00) £3 

SATURDAY AUGUST 14th 2010 (9.30 - 16.30) £1.50 

WOOD GREEN ANIMAL SHELTERS 

GODMANCHESTER PE29 2NH 

nr. HUNTINGDON, CAMBRIDGESHIRE 

Postcards, Cigarette Cards, 

Ephemera 

not forgetting all accessories 

WEALDEN POSTCARD CLUB 

HORSHAM POSTCARD FAIR 

SATURDAY 24th JULY 2010 10 AM - 4 PM 

SPORTS HALL, THE FOREST SCHOOL, COMPTONS LANE, HORSHAM, 

WEST SUSSEX RH13 5NW 

* 50 TABLES - up to 40 POSTCARD DEALERS 

* PLENTY OF FREE PARKING 

* REFRESHMENTS AVAILABLE 

* 20 MINS WALK FROM HORSHAM STATION 

* SIGNPOSTED FROM THE A264 & A281 

* BUS ROUTE - METROBUS 65 (across road from 

station. Check times on 01293 449191) 

* WHEELCHAIR ACCESS 

DEALERS booked so far INCLUDE: 

JOHN KIDSON (Sussex), JEREMY GASKELL (Kent), BETTY 

and ROY FULLER (Kent), DEREK & JILL POPPLESTONE 

(Hampshire), PIP & JILL BARKER (Sussex), PETER DUNCAN 

(Sussex), MICK LARGE (Sussex), PETER LINCOLN 

(Somerset), ROSEMARY SHEPERD (Sussex), CAMPBELL 

McCUTHEON (Glos), LESLEY DAVIES (Sussex), JOHN 

FORRESTER (Surrey), TERRY DISLEY/MIKE MILLER 

(Surrey), MIKE TARRANT (IOW), GORDON COLLIER 

(Oxon), CLIFFORD JONES (Sussex), PETER LINDFIELD 

(Sussex), CLIVE TURNER (Sussex), CHRIS HOSKINS 

Enquiries & Dealer Bookings JOHN CHISHOLM 

01293-786419 (evenings) Mobile 07794-972186 

(Fair Day) Email: johnchis.holm97@uwclub.net 

Details 01278-445497 

07966-011027 (M) 

Accommodation list available 

(Surrey), BRIAN GREGORY (Sussex), DEREK GARROD 

(Kent), BRYAN BRINKLEY (Berks), TOM CARR (Essex), 

JACKIE WORLING (Sussex), 

JOHN PRIESTLEY (Notts) 

ADMISSION 50p 


Topographical focus 

Bournemouth 

John Garrett celebrates the bicentenary of 

the south coast resort 

Bournemouth is a young town, having only just celebrated 

its 200th anniversary, unlike its much older 

neighbours of Christchurch and Poole. The town lies 

in an area surrounding the mouth of the ‘Bourne’ 

stream on a wild, desolate heathland with a few fishermen’s 

hovels on common land used for grazing, 

and a few paths crossing the area. Its use in the 18th 

century was as a popular route for smugglers, the 

most famous of whom was Isaac Gulliver. 

The Christchurch enclosure 

act of 1802 passed by parliament 

enabled much of the 

common land to be enclosed 

and sold to seven freeholders, 

which cleared the way 

for plantations of pine trees 

to be planted replacing much 

of the gorse and heath and 

roads were developed from 

rough tracks. An inn, long 

since gone, was established 

to provide facilities between 

Christchurch and Poole. In 

1796, when the shoreline 

between Hengistbury Head 

and Sandbanks was recognised 

as a possible place for 

an invasion by Napoleon, a 

troop of Dorset Yeomanry 

under the command of Captain 

Lewis Dymock 

Grosvenor Tregonwell was 

responsible for the defence of 

The coat of arms was 

granted to the town on 

March 24th 1891. The 

crest on the top 

consists of four English 

roses surmounted 

by a palm tree. 

The town’s motto “Pulchritudo 

et salubritas” is 

below on an ornamental 

scroll and means ‘beautiful 

and healthy’. The 

postcard, postmarked 

Bournemouth, June 30, 

1905 is one of the ‘Ja-Ja’ 

heraldic series of cards 

designed and produced 

in England. 

the area. In 1810, whilst 

holidaying with his rich 

wife Henrietta at Mudeford, 

they drove over 

the beaches and sand 

dunes to the mouth of a 

little stream called ‘bourne’ 

where she fell in love with the 

beautiful pine trees, sand 

dunes and warm climate. 

Captain Tregonwell, whose 

main home was at Cranborne, 

immediately purchased 

8 1 /2 acres from Sir 

George Tapps and in 1812, 

built a house called ‘The Mansion’ 

which today 

is the site of “The 

Royal Exeter 

Hotel” in Exeter 

R o a d . 

Bournemouth 

owes its beginnings 

to Tregonwell 

who 

has been 

called ‘the 

founder of 

Bournemouth’. 

He certainly 

was the first to 

Bournemouth, The Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum 

In 1894 Sir Merton Russell-Cotes Mayor of Bournemouth 

built the East Cliff Hall on the East Cliff as a birthday present 

for Annie, his wife. It was to be their private house 

and on completion he announced he would give a large 

part of his art collection and his wife, Annie, would give the 

house and most of its contents to the town provided they 

could live there during their lifetimes. It was opened as the 

Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum by Princess Beatrice, 

Queen Victoria’s youngest daughter in 1919. This card 

is unused and has no indication of printer or publisher. 

see its potential as a health 

resort for the wealthy, sick, 

and elderly, but times have 

changed and now the town is 

regarded as one of the most 

popular holiday resorts on 

the south coast with a population 

of 165,000. Tregonwell 

died on January 18th 1832 

aged 73 and his wife Henrietta 

two months later aged 76. 

They are buried in the Tregonwell 

tomb in St. Peter’s 

churchyard, the town’s mother 

church. Bournemouth’s 

remote location from London 

meant its development into a 

seaside resort was slow but 

by the 1850s the town was 

beginning to take shape. The 

Bournemouth Improvement 

Act of 1856 and the Board of 

Commissioners began by 

providing the facilities and 

publicity needed to make it a 

popular resort, the census of 

1851 recording a jump from 

700 to nearly 17,000 in 1881, 

and its image as a centre for 

the wealthy and ailing grew. 

The Russell-Cotes family 

came from Glasgow because 

of Mr. Merton’s poor health, 

and after visiting the town 

and staying at the Royal 

Bath Hotel, he acquired it in 

1880. Later, as Sir Merton, 

Mayor of Bournemouth, in 

1894 he built the Russell- 

Cotes museum on the East 

Cliff as a birthday present for 

his wife, Annie. Originally 

called ‘East Cliff Hall’, it is 

now the Russell-Cotes Museum 

and Art Gallery and well 

worth a visit. They donated 

the house and contents to 

the town provided they could 

live there during their lifetimes. 

In 1893 Sir Merton 

became the only Mayor of 

Bournemouth who had not 

been a councillor. He was 

made a freeman in 1908 and 

knighted a year later. Travellers 

wanti- 

The earliest recorded postcard from 

Bournemouth is dated 15th April 1897 printed 

in Holstein, Germany. Originally classed 

as a court card, the message appeared on 

the front as only the address was allowed 

on the back of the card prior to 1902 when 

the divided back type of cards were sanctioned 

by the post office. This card, dated 

25 Feb 1899, shows an early coloured view 

of “The Chine” and was sent from the Durley 

Hall, Durley Chine with a very clear 

Bournemouth cancel of 25 Feb 1899 printed 

by the Pictorial Stationary Co at the 

fine art works, Holstein. 


The first coach and 

horses service operated in Bournemouth 

under the name “Tally Ho” provided by Henry Laidlaw. 

The famous Royal Blue company (now part of National 

Express) was started by Thomas Elliott in 1880. He began 

operating using a stagecoach and had up to 200 horses 

stabled in Norwich Avenue. This card probably dates from 

1910 and is taken from outside Hankinson & Sons. The 

card 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 hexagonal 

head with landing stages to embark and disembark passengers 

from paddle steamers and pleasure boats. The 

boat seen here is the “Balmoral” built in June 1900, 

scrapped in 1945 having served through the war. The toll 

for the pier in 1892 was 1d and in 1892/93 more than 

£6,000 was collected with one and a half million people 

paying admission. This card another Louis Levy no.24 was 

posted in Orpington, Kent on May 2nd 1910. 

ng to come to Bournemouth 

by train had to take a horsedrawn 

carriage from the stations 

at Holmsley, 

Christchurch or Poole until 

Bournemouth Central station 

opened for passengers in 

1888 ( after much opposition) 

where there was a service to 

the Royal Bath Hotel. The 

Victorian glass structure of 

the station is now a listed 

building. Except for a few 

amateur photographers, 

there were only four photographers 

of note - Robert Day 

(1822-73. His son W.J.Day 

carried on the business until 

1920 when the library purchased 

the collection), the 

Spinney brothers William 

(1860-1933) and Henry (1882- 

1962) who, although amateurs, 

were very professional 

in their approach to photography 

and produced a fine set 

of pictures of the Centenary, 

and Martin J. Ridley, who in 

partnership with Harry Miell 

had a studio in Old 

Christchurch Road. Miell was 

a portrait photographer and 

Ridley’s speciality was view 

cards which can be recognised 

by the letters ‘M.J.R.B.’ 

at the bottom right hand corner 

of the cards. He travelled 

the whole of the U.K. and 

when he died, his daughter 

had to dispose of several 

thousand glass plates and 

view cards most of which 

were destroyed. The town 

coat of arms was granted to 

Bournemouth on 24th March 

1891, the motto ‘pulchritudo 

et salubritas’ meaning ‘beautiful 

and healthy’. The earliest 

recorded postcard from 

Bournemouth is dated 15th 

April 1897 printed in Holstein, 

Germany (my own earliest is 

a court card from 25th Feb, 

1899). The two earliest piers 

were destroyed by storms 

and gales. A new iron pier 

was started in 1878 and 

opened by the Lord Mayor of 

London in 1880. It had a 

bandstand, facilities for 

steamship passengers to 

embark and disembark from 

excursion trips, a roller skating 

rink provided on special 

flooring, seating all down the 

length of the pier and facilities 

for refreshments; 

just over £6,000 was 

taken in tolls of 1d in 1892 

alone. Excursion trips were 

very popular and the first regular 

steamer service was provided 

by the “Heather Belle” 

in 1871. By 1880, two companies, 

Cosens of Weymouth 

and the Bournemouth South 

Coast Steam Packet Company 

were competing for business 

(a whole article could be written 

about the paddle steamers). 

The “Belle Vue Hotel”, 

built in 1838, provided some 

of the first accommodation 

for visitors. It had a library 

and was used as a venue for 

meetings. Ideally situated 

close to the sands and pier, it 

was demolished in1928 making 

way for the Pavilion 

which was opened by H.R.H. 

Duke of Gloucester on March 

19th,1929. The “Mont Dore 

Hotel”, opened in the summer 

of 1885, was very luxurious 

with 120 rooms 

and a separate suite for royalty. 

It was used as a military 

hospital during the First 

World War and in 1920 was 

bought by Bournemouth 

Council for £33,000 for conversion 

to a town hall which it 

still is today. It was not until 

1907 that the first section of 

the promenade, from the pier 

to Meyrick Road, was opened 

by Lady Meyrick and gradually 

new sections were opened. 

Today it runs from Southbourne 

to Alum Chine and on 

to Poole. 

Bathing machines were 

a common sight on the beach 

in the 19th century. It was the 

place for families and children, 

there were pierrots and 

Punch and Judy shows - the 

last being performed by Freddie 

Beale in about 1996 - and 

kiosks to buy ice creams and 

soft drinks. The original Winter 

Gardens, built in 1873, had 

terrible acoustics and was 

extensively altered and in 

1893 the Bournemouth 

Municipal Orchestra, the first 

in England, was formed 

under Dan Godfrey (later Sir), 

who was appointed head of 

the town’s entertainments. 

Sadly, it no longer exists. The 

Coronation of King Edward 

The central station opened in 

1888 when the link to 

Bournemouth East Station 

was finally made although 

passengers could reach 

Bournemouth West Station in 

1874. The Victorian glass 

structure is now a listed 

building and the single span 

over the 350 foot long platform 

is 95 feet wide and 45 

feet high with each of the 12 

girders weighing nearly 18 

tons. The card is Louis Levy 

no.72 of “The Central Station 

- interior” and is 

unused. 

continued... 


“The Pier” 

and “Belle Vue Hotel” were directly 

opposite the entrance to the pier and are on the left on this 

card with the fancy bazaar and Sydenhams reading rooms 

centre right and Bath Road running up the hill between 

them. Note the many carriages plying for hire. The card is 

Louis Levy no.4 postmarked Bournemouth Aug 24th 1908. 

BOURNEMOUTH 

continued from page 15 

VII in 1902 was celebrated 

with a great programme of 

events culminating with a 

spectacular firework display. 

The Bournemouth Black and 

White Minstrels, the Birchmore 

and Lindon Pierrots and 

the Gay Cadets all performed 

at various times right up until 

the Second World War. 

The Bournemouth 1910 

Centenary celebrations ran 

from July 6th to July 16th, 

and officially were two years 

early as Tregonwell’s first 

house was not built until 

1812. However, the Council 

agreed to underwrite the 10- 

day long series of events to 

the sum of £30,000, an enormous 

amount for those days. 

They aimed to rival the celebrations 

held on the Riviera 

where grand grotesque carnivals 

and Battles of Confetti 

were held every year. The figure 

of “Chantecler” or “Cock 

of the Day” which stood 40 

feet high was a special attraction 

for the parade of floats. It 

was brought over from the 

Continent, where it had won 

first prize at Nice. Special 

Centenary Prix d’Honfleur 

banners were awarded to the 

winners for parading in the 

Battle of Flowers. They had 

to be returned to the Town 

Hall after the event. The 

whole town was festooned 

with bunting, ribbons, flags 

and banners, including the 

shopping arcades, and no 

expense was spared. As a 

publicity event the fetes 

Bournemouth Centenary 

Air Show 

The Bournemouth 1810- 

1910 centenary card is by 

M.J.R.B. (Martin Ridley), a 

local photographer and 

publisher and depicts a 

scene of the fleet surrounded 

by 4 miniatures 

of Bournemouth. The 

card is unused. 


The Mont Dore Hotel, 

opened in the summer of 1885. It was very luxurious 

with 120 rooms and a separate suite for royalty. 

Used as a military hospital in the Second World War, it was 

bought by the Bournemouth council for £33,000 in 1920 for 

conversion into a town hall which it is still today. This card 

also shows the War Memorial, which was unveiled on 8th 

November 1922. The card is unused printed and published 

by J. Salmon, Sevenoaks. 

were an undoubted success 

and buried the staid and 

stuffy image from which the 

town had suffered. 

The International Aviation 

meeting began on July 

11th and was deliberately 

held to coincide with the Centenary 

fetes. Many of the 

leading flyers of the day came 

and took part in the competitions 

for prizes. Demonstration 

flights were held at the 

aerodrome at Southbourne 

between Tuckton and Double 

Dykes. Taking part were 

Colonel Samuel Franklin 

Cody born in the United 

States who had become a 

naturalised British subject, 

Captain Dickson, Mr. Grahame 

White, Mr. J. Armstrong 

Drexel, Mr. Salmet, 

Mr. Christaens, Mr. M. Audemars, 

Mr. Radley and the 

Hon C. S. Rolls. Tragedy 

marked the second day of the 

After a heavy cliff fall in 

1896, the Council 

approached Sir George 

Meyrick requesting permission 

to construct an undercliff 

promenade. After much 

deliberation, work began 

and the first section of the 

new Undercliff Drive was 

opened on Nov 6th 1907 by 

Lady Meyrick. In this picture 

the Undercliff Drive can be 

seen looking much the 

same as today and now 

stretches all the way from 

Southbourne in the east to 

Alum Chine and thence to 

Poole in the west. This card 

is hand-written (not posted, 

but dated 8th Nov 1909) and is Raphael Tuck and Sons’ 

‘Rapholette’ Bournemouth postcard.

The original 

Winter Gardens pictured from the outside 

in about 1900. The acoustics were notoriously poor 

especially when it rained heavily. This card shows the massive 

amount of glass involved in the structure, hence the 

nicknames “greenhouse, hothouse and conservatory”. I 

attended many concerts there in my youth whilst still at 

school. The building has recently been demolished. Published 

by White & Jones, The Triangle, Bournemouth a 

local publisher and posted from Bournemouth on September 

11th 1904. 

(right) The air show 

commenced in the 11th 

July and brought 

together all the leading 

pilots of the day. 

Tragedy marred the 

second day of the flying 

displays when to the 

horror of spectators 

the plane piloted by 

the Hon. C.S. Rolls 

began breaking up 

when attempting to 

land on a marked 

spot. The card says 

“we saw him fly the 

day before he was 

killed. It was very 

sad”. This was the 

first fatal flying accident 

in Britain and it 

was the first time an 

international aviation 

meeting had 

been held in this 

country. Card published 

by Harvey 

Barton & Son Ltd, 

Bristol. Postmarked Bournemouth July 

22nd 1910. 

The Centenary fetes 

of 1910 lasted for two weeks. The whole 

town, including The Square, arcades and shops,was festooned 

with flags, bunting and banners, with everywhere 

ablaze with colour. The Gervis Arcade, known today as the 

Bournemouth Arcade, was begun in 1866 by Henry Joy, a 

builder. Originally open to the sky, it was finally roofed and 

glazed in 1873. Seats were provided for people to sit and 

listen to the bands who performed there daily in a gallery 

at the east end. The card shows the arcade with all its decorations 

in place. Printed and published by Harvey Barton 

& Son, Bristol Ltd, the card was posted from Bournemouth 

on July 19th 1910. 

flying displays, when to the 

spectators’ horror the plane 

piloted by Rolls began breaking 

up when attempting to 

land on a marked spot and he 

The centenary fetes of 1910 

went on for two weeks to celebrate 

the founding of 

Bournemouth by Lewis Tregonwell 

and attracted many 

carnival floats including 

some from Italy. The whole 

town was decked out with 

ribbons, bunting, flags and 

banners and the event was 

underwritten by the council 

to the tune of £30,000. The 

float entitled “cock of the 

day” or “chantecler” was 

brought from “Nice” in 

France as a special attraction 

for the parade of floats. 

There is no indication of publisher 

and the card is unused. 

was killed. He became the 

first fatal flying accident victim 

in the U.K. A memorial 

plaque exists near the spot 

where he crashed in a 

The Bournemouth 

Mayor in 1912 was Mr. McColmont Hill who 

was returned unopposed in every election from 1911 to 

1914. The card says “saw some flights by the mayor in this 

plane last night, this morning went bathing at 7am, a bit 

wet”. Real photo published by the Bournemouth View Co 

Ltd, St. Pauls Lane, Bournemouth. Postmarked 

Bournemouth July 20th 1912. 

corner of St. Peter’s School 

grounds. 

Many famous people 

have associations with the 

town: Sir Donald Bailey, Tony 

Blackburn, Max Bygraves, Sir 

Alan Cobham, Charles Darwin, 

Benjamin Disraeli, John 

Galsworthy, Stewart Granger, 

Isaac Gulliver, Tony 

Hancock, Amanda Holden, 

Lillie Langtry, Guglielmo Marconi, 

Mantovani, Freddie 

Mills, C.S.Rolls, Mary and 

Percy Byshe Shelley, Ann 

Sidney, Robert Louis Stevenson, 

Dame Sybil Thorndyke, 

Beatrice (Potter) Webb, Virginia 

Wade and Sir Roy 

Welensky, all have lived in 

the town at some stage and 

there are many others 

with connections to the 

town. Suffice to say this is 

only a brief synopsis of 

Bournemouth, covering a 

period of the first one hundred 

years and including a 

few choice postcards from 

my collection. I hope you 

enjoy it. 

PPM keeps you in 

touch with the 

postcard world! 


Writing home from 

Vladivostok, 1907 

Philip Robinson 

Vladivostok, in the Russian Far East, is an important 

seaport and naval base, and at the turn of the last 

century it was the eastern terminus of the newly-built 

Trans-Siberian Railway. It is not an old city, having 

been founded as recently as the 1860s, a time when 

Russia began to exert more influence in the Far East, 

the superb natural harbour making it an obvious 

choice as a base for shipping and commerce. In the 

early 1900s British ships occasionally called at Vladivostok, 

including Royal Naval vessels. The postcards 

shown here were sent home to England in August 

1907 by a young sailor whose ship was visiting Vladivostok, 

and who was writing to his girlfriend. There 

may have been a diplomatic connection with his 

ship’s presence in Vladivostok, as on 31 August 1907 

the ‘Anglo-Russian Entente’ was concluded, which 

settled the two powers’ outstanding differences in 

Persia, Afghanistan and Tibet. 

We arrived here last Tuesday 

19th August and we 

have had a very decent time. 

The Russians have been asking 

us out to dinners and 

concerts since we have been 

here, quite a strange thing 

for them but they are alright 

… 

Card no. 2 not available – the 

message evidently referred to 

the ship’s next port of call. 

Card no. 3 (right) – artistdrawn 

design incorporating a 

view of the railway station 

… when I will write as soon as 

I arrive and let you know 

about the turn out we have 

had here. I hope you get 

these safe as it is a very bad 

route and not always safe … 

Card no. 4 (below left) – a 

view of wooden boats in a 

small bay 

… so I hope and trust you get 

them safe. I hope you are 

enjoying the best of 

of the Empire would… 

Card no. 6 (opposite page, 

top) – view of the Oriental 

Institute 

… suit me better, what do you 

say about it Eh. Well never 

mind cheer up, 

I found the postcards in a 

dealer’s stock at the York fair 

a few years ago. There are six 

cards addressed to Deptford, 

London, all posted on the 

same day. Looking more 

closely at the postcards, I 

noticed that they were all 

numbered, and it was clear 

that the inscriptions actually 

comprised a single message, 

written on successive cards. 

Unfortunately, card no. 2 was 

not in the dealer’s stock, but I 

purchased the rest of them. 

The cards were all published 

in Vladivostok by 

Kunst & Albers. This was the 

largest of several German 

firms which 

operated in Russia’s Far East 

at that time, and publishing 

postcards was purely a sideline 

- the firm had a large 

department store on Vladivostok’s 

main street, and they 

also had interests in mining, 

fisheries and other local 

industries. The sender of the 

cards had chosen quite a 

good selection of views to 

show ‘Miss E. O’Neil’ a little 

of the city, and here is a transcript 

of what is written on 

the cards, together with a 

brief description of each card. 

Card no. 1 (above) – view of 

Vladivostok railway station 

Dear E. Just a line to let you 

know that I am still alive and 

kicking very lively at present. 

health and strength, also 

that Ma and Vi are the same 

and Charlie and Nell and children 

are the same. As you 

can guess I am very ill in bed 

as I always am. We have a 

concert and nigger party 

coming off on board… 

Card no. 5 (below) – view of 

the Russo-Chinese Bank 

… and it will be almost as 

good as the Empire except 

that we don’t sit on plush 

seats and no programme girl 

to talk to - Eh what! But only 

wooden stools and print our 

own programme on a typewriter 

machine, and entrance 

fee nothing, but still 2 seats 

Nos. 7 and 8 in the back row 

I hope to 

have the pleasure again of sitting 

in No 8 with you in No 7. 

Well Edith I humbly apologise 

if you have had to pay extra 

postage on any of these postcards 

that I have sent you… 

Card no. 7 (opposite) – artistdrawn 

design incorporating 

small views of a market by 

the quayside and the Triumphal 

Arch. 

… but I had no business to 

have written on the front part 

at all unless I put the postage 

for a letter on and I do not 

think I have done that always 

so I hope it has not inconve- 


nienced you at all. Well Edith 

hoping to hear from you 

soon, I will close with best to 

all and extra for yourself, so 

au revoir W.D.C.T. 

The sender was clearly 

writing to his girlfriend Edith, 

the ‘Miss O’Neil’ to whom the 

cards were sent, and he only 

identified himself by his initials. 

However, a little 

research in public records has 

enabled me to find out a little 

bit about him and his paramour. 

William Dan Coningsly 

Taylerson was born in Hackney, 

London, in 1884, the son 

of a council clerk, while Edith 

May O’Neil was born in Walworth, 

London, in 1888. At 

the time of the 1901 census, 

William Taylerson was a sixteen 

year-old member of the 

crew of H.M.S Impregnable. 

This ship, formerly H.M.S. 

Howe, had by the 1890s 

become a training ship based 

at Devonport. The 1911 census 

return shows William as a 

‘Petty Officer Telegraphist, 

Royal Navy’ who was a ‘visitor’ 

at the Deptford home of 

50 year-old Mrs Ellen Mary 

Willmore. At the same 

address were Mrs Willmore’s 

daughters Edith O’Neil, 22, 

and Violet O’Neil, 19, Edith 

being described as a ‘blouse 

maker’. More research confirmed 

that Mrs Willmore’s 

first husband, William O’Neil, 

had died in 1890. 

So in 1907 William 

Taylerson had been writing to 

the teenage Edith, at whose 

home he was living four 

years later. Although William 

and Edith were eventually 

married, they evidently 

enjoyed quite a long 

courtship (some of this time 

evidently being spent in the 

back row of the “Empire”) as 

the wedding did not take 

place until 1915. They are 

hard to trace in later records, 

and do not seem to have had 

any children. They may perhaps 

have emigrated; William 

does not appear to be listed 

as a First World War casualty. 

I wonder if I shall ever 

find the missing card no. 2?! 

The Picture 

Postcard 

Show (Bipex) 

2010 

is at the Royal 

Horticultural Hall, 

Westminster, 

London SW1 

Thurs - Sat 

2 - 4 September 

with postcard 

exhibition on 

London Life 

Don’t miss it! 

Stockport (mid-week) Fair - 

Last Tuesday of Month 

Postcards, Stamps, 

Cigarette Cards - Ephemera 

and Postal History. 

Masonic Guildhall - Wellington Road South 

SK1 3XE 

Next dates - 

Tuesdays June 29th, July 27th, September 

28th, October 26th, November 30th. 

Details - Simon Collyer 07966 565151 

HAYWARDS HEATH 

INTERNATIONAL 

Postcard, Cigarette Card and Collectors Fair 

The top event of its kind in the Southern Counties! 

Saturday 3 July 

10.30 a.m. - 4 p.m. 

55 Tables specialising in: 

POSTCARDS *CIGARETTE CARDS *EPHEMERA *STAMPS 

*POSTAL HISTORY *ALBUMS *ACCESSORIES ETC. 

Clair Hall, Perrymount Road, 

HAYWARDS HEATH 

West Sussex 

Admission £1 Refreshments Free Parking 

Dealers booked include: 

* Topo Plus * Brian Girling * Mike Felmore * Peter Holroyd 

* Tim Notley * Tony Michaels * Philip Chipperfield * Mick 

Devonald * Beacon Postcards * Lesley Davies * Peter Robinson 

* Peter Lindfield * John Priestley * Andrew George 

* Chris Hoskins * Rob Roy Albums * John Rendell 

* Andrew Bowker 

* John Kidson * Jane Dembrey * Janice Withers 

* Graham Green * Peter Duncan * Jackie Worling 

and more to follow! 

For further information and 

bookings: 

Rosemary Shepherd/Beacon Fairs 01892-662132 

Future Dates: 7 August, 4 September 

STAMP & POSTCARD FAIRS 

Modern postcards as well as old ones are well 

featured at each event 

This month’s fairs: 

Sunday 11th July 

WYMONDHAM, Ketts Park Community Centre 

Saturday 31st July 

WOODBRIDGE, Community Centre 

Next month’s fair: 

Sunday 1st August 

LEIGH-ON-SEA, West Leigh Junior School 

All fairs 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. 

Details: Ray How 01702-544632 


Clubscene 

A real Cornish evening 

The desperate plight of Cornish miners forced to 

travel across the world to find work was recalled at 

Plymouth’s May meeting. This was a talk with a difference, 

however, as Alan and Lynda Jewell movingly 

told the story of Cornish emigration in words, 

music and song, accompanied by Alan on various 

instruments (concertina, mandola and bazouki) with 

Lynda on the flute. Alan’s interest in the hardships 

endured by his forbears began when he found out 

that his grandparents made the long journey to Salt 

Lake City in the early 1900s. The Redruth duo use 

their musical talents to promote a Cornish Global 

Migration Project launched on the internet by Alan 

to establish a database of all the county’s emigrants. 

With the flag of St. Piran as a backcloth, Cornish 

members played a key role in the success of 

the evening. Tony Lucas from Saltash set up a 

superb array of south-east Cornwall topos; Steve 

Prescott from St. Ives was the visiting dealer; Peter 

Keast from Newquay gave a hearty vote of thanks; 

and Rowe’s Bakery of Falmouth supplied hot pasties 

and saffron cake for a proper Cornish supper. 

The SOUTH WALES club 

held a quiz evening in May 

when Lynne Warry asked 

the audience contestants to 

identify a range of topographical 

cards from the 

Cardiff and Newport areas. 

The answers came via a 

powerpoint projection of 

the featured postcards. 

READING’s first meeting 

of May saw Cliff Maddock 

give a powerpoint display 

of cigarette and trade 

cards which followed the 

River Thames from Pangbourne 

to Kingston. His aim 

was to show how the hobby 

can be widened from its 

usual completion of sets or 

collection of types to provide 

a panorama similar to 

that afforded by picture 

postcards. Later in the 

month, Chris Hollingham 

explained the role of Lord 

Baden-Powell and his sister 

Agnes in the establishment 

of the Scout and Guide 

movements in 1908 and 

1910. An enthusiastic question 

time followed, with the 

opportunity to examine part 

of Chris’s personal collection 

of postcards and other 

memorabilia. He invoked 

many long-forgotten memories 

and tales of earlier 

scouting and guiding days 

among many of his audience 

Ḋenby Dale Collectors 

Society were at HUDDERS- 

FIELD Postcard Club in May, 

returning a visit two months 

previously. The Denby contingent 

produced a number 

of excellent displays and 

presentations, including calendars, 

cigarette cards, 

postcards of advertising 

posters, letterheads and 

glass walking sticks. 

Postcards in the 

wash 

It was Washday Blues at 

EXETER in May, with Di 

Lawer presenting postcards 

that depicted the history of 

washing and laundry. 

Splendid brightly-illustrated 

postcards showed children 

in wooden bath tubs, pretty 

women in hip and shower 

baths, boys in tin baths and 

elegant pedestal baths. Di’s 

early cards had everyone 

smiling before she moved 

on to water heaters, boiler 

gas geysers, washboards, 

mangles, dolly pegs and all 

the other washday paraphernalia! 

She also showed 

off reproduction soap 

advert postcards, and her 

memorable talk was 

enjoyed by all. 

PPM editor Brian Lund 

visited the NORTHAMP- 

TONSHIRE club again, this 

time putting on a display 

that underlined the importance 

of topographical postcards 

from national, regional 

and local publishers. The 

display, talk and subsequent 

question and answer 

session gave everyone in 

the audience a chance to 

participate. 

The Football Postcard 

Collectors Club celebrated 

20 years’ existence in May, 

and that month’s magazine 

maintains the high standard 

set from the outset by originator 

Paul Macnamara. It 

contains articles on the G.A. 

Wiles postcards of crowd 

scenes at Brighton & Hove 

Albion, the Newcastle United 

postcards of Gladstone 

Adams, Crystal Palace’s 

early years and lots more. 


July 2010 highlights 

Aylsham - 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) 

FERNDOWN had a double bill at their latest event, with a 

display of Spitsbergen covers and postcards, the latter 

covering the spectacular scenery or the ships that visited 

the region. Even a postcard produced by a German tourist 

leader who ran his own company was on display, along 

with a rare postcard from Bear Island. The second half of 

the evening was a display of the mobile post offices of 

South Africa, introduced in 1937 as the townships expanded 

rapidly; the first one was in Johannesburg. In all 25 

mobile offices were established but were withdrawn gradually 

in the 1980s. 

A party from the MID- 

Nottinghamshire’s postal ESSEX club visited Essex 

history was on the agenda 

Police HQ in Chelmsford in 

at NOTTINGHAM Postcard 

May, when the guided tour 

Club in May. With the aid of 

included a look at the 

slides, Dennis Humphreys 

superb Operation Control 

traced it back to 1561 when 

Centre, where an insight 

the first postmasters were 

into how the vast and highly 

sophisticated Centre per- 

appointed in the county. 

Postal route maps were produced 

and the postal facility 

forms its many duties. From 

there, the group moved on 

became available to the 

to the Essex Police Museum, 

which features 160 

public. Dennis showed a 

selection of old letters, 

years of the county’s constabulary 

history. Chairman 

some sealed with wax, and 

postcards of the county. In 

John Adnam was ceremonially 

handcuffed for a short 

June, the ladies entertained 

with postcards of Royal jewellery, 

country life and farm 

time! 

scenes, and ‘A holiday in 

Aylsham Postcard Club 

Spain’ - a clever compilation 

of preparation, flight 

have a new venue from this 

month, at the Cawston 

and adventure. 

Road Chapel in Aylsham.

Braving the weather 

Sixteen brave souls from 

LOTHIAN Postcard Club 

gathered on Edinburgh’s 

Castle Esplanade on May 

11th despite a biting north 

wind, to enjoy a tour of the 

city with guide George 

Laing. Progress was made 

down the Royal Mile as 

George pointed out the history 

of the older buildings. 

The tour ended outside the 

city’s oldest house, dating 

back to 1460. The party then 

set off to a local restaurant, 

where a convivial evening 

was spent. Three days later, 

the club’s regular monthly 

session was entertained by 

Richard Cuthbertson 

(extreme right in photo 

above), whose interest in 

postcards was first awakened 

50 years ago when his 

grandmother would occasionally 

let him look into her 

postcard album. If he was 

good, he was allowed to 

choose one! Four decades 

later, that interest was 

rekindled when Richard visited 

an antiques fair in Stirling 

and bought one dealer’s 

entire Clackmannanshire 

stock! From there it 

was all go, and despite living 

in Hong Kong, he was 

sent batches of approvals 

that allowed him to build up 

an impressive Tillicoutry 

collection, part of which he 

displayed. As a bonus, 

Richard also showed a 

selection of about 180 postcards 

of the island of 

Macao, whose stamps he 

once collected. 

CROYDON members 

enjoyed Ken Harman’s 

unusual display last month 

giving potted histories of 

selected Surrey mansions. 

He also included stories of 

some of the more prominent 

owners, like the Earl of 

Eldon (Shirley House), Sir 

Jeremiah Colman of English 

mustard fame (Gatton Park) 

and Thomas Hope of Depdene 

(near Dorking), who 

created a centre of classical 

culture and taste. 

Diana’s adventures 

WEST LONDON club members 

were hugely entertained 

by 91-year-old Diana 

Keevil, who packed a lifetime’s 

tale into the evening, 

recently. As a child she lived 

with her mainly absent 

father, illiterate mother, 

grandmother and sister in 

two rooms, one for living in 

and one for sleeping in. At 

the age of 12 she left home 

to join a Hungarian dance 

and acrobatic troupe and 

was soon on the road touring 

Europe. Diana performed 

in street circus and 

met celebrated artistes such 

as Edith Piaf and Josephine 

Baker. Bandleader Billy Cotton 

helped her escape from 

Germany on the eve of 

World War Two. Diana’s 

talk was filled with charm, 

humour and anecdotes in a 

truly fascinating performance 

that included two 

films of her act. 

Sylvia and Michael 

Porter went through the 

alphabet - almost - as they 

presented a guessing game 

of places in Suffolk featured 

on postcards from their collection 

at BURY ST. 

EDMUNDS’ latest session. 

Projected on an epidiascope, 

the event lacked only 

the letter ‘J’ - which does 

not fetaure on a Suffolk 

place name. The Porters 

also brought along their 

charity cards for sale, and 

many of the club members 

were delighted to receive a 

personal parcel of postcards 

on their chosen subjects. 

Margaret and Harry 

Clark gave WEALDEN’s 

audience in May a fascinating 

insight into the history 

and growth of Rustington, 

and the thoughts of residents 

and visitors on postcards 

from the village. You 

could probably write a 

meteorological history of 

Rustington, which inspired 

an amazing number of postcards, 

from messages on 

the backs! 

Alan Barwick’s millionaire’s 

quiz formed the second 

part of the evening. 

Three contestants, Brian 

and Roy Tester along with 

Colin McDougall, were subjected 

to questions of varying 

difficulty on the subject 

of picture postcards. They 

could call on a friend from 

the audience, go 50-50 or 

stick. Each did well, but 

there had to be a tie-break 

question in the end to 

decide the winner, who 

turned out to be Brian 

Tester. 

Postcard dealer Richard 

Spurgin was guest speaker 

at the NORFOLK club in 

May, asking “why not look 

at the back?”and dividing 

his talk into two distinct 

parts. In the first he stressed 

the significance of stamps 

and postmarks. Using 

superb enlarged visual aids, 

Richard showed how seemingly 

mundane postcards 

sometimes carried a collecting 

bonus on the reverse 

and suggested cheap boxes 

were often a good source of 

interesting postmarks. Messages, 

too, could provide 

extra fascination. In the second 

part of his talk, Richard 

looked at the many famous 

cachet postmarks, including 

Lands End, Snowdon, Snaefell, 

John O’Groats and 

even Blackpool Tower. 

COTSWOLD club members 

went on a visit to the 

Living Memory Historical 

Association at Cirencester. 

This is a small, privately-run 

museum where interest 

centres on the military 

aspects of World War II and 

the following two decades. 

It houses a wonderful collection 

of genuine articles 

such as uniforms of soldiers 

and nurses, backed up by 

everyday objects from the 

wartime years. Two of the 

museum’s founder-members 

provided a guided tour 

of the fascinating exhibits. 

James Marshall gave a 

WEST LONDON audience a 

railway treat in April as he 

linked an outline of the technical 

evolution of railway 

engines with the personality 

of the Rev. Wilbert Awdrey, 

creator of Thomas the Tank 

Engine. Awdry was very 

concerned with authenticity, 

but the illustrator of his 

books, C. Reginald Dalby, 

was more interested in 

artistic style. The author 

was particularly infuriated 

with Henry the Green 

Engine and had him 

wrecked in one story so he 

could be rebuilt! James’s 

presentation included plenty 

of biographical detail 

about the author. 

Club members had an 

outing to Brentford, too, 

where three guides 

revealed everything to 

interest the visitor, including 

a Victorian sewage 

pumping station, the 18th 

century soaphouse, and the 

large complex of roads, railways, 

docks and canals in 

the borough. 

Postcards relating to mail recovery from aircraft and shipping disasters was the subject 

of Peter Day’s talk at the NORFOLK club last month. Cards of the vessels before and 

at the time of an accident, cards carried on board and related messages were all introduced 

into a fascinating mix. Peter also covered wartime wrecks. 

NOTTINGHAM Postcard Club chairman Graham Hopcroft 

has arranged a tour of the city’s Council House to replace 

this month’s meeting. It takes place on the evening of 13th 

July, starting at 7pm. For further details and to book a 

place, ring Graham on 0115 9224057. 

A touch of the black 

stuff 

BRADFORD Postcard Society 

stalwart Joan Dennison 

was on the Guinness in 

May, basing her ‘Toucan & 

all that’ talk and display on 

postcards related to the 

famous drink. Joan was 

born in Dublin, so is obviously 

well-qualified to deal 

with the subject! She put on 

an excellent display which 

included some superb real 

photographic cards showing 

interior and exterior 

views of the factory. Fascinating 

historical background 

information about 

founder Arthur Guinness 

came out, along with information 

on the artists who 

had designed adverts for 

the company. 

Stonehaven nostagia 

GRAMPIAN Postcard Club’s 

second meeting welcomed 

five new members as Brian 

Watt entertained with ‘Old 

Stonehaven’, which generated 

plenty of discussion 

and reminiscing. Dealer 

Moira Rothnie had her stock 

on display, and with other 

members bringing spares, 

the informal trading was 

greatly enjoyed. 

Three-way tie 

Guests from the Cotswold 

and Mendip clubs were at 

BRISTOL’s session last 

month, when all three clubs 

gave short presentations. 

The host club showed a collection 

of photos of the 

development and construction 

of the ‘Bristol 

Brabazon’ aircraft, which 

first flew in 1949. The runway 

at Filton had to be 

quadrupled in length to 

accommodate it. Cotswold 

offered postcards of the 28 

medieval windows of St. 

Mary’s Church, Fairford, 

and a fine selection of postcards 

covering special 

events at the church, including 

fetes, outings and 

choirs. Mendip’s display 

was a slideshow of postcards 

and photos covering 

the Raynsfords in wartime, 

with cards showing the 

family village of Chiddingfold 

in Surrey, various WW1 

postcards, including one of 

a soldier member of the 

family who died at Arras in 

May 1917. 

* Details of club contacts, 

meeting times and venues 

can be found in 2010 Picture 

Postcard Annual. 


happened. 

When I started work in the 

early 1970s I looked at the 

possibility of increasing the 

collection and within a very 

few years started to attend 

some of the small local fairs. 

It was reassuring to be 

encouraged by some of the 

helpful dealers who gave me, 

a novice, much information, 

help and advice. Since that 

time my collection has 

increased with a growing 

interest in both Military and 

Greetings silk cards. Like 

many collectors, my interests 

now have branched out to 

other subjects which include 

local topographical, Clovelly 

and Lyme Regis. Also, for 

something different, I have 

amassed a good collection of 

Bamforth comics which also 

include the short series showing 

the rather naughty ‘Oscar 

the Pup’. Modern Lifeboat 

cards also come within my 

collecting interests. 

Postcard collecting is an 

absorbing hobby and I hope 

that both the small local fairs 

and their larger 

counterparts 

continue 

to thrive, giving 

the opportunity 

for 

beginners to 

start collections 

as well as 

helping the 

more advanced 

collector to find 

that little gem 

which is out 

there waiting to 

be found. 

Desert Island 

Postcards 

with Julia Sayers 

In the early 1960s I was given a couple of silk greetings 

postcards by an elderly relative. They were 

somewhat grubby (later found 

to be foxed as well!) and I 

thought it a shame that they 

had been unkindly treated in 

the past. I put them away in a 

drawer and forgot about them 

until we moved in 1967 when 

they were rediscovered. It 

was then that I thought about 

researching their history but, 

still being at school with 

exams looming and a distinct 

lack of funds, nothing much 

A nice example of a Military 

Silk sent from Frank Adams 

on 2 nd June 1916. The Gordon 

Highlanders were the 

75 th Regiment of Foot 

Guards. 

A Royal Flying 

Corps silk postcard sent on 21 st 

April 1917. Within a year the RFC became part of the Royal 

Air Force on 1 st April 1918. 

Chaldon Road, Caterham, 

showing the Primary School I attended in the 1950s. 

Apart from the fact that the fountain is no longer there, the 

buildings remain largely unchanged. 

(c.1910) 

(above) Crazy 

Kate’s Cottage, Clovelly. An artist-drawn 

card by E W Haselhurst and published by Vivian 

Mansell in series 2138. This is reported to be the 

oldest cottage in Clovelly. History books relate the 

story that Kate stood at her window and watched 

her husband’s boat sink in a storm out at sea. This 

event turned her brain and she went crazy, hence 

the nickname. 

(above) One of a short series of Bamforth comics in their 

‘Oscar the Pup’ series (G299). Poor Oscar seems to be in 

trouble on every card! (postally used 20/6/1962). 

(right) The former RAF Station, Kenley. The main entrance 

shown is but 300 yards from my home. Many of the buildings 

have now been demolished and a lot of the land has 

been developed into a modern housing estate. However, 

there are two gliding schools which regularly still use part 

of the old airfield. (c.1937-1940). 


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Fire Service The Collection of an ex-Fireman Photos and Postcards Part I 

Leicestershire The Collection of a Local Gentleman Part II 

The Alex Jackson Yorkshire Collection Part IV (80 lots) 

Art Topographical inc Tucks The Collection of a Derbyshire Lady Part I 

Marlborough The Collection of a Lady Part III 

The John Henty Mabel Lucie Attwell Collection Part VIII 

The Vanessa Sykes Brighton and South Coast Collection Part VI (60 lots) 

Regimental Silks the Collection of a Welsh Gentleman Part V 

The Doctor Hollingsworth Collection Part XVII 

The Nigel Edwards Collection and Stock Part XVIII 

Cinema The Collection of a Nottingham Gentleman Part VIII 

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Belle Vue - big and bold 

Norman Ellis seeks amusement 

in Manchester 

By the time I was nine, I had enjoyed week-long holidays 

at Blackpool, Scarborough (both three times), 

Llandudno, Skegness and Southport (each once). 

These were at the end of July, just before the old 

Bank Holiday. An uncle with a car occasionally took 

my parents and me on day trips to places such as the 

North Yorkshire Moors, but he never risked driving 

his Morris 8 up or down Sutton Bank. A friend of my 

uncle once took us to Morecambe for the day. Day 

trips by bus or train included York, Haworth, Ilkley, 

Otley, Harrogate and Knaresborough - or Golden 

Acre Park and Roundhay Park at Leeds. One place I 

never got to, and which I wanted to visit, was Belle 

Vue Zoo & Amusement Park at Manchester. 

The Monkey 

House was built in 1881 in the Moorish 

style. It was kept at a temperature of 60-70 degrees 

Fahrenheit by hot water pipes. The large cage in its centre 

contained a wide variety of monkeys, plus devices such as 

a village pump where the primates could draw water (and 

amuse the children). Around the periphery of the building 

were smaller cages. (Horrocks postcard). 

The 1939-45 War began 

just before my tenth birthday, 

and holidays away 

were severely disrupted 

or, in my case, non-existent. 

‘Holidays at Home’ 

were eventually organised 

by some towns and villages. 

Hitler did not drop 

many bombs in the Wakefield 

area where I lived. I 

was fifteen when the war 

ended and studying for 

my School Certificate. I 

forgot about Belle Vue. 

But I did eventually get 

there in 1967. Ten years 

after, Belle Vue Zoo & 

Amusement Park was in 

rapid demise. This ‘Playground 

of the North’ had 

provided pleasure for over 

140 years. I still have the 

sixty-page official guide, 

price 1/6d, which I purchased 

on my visit. It 

The Indian 

Temple & Grotto originated in 1870 

as a fanciful feature. In later years it was known as the Indian 

Rockery. (Horrocks postcard). 

gives details of the animals, 

birds, reptiles and 

fish, plus information on 

the amusement park, gardens, 

restaurants, bars 

and the then latest attraction, 

the Model Village, 

complete with medieval 

castle and heli-port. 

Belle Vue owed its 

early development to one 

John Jennison, who was 

born at Bulwell, near Nottingham, 

in 1793. From an 

early age, he showed a keen 

interest in animals and 

plants, eventually becoming 

a jobbing gardener. By 

the middle 1820s, married 

and living at Adswood near 

Stockport, he opened his 

own gardens on summer 

Sunday afternoons, calling 

them Strawberry Gardens. 

By 1829, the enterprise 

included small animals and 

birds, and had become a 

full-time occupation, with 

the many visitors paying an 

admission charge. He 

turned his house into a pub 

which he called the Adam & 

Eve and built an adjoining 

brew house. The success of 

his ventures, and lack of 

space for expansion, led 

Jennison to consider an 

alternative site. In 1836, he 

took a 6 month trial lease 

of Belle Vue, on the new 

road between Manchester 

and Hyde. The successful 

trial led to the lease being 

extended to 99 years. 

The Belle Vue site had 

once been used for lime 

extraction. In 1819, one 

John Walker procured a 

lease on this land, on which 

he built an inn combined 

with a farmhouse, which he 

titled Belle Vue House. Two 

acres of the 35 acre plot 

were allocated for public 

use, with a bowling green, 

trees, gardens and walks. 

But in 1834 the lease was 

taken over by William Crisp, 

who introduced rabbit 

coursing. He advertised the 

establishment as Belle Vue 

Tea Gardens. These passed 

to John Jennison in 1836 

and remained with the Jennison 

family until 1925, but 

continued under other 

administrations until 1977. 

John Jennison transferred 

his zoological collection 

from Adwood to Belle Vue 

and disposed of his former 

site. He concentrated on 

enlarging and improving his 

new location. The problems 

were immense and he 

almost became bankrupt 

during a recession in 1843. 

The Pheasantry & Penguin House was erected in 1888. 

Inside was a huge glass tank where the penguins were fed 

at regular intervals, and visitors could watch them ‘flying’ 

underwater’. Pheasants were kept in the cage to the right 

of the main building, with eagles in the annex at the 

extreme left. (Horrocks postcard). 


T h e 

Open-Air Dancing Platform was 

created in the 1850s, being provided with a timber floor. 

In the background (right) is the Small Lake, constructed in 

1843, but later called the Firework Lake, because of the 

spectacular firework displays staged there against a scenic 

background known as the ‘Picture’. A background is visible, 

probable the one used in 1904. (Horrocks postcard).

The 

Ballroom provided accommodation 

for 2500 dancers, and was said to be the 

finest in Manchester. The ceiling was ornamented with 

scenes of interesting places on the globe. The side panels 

had pictures of animals in their native haunts. Directly outside 

was the Open-Air Dancing Platform, mainly for Summer 

use. (Horrocks postcard). 

But the acreage was 

increased and many innovations 

were brought in. The 

first guide book was issued 

in 1847 and mentioned an 

enlarged zoological collection, 

a maze and a racecourse. 

The really spectacular 

firework displays 

displays; Richard acted 

more as a liaison officer 

with the visitors. 

Overall, Belle Vue went 

from strength to strength. 

The Great Lake, originally 

dug in 1858, was enlarged 

in 1876 and 

This 

image of the Bear Pits by Hermann 

Fleury, in ‘The Star Series’ of postcards, is similar 

to that on the Horrocks card. Fleury’s human figures 

have a similar appeal to those of Lowry, although the style 

is quite different. And with a few deft strokes, his polar 

bears look alive. (Fleury ‘Star Series’ postcard). 

The Bear Pits and 

Polar Bear Cage were constructed between 

1853 and 1855.The brown bears generally on show were of 

the type seen as street performers in Edwardian times. The 

polar bears were firm favourites; over the years they 

acquired names such as Max, Lucy, Snowball and Thor. 

(Horrocks postcard). 

were introduced in 1852, 

although smaller ones had 

been held previously. The 

famous Brass Band Contests 

began in 1853. 

By the time John Jennison 

died in 1869 after a 

prolonged and crippling illness, 

he had built up an 

institution of which Manchester 

was proud. Control 

of Belle Vue passed to his 

sons, George, Charles, 

James and Richard, and 

eldest daughter Ann. Most 

of the work fell upon 

George, whereas Ann 

played little part. George 

Jennison died in 1878, aged 

only 46. The administration 

was divided between the 

three remaining brothers. 

Charles concentrated on the 

botanical and legal side; 

James concerned himself 

with the zoo and firework 

1882, and given a central 

island with clock tower, 

which was useful for timing 

the hire of boats. Paddle 

steamers were introduced 

to the lake, which was used 

for ice skating in winter. The 

land near the Hyde Road 

entrance was provided with 

all manner of amusements, 

including the Jungle Shooting 

Range, Steam Horses 

and a diversion called 

Ocean Wave, which gave an 

impression of being at sea. 

The grounds reached a pinnacle 

of popularity in the 

1890s. The Edwardian period 

and the time up to the 

Great War saw further 

developments, with yet 

another generation of Jennisons 

playing an active 

part. Most of the postcards 

which accompany this article 

are from the Edwardian 

The 

elephant is dubbed here as 

the Children’s Delight. Over the years, several Indian 

elephants provided rides for the children. The rides 

were discontinued in the late 1960s. The Fireworks 

Viewing Stand is in the background. (Fleury ‘Star Series’ 

postcard). 

era. 

From 1856, Belle Vue 

guide books were regularly 

issued. I have them for 

1916, 1929, 1953 and 1967. 

The guide for 1916 has 32 

pages, a very detailed foldout 

pictorial map of the 

grounds, and pen sketches 

of some of the animals and 

the ballroom. (Later guide 

books included photographs). 

The book gives a 

tour of all the animal, bird 

and reptile houses, starting 

near the Hyde Road 

entrance with the aviary 

and lion and tiger house. 

Numbers on the cages tallied 

with those in the guide. 

There is a summary of areas 

not normally open to the 

public, including the bakery, 

brewery, gas works and 

The Chinese Café provided a more a-la-carte menu than 

the other refreshment rooms. Fleury’s artistry brings the 

scene alive; the fellow at the nearest table seems to have 

quite a following amongst the ladies. (Fleury ‘Star Series’ 

postcard). 

continued.... 


BELLE VUE - BIG 

AND BOLD 

continued. from page 25 

known single-deckers) also 

passed near the grounds. 

Belle Vue was served by 

three railway 

The Figure 8 Toboggan 

was introduced in 1908 by James Jennison, 

a son of founder John Jennison, after he had seen 

one displayed at the White 

City, Stretford, Manchester. 

The postcard was issued 

shortly after. 

firework factory, all of 

which required a permit to 

view. Several refreshment 

rooms are listed, although 

much of the food was the 

cold type, such as ham or 

beef sandwiches at 2d per 

square, Eccles cakes at 2d 

each and veal pies at 4d 

each. There was a surcharge 

to enter some of the 

posher refreshment places. 

For the really affluent, 

Sandeman’s 1870 vintage 

Port was 10/- per bottle. 

The guide gives details 

of how to get there by tramcar, 

omnibus, train or cab. 

Two different tram routes 

ran from Market 

Street in the centre of 

Manchester. Frequency on 

each route was every 3-4 

minutes, with extra trams if 

needed. Circular route tramcars 

(Manchester’s well- 


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 pulling 

loaded carts, assisting with demolition, and taking part in 

Whitsuntide processions. 

(left) It seems to be 

feeding time at the 

large monkey enclosure 

in the Monkey 

House, c.1910. The 

primates were given 

various appliances to 

relieve their boredom, 

including a 

rocking horse, an elevator 

and a water 

pump. 

The 

Fireworks Viewing Stand, 

which seated 4000, was probably erected in the 

1850s, when the fireworks displays were given a new lease 

of life, each display becoming a scenario of a major historical 

event. Note the bandstand incorporated into the 

seating area. Lizzie wrote on the back of the card that she 

was enjoying her holiday, but she doesn’t mention Belle 

Vue. The card was posted in 

an envelope, c.1910. 

stations – Longsight 

(LNWR), Belle Vue 

(GCR/MR) and Ashburys 

(GCR). From 

the centre of Manchester 

to Belle Vue, 

the cheapest fares 

were by tram, being 

one penny each 

way; the bus fares 

were slightly dearer, 

with the train 

fares a bit more 

expensive still. 

The cab fares from 

Manchester Victoria 

were 2/6d total for one or 

two passengers and 3/4d 

total for three or more passengers. 

The railway companies 

ran excursions to the Zoological 

Gardens from various 

towns and cities, even 

into the British Railways 

era. I have a handbill for 

Easter Monday, 23 April 

1962, for a train from Bradford 

Exchange to Belle Vue, 

leaving Bradford at 11.40 

and arriving back there at 

9.09. The fare was 10/- for 

adults and 5/- for children. 

The handbill trumpets the 

huge funfair, boating, 

miniature railway, speedway, 

stock car racing, 

wrestling and dancing. 

The war and its aftermath 

brought difficulties. 

Many of the animal keepers 

joined the services and 

were replaced at the zoo by 

women. New and replacement 

animals were difficult 

to obtain, whilst animal 

feed was in short supply. 

The government used parts 

of the grounds for military 

purposes. Some normality 

returned after the war, and 

various exhibitions were 

held, including dog, pigeon 

and fruit shows. In 1925, 

control of Belle Vue passed 

from John Jennison & Co 

Ltd (created in 1919) to a 

new company, Belle Vue 

(Manchester) Ltd, with John 

Henry Iles as managing 

director. In 1956, this was 

taken over by Sir Leslie 

Joseph and Charles Forte 

(later Trust House Forte). 

Dating 

from c.1932, this panorama 

shows just a few of Belle Vue’s entertainments, 

looking across to the Hyde Road main entrance. Included 

are Over the Falls (left) and the Bobs Coaster and the Flying 

Boats (right). This coaster, introduced in 1930, was a 

worthy alternative to the Figure 8 Toboggan. It was usually 

known simply as Bobs, because of its shilling charge.

R F 

Postcard 

Fairs: 

This is 

probably a private-hire day’s outing, 

arranged by a club, pub or Sunday school. The destination 

may have been Belle Vue Zoological Gardens. The 

children are wearing their best apparel, and the tramcars, 

new in 1904, appear to be in immaculate condition. 

Final closure of Belle 

Vue Zoo came in November 

1977. Many of the animals 

were found new homes. For 

a few years following, opening 

hours of the Amusement 

Park were severely 

curtailed. By 1981, despite 

protests, it was obvious that 

much of the site was to be 

used for housing development, 

subsequently carried 

out by McAlpines and Wimpey. 

Some of the last buildings 

to be used were the 

Exhibition Hall and the 

Kings Hall, which had 

attracted a variety of events. 

I remember passing 

through the Longsight 

entrance in 1978 and 1979 

to visit indoor antique fairs 

in the hope of finding old 

postcards. 

Many of the postcards 

of Belle Vue originate from 

the Edwardian period. The 

best known colour series is 

that of Horrocks & Co, art 

printers of Ashton-under- 

Lyne. A similar series came 

from Gottschalk, Dreyfus & 

Davis of London, in ‘The 

Star Series’, printed in 

Bavaria, the artist being 

Hermann Fleury. The photographic 

cards are usually 

uncredited and lacking in 

piquancy. 

Bibliography: 

Looking Back at Belle Vue, by 

Robert Nicholls, published by 

Willow Publishing, Timperley, 

Altrincham. 

The Belle Vue Story, by Robert 

Nicholls, published by Neil 

Richardson, Radcliffe, Manchester. 

Article on Belle Vue by Peter 

Crummett in Picture Postcard 

Monthly, June1980. 

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Auctions 

Balloon Post postcards hit the 

heights 

The Warwick and Warwick auction held on June 9th 

contained two postcards carried on the famous 1903 

Lifeboat Saturday balloon flight. Estimated at £1,000, 

they realised £920 each. Co-incidentally, the next 

Warwick and Warwick auction also contains a rare 

balloon post card, the Daily Graphic Balloon Post 

flight, which crash-landed in Sweden. 

The June sale contained 

several dealers’ stocks of 

topographicals, offered on a 

county by county basis. 

The highest realisation was 

£2,875 paid for 450 Lancashire 

cards, followed by 

£2,405 for 500 Kent. Other 

county ranges where the 

estimates were almost doubled 

by the realisations 

included Anglesey, Buckinghamshire, 

Caernarvonshire, 

Cheshire, Cumbria, 

Norfolk and Warwickshire. 

Two collections of North 

Wales each estimated at 

£600, one containing 500 

cards and the other containing 

400 cards, made £1,495 

and £1,553 respectively. 

The foreign topographicals 

included a general collection 

of 348, with strength 

in South America, estimated 

at a conservative £160, 

which realised a surprising 

£1,380. A dealer’s stock of 

500 Ireland, estimated at 

£480, went for £1,610. 

The sale contained 

over 50 general collections 

and miscellaneous stocks, 

all of which sold at figures 

in excess of estimate. In the 

publishers’ section, a substantial 

collection of 4,800 

Bamforths with a pre-sale 

estimate of £500, realised 

£2,243 and 2,700 Salmon, 

mainly unused and modern, 

estimated at £55, eventually 

sold for £425. The Shipping 

section produced excellent 

results as usual, with 450 

liners estimated at £300 

realising £863. 26 different 

Nippon Yussen Kaisha Line 

steamer vignettes made 

£287. In the Artists section, 

the best realisation for a single 

card was the £126 paid 

for ‘Who will get the Kiss?’ 

by Louis Wain, published by 

Wrench. 27 ‘Old Bill’ by 

Bairnsfather made £48 and 

nine ‘Bonzo’ by Studdy £80. 

The Cheshire Lines 

Railway was a very small 

company and their official 

cards are rare; two of them 

in the sale were estimated 

at £60 and realised £80. 

The next Warwick and 

Warwick auction will be 

held on Wednesday September 

1st. 

Militant 

hop-pickers strike 

at Nottingham 

One of the attractions of 

postcard auctions is the 

appearance of cards that 

you just don’t come 

across anywhere else, and 

Trevor Vennett-Smith’s 

latest Nottingham sale 

threw up a trio of real photographics 

featuring a 

hop-pickers’ demonstration 

in Tonbridge c.1910. 

The protest demanded 

duty on foreign hops 

which the workers felt 

were endangering their 

livelihoods. Each card sold 

for £98, probably a snip 

given their rarity! Embroidered 

silk cards looked 

impressive in this auction, 

with realisations including 

Royal Bucks Hussars 

(£264) and Civil Service 

Rifles (£132). Two big collections 

also caught the 

eye - 192 Shipping more 

than doubled estimate to 

reach £791, while a 472- 

strong lot with high glamour 

content made £720. 

An unusual lot of 215 

French-issued Tuck 

Oilettes sold for £216 and 

165 Royalty, mainly German 

and British, reached 

£156 

Ȧrtist postcards of 

note included 24 Attwells 

at £192, a set of six Harry 

Payne Norfolk Lanes at 

£62, and six Payne cards 

published by Stewart & 

Woolf at £60. 183 Catherina 

Kleins realised £311 

and 107 Charles Dana Gibson 

£228. 

Among overseas 

material were 50 Brazil 

cards at £108, a collection 

of 71 Tasmania at £310, 17 

Italian Gruss aus at £156 

and a selection of 11 

Trans-Siberian Railway 

cards at £102. 

Single card highlights 

were a Shell b/w advert at 

£126, two Boer War cartoons 

at £86 and £74, Kippax 

railway station at £86, 

and a sepia Brighton nonanimated 

street scene at 

£66. 

eBay notes 

Nine bidders chased this 

real photographic card of 

SS Titanic (right) in 

Southampton Docks just 

before sailing. With a message 

on the back stating the 

card was bought from the 

quarter-master (who perished 

in the disaster) the 

postcard, which was never 

postally used, went to £521. 

Meanwhile, just a couple of 

bidders chased each other 

up on two Gladys Cooper 

postcards (mostly ten a 

penny!), which sold for an 

astonishing £60 and £55. 

Top embroidered silk postcards 

of the past month on 

the internet auction were 

South Africa Heavy Artillery 

at £322 and South Irish 

Horse at £321. Sometimes, 

there’s little obvious reason 

for price fluctuations. An 

embroidered silk ‘Australia’ 

design has recently sold for 

£150, yet on its previous 

appearance on eBay went 

for £26! On the other hand, 

a Royal Naval Air Service 

silk made just £4.80. 

A selection of Mauritius 

views sold for between 

£52 and £79. 

Other highlights: 

Ballet, Nijinsky £245 

RMS Olympic, camouflaged 

£207 

Josephine Baker £196 

Embroidered silk, Royal Dublin 

Fusiliers £176 

China, bell tower at Hsi-An-Fu 

£170 

Titanic col. artist-drawn £162 

Woven silk, RMS Lusitania 

£150 

Emb’d silk, HMS Victory £150 

Emb’d silk, Royal Munster 

Fusiliers £140 

Judaica cartoon £137 

Josephine Baker doing 

Charleston £127 

Emb’d silk, North Irish Horse 

£127 

Shipping, RMS Britannic £122 

(a card of the liner pre-launch 

made £120) 

Mucha, art nouveau Repos de 

la nuit £122 

Motor-racing, Malcolm 

Campbell autographed £115 

Dancers, Vienna 1920s £113 

Santa Claus HTL £112 

Football ground RP, unlocated 

£110 

Suffragette comic b/w £104 

Cricket, 1908 Australian team 

£103 

Singer sewing machine advert 

£103 

(2 others made £89 each) 

West Hartlepool, col. street 

scene £102 

Hallowe’en pub’d Winsch £101 

Redruth tram pub’d Bragg £100 

Motor-racing, Gordon Bennett 

1903 £100 

Mucha art nouveau £98 

Tobacco advert, Ogdens, SS 

Tunisian £97 

Emb’d silk, 9th Queens Royal 

Lancers £97 

Woven silk Flames 

‘Lampernisse 1914’ £94 

Burnley fair £91 

Pan-American Exposition 1901 

£90 

Emb’d silk, Royal Irish Rifles 

£90 

Hong Kong, fire brigade £87 

Limerick, RC church £85 

Limerick, convent £85 

Suffragettes, Emily Davison 

funeral procession £85 

Suffragette, Annie Kenney £84 


£83 

Ballet, Russian dancer £83 

Llantwit Major, brewery £82 

Cricket, Sutcliffe & Bowes £82 

Formby rly station £82 

Woven silk, patriotic £82 

Limerick, river scene £81 

Suffragettes, Coronation 

procession £80 

Egham, flower show £80 


£79 

Ulster, Home Rule £77 

Cinema, Anna Wong £75 

Exeter prison, LL-pub’d £73 

Aviation, Aer Lingus airliner at 

Northolt £69 

Gypsy Rose Lee £67 

Ringwood, railway station £63 

Burnley, fireman £62 

Fawley rly station £62 

Mitcham Fair £58 

Evesham, packing narcissi £52 

Bamforth seaside comic, 

camera theme £51 

Original postcard artwork 

Dudley £140 

Mike £132 

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know if we’ve missed something 

amazing! 

Miniature delights 

An impressive group of 46 

postcards of miniature railways 

and minor lines made 

the best price in Dalkeith’s 

May auction in 

Bournemouth, selling for 

£330. Many real photographic 

cards were among 

the collection. Other lots to 

catch the eye were two 

town collections: 158 Bude 

and district postcards 

realised £202 and 71 from 

Lewes made £184. In June, 

top lot was the 48 postcards 

of The New Forest that 

made £119, more than twice 

estimate. A Gale & Poldenpublished 

series of 22 Victoria 

Cross winners sold for 

£100, five times estimate. 


The magic of Hollywood 

Philip Yaxley and his bewitching postcards 

Hollywood, particularly in its golden age from the 

1920s to the 1940s, was just made for the picture 

postcard. Famous studios, legendary film stars and 

their palatial homes, movie theatres, restaurants and 

hotels, even Hollywood Boulevard itself, afforded 

publishers so much material. Academy award ceremonies, 

premieres and other glitzy events added to 

the subject mix. 

Since my youth I have been bewitched by the 

magic of the flicks and four visits to Hollywood in 

recent years have fired my desire to add postcards of 

the world’s movie capital to my cinematic collection. 

Shown here are some of my favourites from the 300 

or so I have acquired to date. 

C a r d s 

were published in 1950 and 1951 to 

mark the Oscar ceremonies in those years. The event on 

both occasions was held at the Pantages Theatre on Hollywood 

Boulevard. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and 

Sciences, which initiated the Oscars, was established in 

1927 by Louis B. Mayer , Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks 

and others. (A-B-H Publication, Los Angeles). 

Today the Hollywood area 

is part of Los Angeles and 

boasts a population in 

excess of 200,000, but 

when the picture postcard 

was already enjoying its 

own golden age in the first 

decade of the last century 

what became known as 

Tinseltown was still a rural 

community of scattered 

homes and farms among 

orange and lemon groves 

outside L.A. Then in 1912 

Carl Laemmie set up the 

Universal film manufacturing 

company and a year 

later Cecil B. De Mille 

directed the first full-length 

feature film, The Squaw 

Man, for the Jessie Lasky 

Play Company in a barn, 

which today houses the 

‘must-see’ Hollywood Heritage 

Museum. With 

unspoilt countryside, ideal 

for Westerns, the proximity 

of a beautiful coastline 

and, most importantly, 

year-round sunshine, the 

area was just made for 

movie-making. Studios 

multiplied and in the early 

days ones established by 

Mary Pickford, Al Christie, 

Mack Sennett, Charlie 

Chaplin and Fox were 

among those pictured on 

postcards - particularly by 

the Californian Postcard 

Company of California and 

the Pacific Novelty Company 

of San Francisco and 

Los Angeles. Some of the 

former’s cards are eminently 

fascinating as they 

feature scenes of film sets 

and the shooting of movies 

starring such greats of the 

silent era as Gloria Swanson, 

Douglas Fairbanks, 

Mary Pickford and the Talmadge 

sisters Norma and Constance. 

Eventually, as well 

as publishing companies, 

some of the big studios, 

among them Universal, 

Warners, Paramount and 

Metro-Goldwyn Mayer, 

issued their own promotional 

cards. 

Film fans who flocked 

to the picture palaces in the 

(above) Looking 

west along Hollywood 

Boulevard this card, produced 

by the Tichnor Art 

Company, L.A., was 

postally used on 5 July 

1942. The Pentages, 

another of the famous 

movie theatres located 

on Hollywood Boulevard, 

was opened in 

1930 and was once 

owned by Howard 

Hughes. The Academy 

Awards were held at 

the theatre from 1950 

to 1959. 

1920s and 1930s to 

escape the harsh 

realities of the daily 

grind in times of 

depression and in 

the 1940s from the 

horrors of war were 

captivated by the 

extravagant and 

surreal lifestyles of their silver 

screen heroes. Like fan 

magazines and sensational 

stories in newspaper gossip 

columns, postcards, too, 

must have played their part 

in fuelling the fans’ obsession 

with those movie gods 

and goddesses created by 

the studio publicity 

machines. Many cards were 

continued...... 

The Pacific’s Cinerama Theatre, 

located on Sunset and Ivar, is seen here at its opening in 

November 1963 when it staged the premiere of Stanley 

Kramer’s It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. It is characterized 

by the first geodesic dome in concrete anywhere in 

the world. (Colourpicture Publishers Inc, Boston, Mass). 


THE MAGIC OF 

HOLLYWOOD 


Frank Sinatra seen at his 

handprint ceremony on the 

forecourt of Grauman’s 

Chinese Theatre on 20 

July 1965. Hollywood legends 

have been imprinting 

their hand and footprints 

in soft cement 

there since the Spring of 

1927 when Mary Pickford 

and Douglas Fairbanks 

were immortalized in 

that way. Sid Grauman 

thought of the idea 

when he saw Norma 

Talmadge accidentally 

step in the wet cement. In Betty Grable’s case an 

imprint was made of her “million dollar” legs! (Mitock & 

Sons, North Hollywood). 

Republic Pictures 

were 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. It 

was famous for producing B Westerns and serials. (Mike 

Roberts Colour Production, Berkeley California). 

The shooting of Robin Hood at the Fairbanks-Pickford studios 

in 1922. Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford were 

probably the biggest stars of the silents and Fairbanks 

played the title role in this film. He is seen in the foreground 

talking with some of the crew. A model of Nottingham 

Castle was featured in one of the biggest sets ever 

built in Hollywood. (Western Publishing & Novelty Co, Los 

Angeles). 

produced showing stars’ 

homes and two companies 

which published such cards 

were the Pacific Novelty 

Company of San Francisco 

and Los Angeles in the 

1920s and 1930s and for 

decades the Western Publishing 

& Novelty Company. 

The latter was probably the 

most prolific of all Hollywood 

The premiere of 

Prince Valiant at the famous Grauman’s 

Chinese Theatre in 1954. One of the first cinemascope productions 

and shot largely in Britain, the movie starred 

Robert Wagner, James Mason and Janet Leigh. (Colourpicture, 

Boston, Mass). 

postcard publishers with 

many of their cards of the 

“linen” type. 

The correspondence 

on some of these cards 

makes interesting reading 

and one in my collection 

concerns Latin lover 

Rudolph Valentino’s death 

in 1926 at the age of only 

31, an event which saw millions 

of women go into 

mourning. Part of the message 

is “...Rudolph Valentino 

sure left some wonderful 

cars, household effects, 

jewellery etc, the auction 

sale was on for a week. I’d 

The famous Paramount 

Studios Administration block in the late 

1930s. Jesse Lasky was one of the driving forces behind 

the studio’s early success with Cecil B.De Mille its stage 

director. Laskey and De Mille produced the first feature 

film, The Squaw Man, in 1913 in an old barn, which now 

houses the Hollywood Heritage Museum. (Los Angeles 

Photo Postcard Co.) 


This card was sent from Santa Monica to England in 

November 1941, the writer commenting: “I am sitting on 

the cliffs overlooking the beach homes of the movie 

world.” Clark Gable and Carole Lombard bought the house 

at Encino in 1938, then after Lombard was killed in a plane 

crash in 1942, the house was Gable’s home until his death 

in 1960. (Western Publishing & Novelty Co, Los Angeles).

The Hollywood 

Canteen was opened by Bette Davis and 

John Garfield in 1942 as a club for servicemen, where they 

were waited on by stars like Rita Hayworth and Dorothy 

Lamour. Postcards could be mailed free from the canteen 

and were stamped “Free Hollywood Canteen.” Sometimes, 

service personnel asked stars to autograph the 

backs of cards and this one bears the signatures, among 

others, of Anne Shirley, Fortunio Bona Nova and Helen 

Vinson. The Hollywood Canteen was the subject of a feature 

film made in 1944. (Longshaw Card Co. Los Angeles). 

Sent from Los 

Angeles in December 1928, this card 

shows the world famous Grauman’s Chinese Theatre on 

Hollywood Boulevard. Grauman’s has hosted many premieres 

since it opened with that for Cecil B. De Mille’s King 

of Kings in 1927. On its forecourt can be seen the handprints 

and footprints of the stars. (Pacific Novelty Co, San 

Francisco and Los Angeles). 

Picture Postcard Annual 2010 

is now available at £4.75 with an up to date 

directory of dealers, fair organisers, auctions 

etc plus lots of features and articles, and a list 

of important 2010 postcard fairs. On sale from 

your favourite dealer or direct from the 

publishers at 

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UK, £2.50 Europe, £4.50 rest of world) 

The famous Hollywood Bowl has hosted performances by 

musical greats from Frank Sinatra to The Beatles - as well 

as the annual Easter Sunrise service - for over 90 years. 

The shell covering the stage dates from 1929. (Los Angeles 

Photo Postcard Co.). 

liked to have seen inside 

one of his houses, but the 

crush was awful. I’d sure 

like one of his saddle horses 

and one of his beautiful 

dogs.” 

Another comment 

referring to Charlie Chaplin 

reads: 

“...isn’t Charlie a rotter in 

private life; I think the public 

ought to taboo his pictures 

for a while. They say he 

already has another girl in 

his eye....” 

Messages such as 

these provide a wonderful 

insight into Hollywood gossip 

of the time. 

Whilst studios and 

stars’ homes make up the 

bulk of material, other cards 

also reflect the glamorous 

lives of the movie idols, 

who had to be seen at fashionable 

clubs, hotels and 

eateries. The Pig N’Whistle 

and Musso and Franks’ are 

restaurants on Hollywood 

Boulevard which have survived 

from the 1920s and 

were once frequented by 

the likes of Chaplin, Cecil B. 

De Mille and Clark Gable. 

Historic movie theatres 

and the lavish premieres 

staged at them are most 

collectable. Most famous 

are the Egyptian and the 

Chinese, both opened by 

theatrical mogul Sid Grauman 

on Hollywood Boulevard 

in 1922 and 1927 

respectively. But there are 

many others, among them 

El Capitan, the Pantages 

and the Pacific Cinerama - 

all part of Hollywood’s heritage. 

An article such as this 

cannot possibly do justice 

to the breadth of the Tinseltown 

scene, but merely 

serves as a taster. Postcards 

feature many iconic buildings 

- like the Hollywood 

Bowl and the Griffith Park 

Observatory. In fact, almost 

every card in my collection 

adds another chapter to the 

fascinating 

story. 

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The Swedish Art Deco 

Artist Einar Nerman 

Michael Hauskeller 

Many great postcard artists are virtually unknown in 

Britain. One of the best and most original was the 

Swede Einar Nerman, whose cards only occasionally 

pop up in dealers’ boxes over here, probably 

because most of them were published in Sweden, 

the vast majority by Axel Eliasson’s Konstförlag in 

Stockholm. However, the fact that one of his theatre 

advertising cards (published by John Waddington in 

the 1920s) graced the cover of the 2009 edition of 

Picture Postcard Values provides some evidence that 

the charm of Nerman’s postcard designs is not 

entirely lost upon British collectors and that they 

might be far more popular than they presently are if 

they were only more readily available. 

As it is, though, Nerman 

cards are rather hard to 

find. Even on eBay they are 

rarely seen, which is rather 

astonishing, given that all in 

all Nerman designed about 

1,000 (!) postcards. Many of 

them were published in 

Published 

by KC-Kort and numbered 

221 

two sizes, the familiar 5 ½ x 

3 ½ in, and the smaller 4.1 x 

2.7 in, which was very common 

in Sweden at the time. 

A checklist of Nerman’s 

postcards containing many 

illustrations of his work was 

produced by Sonja Holmgren 

and Sten Schüssler 

and published in five parts 

by Upplands Vykortsförening 

in 1995. Picture Postcard 

Values states a price of £18 

for his Art Deco designs, 

and £25 for his theatre 

poster designs. The latter 

figure is fairly accurate, but 

the former is much too 

high. I’ve found that at 

postcard fairs you will normally 

be asked to pay 

about £8 for a Nerman card 

in excellent condition. On 

eBay you can get them even 

cheaper (most of them, that 

is – some rare cards always 

command a higher price, 

but I’ve never had to pay 

more than £15). But who 

exactly was Nerman? 

Born in 1888 in Norrköping, 

Sweden, Einar Nerman 

grew up to be a lifelong 

lover of both the plastic 

and the performing arts. 

He studied painting first in 

Stockholm and then in Paris 

under Henri Matisse who, 

however, proved to be a 

rather disappointing 

teacher whose most constructive 

criticism of his 

student’s work seems to 

have been an occasional 

“pas mal”. But painting 

was only one of the interests 

Nerman pursued. He 

also studied dance in 

Nyköping, and in 1919 

actually went to London, 

not as a painter but as a 

ballet dancer to perform 

at the London Coliseum. 

Yet after a short while he 

found that the work didn’t 

suit him and he returned to 

his native Sweden. Two 

years later, however, he 

was back in London, on 

Card from 

Swedish publisher Axel 

Eliassons, posted in Stockholm 

in 1923 


invitation of the great 

entertainer and “Keep the 

Home Fires Burning” composer 

Ivor Novello, who 

had met Nerman when he 

visited Stockholm in 1918 

to sing in a nightclub 

called Rolf’s Cabaret. He 

was impressed by the 

décor, which, it turned 

out, had been designed 

by Nerman, so he asked 

to be introduced to the 

artist with whom he 

quickly became friends. 

Novello persuaded him 

to try his 

O n e 

of the few British postcards, 

published by John 

Waddington in the 1920s, 

advertising the show ‘Tons 

of Money’ at The Pavilion in 

Torquay 

luck in London, so that in 

1921 Nerman once more 

travelled to England, intending 

to stay only for a few 

months, which then grew 

into ten whole years. He 

found work as a theatre caricaturist 

for The Tatler magazine 

for which he visited 

two plays a week and 

then sketched what he 

saw. The magazine’s editor, 

Edward Huskinson, 

is reported to 

have told him that he 

didn’t need a theatre 

critic because “one of 

your drawings says it 

all”, which I think is a 

fair assessment. Later, 

as an old man, he 

remembered these years 

spent in England as the 

happiest and most productive 

of his life. His caricatures 

of stage celebrities 

and famous persona of the 

1920s, which betray, more 

than any other, the influence 

of Aubrey Beardsley, 

are simply fantastic and 

really manage to bring the 

roaring twenties back to life, 

much better than mere 

words could do. Sadly, only 

a few of these clever and 

The 

young Nerman as a ballet 

dancer in 1917! 

witty caricatures appeared 

on postcards. The good 

news is that there is a 

book that contains many 

of Nerman’s black-andwhite 

drawings of the 

time (John Barrymore, 

the young Fred Astaire, 

Gladys Cooper, Eleonora 

Duse, Maurice Ravel, 

Igor Stravinsky, George 

Bernard Shaw and 

many more) together 

with earlier drawings 

(showing, among others, 

Sarah Bernhardt and Isadora 

Duncan), and later ones 

from the years he would 

spend in America (e.g. 

Charles Laughton, John 

Gielgud, Greta Garbo, 

Ingrid Bergman, Clark 

Gable, Alfred Hitchcock). 

The book is called Caught in 

the Act and was published 

in 1976 by Harrap, London. 

It is still quite easy to find 

The great stage actress 

Eleonora Duse (1858-1924), 

whom Nerman sketched in 

1914. Postcard published by 

Paul Heckscher 

continued.......

This is, I believe a 

portrait of the artist himself 

KC-Kort card 

Published by Nordisk Konst of Stockholm 

Cat design from Nordisk Konst 


THE SWEDISH ART 

DECO ARTIST EINAR 

NERMAN 


and usually doesn’t cost 

more than a few pounds in 

second-hand book stores. 

(Try eBay or abebooks.com, 

you won’t regret it). It also 

contains a brief but very 

informative foreword by 

Sandy Wilson (from which 

I’ve learned many of the 

Published by Axel Eliasson 

(above) New 

Year postcard 

(right) Miniature 

New 

Year card 

details of Nerman’s life). 

In 1930 Nerman again 

returned to Sweden with his 

wife and three children and 

might have stayed there for 

good if not for the outbreak 

of World War II, which 

prompted him to leave his 

home country once again, 

this time for New York, 

where he spent the next ten 

years sketching the Hollywood 

greats for the New 

York Journal American. (A 

book with his drawings of 

film stars from that period 

appeared in 1946 under the 

apt title Caricature). The 

remaining years of his long 

life, from 1950 to 1983, he 

spent in Sweden, where 

today he, rather sadly, 

seems to be chiefly remembered 

for his design of the 

Solstickan matchbox, even 

though in 2005 Sweden 

honoured Greta Garbo on 

the 100th anniversary of 

her birth with a special 

stamp showing one of the 

caricatures that Nerman 

made of her. There are 

many reasons, however, 

for remembering Nerman. 

Beside creating 

thousands of caricatures 

of famous actors, film 

stars and artists, that are 

still as fresh as they were 

eighty years ago, Nerman 

illustrated several children’s 

books, among them 

Hans Christian Andersen’s 

fairy tales (The Swine 

Herd, and Thumbelina in 

the 1930s), the stories of 

Selma Lagerlöf (author of 

the wonderful Adventures 

of Nils Holgersson), an 

enchanting picture book 

Another 

Eliassonsp 

u b - 

lished 

postcard 

called Journey to Gingerbread 

Land (1942), the collection 

Fairy Tales from the 

North (1946), and a marvellously 

inventive book 

crammed with puzzles, riddles, 

songs and games for 

children, called Let’s Play 

(1946). He also wrote songs 

and composed music, most 

notably for his older brother, 

the socialist leader Ture 

Nerman’s (1886-1969) 

poems. 

Last, but not least, of 

course, he designed a vast 

number of postcards, most 

of them in the Art Deco 

style, characterised by 

heavily stylised human figures 

and clearly demarcated 

bright colour fields. 

But although he had an 

unmistakable liking for 

geometrical forms and 

symmetries, his work 

never appears 

mechanical. In contrast 

to many other postcard 

artists who are 

classified as “Art 

Deco”, he didn’t care 

much for romantic and 

glamour subjects, and 

many of his designs 

have a wit and humour that 

gives them their particular 

charm and saves them 

from the artificiality and 

lifelessness to which other 

popular Art Deco artists 

too easily succumbed. 

They are, in short, truly 

and utterly enjoyable. 

Left: Classic Nerman 

design 

Nerman’s version of St George and the Dragon 


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Alan Leonard introduces postcards 

featuring the 

Ships of the Orient Line 

The ships of the Orient Line, which ran services 

between England and Australia for almost a century, 

are well-represented on photographic postcards, 

many of which were obligingly provided for onboard 

use by passengers, helping to promote the 

caring image of the company’s liners as offering 

comfort, speed and safety. 

While such cards date only from Edwardian 

times and the Orient Steam Navigation Company 

was itself established in 1878, its history can be 

traced back to the founding in 1797 of the London 

shipbroking firm of James Thompson & Company. 

This Oilette card numbered 

6229 in the extensive series issued by 

Raphael Tuck & Sons depicts the SS Omrah. Its caption 

identifies her as a twin-screw vessel, 490ft. long, 

“employed in the Mail Service between England and Australia” 

belonging to the early 1900s during the close 

involvement of the Pacific SN Co. The 8,130 ton Omrah, 

built by the Fairfield SB & E E Company of Glasgow, began 

her maiden voyage from London via the Suez Canal to 

Melbourne and Sydney on 3 February 1899. She continued 

making regular round voyages to Australia until requisitioned 

in August 1914 for use as a troopship. In this role, 

she was one of the first convoy bringing back to Orient 

Line management in February 1915 but taken over again 

for trooping duties from January 1917. She was sunk by 

torpedoes from a German submarine off Sardinia on 12 

May 1918 - fortunately with only one fatality, as she was 

returning from landing troops at Marseilles. 

Among the sailing ships it 

operated to many parts of the 

world was the three-masted 

1,000 ton barque Orient, built 

at Rotherhithe in 1853 with an 

eye to the Gold Rush traffic to 

Australia but in the event 

used as a Crimean War troop 

transport. 

The involvement of 

members of the Anderson 

family from Scotland brought 

changes of company name to 

Anderson, Thompson & Co. 

(1863) and Anderson, Anderson 

& Co. (1869). From 1866 

the Orient made regular voyages 

to and from Australia, 

leading to the company 

becoming familiarly known 

as the Orient Line. 

In 1874 it began chartering 

steamships, first from 

Frederick Green & Co., who 

ran services to India, and then 

in 1877 from the Pacific 

Steam Navigation Company. 

Following some reduction in 

its services from Liverpool to 

South America, the PSNC had 

several of its steamships laid 

off Birkenhead. 

The Anderson and 

Green companies chartered 

four of them and when their 

SS Otway 

was one of the five 12,000 ton liners 

brought into Orient Line service in 1909. Named after the 

Cape south west of Melbourne, this 12,077 ton steamer 

making 18 knots was steel-built by the Fairfield company at 

Glasgow. Providing accommodation for 280 first, 130 second 

and 900 third class passengers, served by a crew of 

350, she began her maiden voyage from London to Brisbane 

via Suez on 9 July 1909. The Otway is here depicted 

on the card numbered s.5377 in the W.H.Smith “Kingsway 

Real Photo Series.” Sent home from one of her early voyages, 

this example, which bears a penny red Edward VII 

stamp, with an indistinct Paquebot postmark, carried the 

en route message “Getting along fine, all going well - got 

thro 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 was 

back at Tilbury in November 1914, to be requisitioned and 

speedily converted into an armed merchant cruiser. Helping 

to enforce the blockade of German ports, she was 

involved in intercepting a score of vessels before being hit 

by a torpedo from the German submarine UC 49 north 

west of St. Kilda on 22 July 1917 while serving with the 

Northern Patrol. Ten men were killed in the initial explosion 

but the rest of the crew were able to get away in boats 

while the Otway was sinking. 

SS Orient 

voyages to Australia proved 

profitable, the partners exercised 

their option to purchase. 

In February 1878 they 

formed the Orient Steam 

Navigation Company (with an 

initial capital of precisely 

£44,642); the PSNC became a 

major subscriber, leasing 

another four of its steamships 

to extend the Orient Line service 

to Australia. 

The company then ordered 

its first purpose-designed 

steamship, the 5,386 ton Orient, 

built at John Elder’s yard 

in Glasgow. The previous 

bearer of that name was 

thereupon withdrawn, while 

the second Orient left London 

on her maiden voyage on 3 

November 1879, reaching 

Adelaide in 38 days. 

The next addition to the 

Another of the Orient Line’s 

1909 quintet was given the 

name of Osterley, from the 

Park and Robert Adam mansion 

in Middlesex, now a 

National Trust property. 

Subject of Kingsway RP card 

number s.5136, the 12,129 

ton twin-screw vessel was 

built at Glasgow by the London 

& Glasgow Iron Shipbuilding 

Co. Ltd. She made 

round trips to Australia 

from August 1909 until 

April 1917, when she was 

requisitioned to carry 

troops between Australia, 

Egypt and Britain and also across the 

Atlantic. Released from Government duties in 1919, the 

Osterley was refitted and resumed regular services to Australia. 

In the summer in 1922 she was chartered for summer 

cruises from New York to the Norwegian fjords and 

later ran further cruises in between scheduled voyages 

linking Tilbury and Brisbane. After 20 years intensive service, 

the Osterley was withdrawn in February 1929 and laid 

up, to be sold a year later for breaking up on the Clyde. 


In 1913 the Orient Line ordered a larger 

liner, of nearly 15,000 tons, intended to replace its ageing 

1891 Ophir. 

Construction of the SS Ormonde at the Clydebank 

yard of John Brown & Co. was suspended in August 1914, 

to give priority to war work, but resumed early in 1917 to 

speedily complete her as a troopship. From November 

1917 the Ormonde operated in dazzle-painted camouflage 

carrying troops - over 20,000 in all - between Australia, 

India, North Africa and France, before being refitted to 

begin regular passenger services to Australia in November 

1919. Converted from coal to oil burning in 1923 and 

adapted in 1933 as a single class ship for 700 Tourist passengers, 

the Ormonde was also popular running cruises to 

Scandinavia and the Mediterranean. 

In November 1939 she was again taken for war duties, 

to serve as a troopship, whose accommodation was 

increased 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 landings 

in North Africa and Italy. In 1944 she was based at 

Bombay for Far East trooping, then bringing home former 

prisoners of war and others released after the Japanese 

surrender. SS Ormonde is illustrated here from an “on 

board” card provided by the Orient Line, on the back of 

which is printed her 1945 schedule - “Rangoon 26th September; 

Colombo 2nd October; Suez 12th October; 

Southampton 22nd October.” 

In 1947 the Ormonde was refitted as an “austerity 

class” ship carrying around 1,000 emigrants to Australia 

on each of 17 round voyages, up to April 1952. Then withdrawn, 

the long-serving liner was sold later that year for 

breaking up. 

Orient fleet was an improved 

version from the same 

builder, of 5,524 tons, named 

Austral. She was “lit throughout 

by Swan’s incandescent 

lamps.” She served from 

1882, including a period as a 

troopship during the Boer 

War, before being withdrawn 

and sold for breaking up in 

Italy in 1903. 

The Orient, fitted with 

electric lighting in 1884 and 

modernised in 1898, also 

served as a troopship in 1900- 

02. On return from her final 

voyage to Australia in 1909, 

after a career involving nearly 

four million miles oceangoing, 

she was sold to Italian 

breakers in 1910 - for £12,000, 

whereas her original cost was 

exactly recorded as £148,344. 

Orient Line sailings to 

(right) SS Otranto, the second bearer of this name, subject 

of another “on board” card, joined the Orient Line fleet to 

make her maiden voyage to Australia in January 1926. 

Like her predecessor Orama she was built by Vickers- 

Armstrong at Barrow-in-Furness. The Otranto followed 

the usual pattern of round voyages to Australia and summer 

cruises and also began calling at Palma in 1933 to 

cater for holiday makers. She was converted to Tourist 

class in 1935, with capacity reduced to 522 passengers. 

The outbreak of war in 1939 found her at Sydney; there 

she was requisitioned as a troopship, bringing the first 

Australian contingent to Britain. After a series of further 

troopship voyages she was fitted out for assault landing 

troops in North Africa, Sicily and Italy. By the time the 

Otranto ended Government service in June 1948 she was 

reckoned to have steamed 335,655 miles and carried 

145,448 military personnel. After refitting at Birkenhead, 

the liner resumed service to Australia, until returning from 

her final voyage in February 1957. Her 31 year-career 

ended when she was sold later that year for breaking up at 

Faslane. 

Australia alternated between 

the Suez and Cape routes 

until mail contracts secured 

from 1883 onwards required 

34-day passages via Suez, so 

only occasional voyages were 

then made around South 

Africa. The Orient Line prospered, 

with more PSNC 

steamers placed under its 

management. These and all 

future Orient Line vessels 

serving Australia were given 

distinctive names beginning 

with the letter ‘O’. 

Their popularity and 

passenger enjoyment of 

their voyages were enhanced 

by provision of a detailed Orie 

n t 

Line Guide, giving wide-ranging 

advice and information, 

with accounts of places to be 

seen or visited en route and 

many illustrations, also photographs 

and plans of the 

ships themselves. This substantial 

volume of 360 pages 

went into its third 

revised and enlarged edition 

in 1889, selling for half a 

crown - 2s.6d., notionally 

12 1 /2p today. 

More Orient Line vessels 

of increasing size were 

ordered at intervals from the 

Fairfield company and another 

Glasgow shipbuilder, starting 

with the Ormuz (6,031 

tons, 1886-1912) and followed 

by the Ophir (6,831 tons, 

1891-1922); Omrah (8,130 

tons, 1899-1918) and Orontes 

(9,028 tons, 1902-26.) 

Built at Glasgow by 

Robert Napier & Sons, the 

Ophir is now remembered for 

having been chartered by the 

Admirality and fitted up to 

serve as the 

Named 

after a Scottish island, the 20,000 

ton Oronsay, shown here on an Orient Line “on board” 

card, was the second of five new liners brought into service 

in the 1920s. Built by John Brown & Co. on Clydebank, 

she began her maiden voyage to Australia on 7th February 

1925 and continued making round trips there, interspersed 

with summer cruises, until requisitioned as a troopship in 

April 1940. The Oronsay took part in the evacuations of 

British forces from Norway and France. Embarking troops 

at St. Nazaire on 17 June 1940, she was bombed and suffered 

damage including destruction of the chartroom. Captain 

Nicholls actually navigated her back to Plymouth 

using a French motoring map and a penny ruler - a feat 

recognised by award of the OBE. The Oronsay continued 

to undertake trooping duties until October 1942. Returning 

from taking Free French forces to Madagascar, she was 

torpedoed some 800 miles off the coast of Liberia. Five of 

her crew were drowned but the others were rescued. 

Royal Yacht on which the 

Duke and Duchess of Cornwall 

(future King George V 

and Queen Mary) made their 

eight months tour of the then 

British, Colombo and Singapore 

to Australia and New 

continued...... 


SHIPS OF THE 

ORIENT LINE 


early in 1919, she was then 

laid up on the Clyde until 

finally sent for scrapping 

“On board the RMS Orford” was the 

heading printed on this card, posted at Copenhagen, first 

port of call on one of her Scandinavian cruises, on 18 

August 1930. Its message to a lady in Derbyshire was succinct: 

“My darling Molly, This is the boat. At the moment 

Charlie, Urs and Mary are in bed, being seasick. Best love 

from Pelle.” Fourth in the Orient Line’s postwar building 

programme, the 19,941 ton Orford, named after a headland 

in Suffolk, was another product of the Vickers-Armstrong 

yard at Barrow-in-Furness. She had first cruised to 

Norway and the Mediterranean in the summer of 1928 

before leaving Tilbury on 13 October 1928 for her maiden 

voyage to Australia. After 11 years of these regular trips, 

the Orford was requisitioned as a troopship. On 1 June 

1940, involved with operations off Marseilles, she was 

attacked by German bombers and set on fire; 14 of her 

crew were killed. Tugs moved the stricken liner to ground 

in a small cove, where she became the first Orient Line victim 

of World War II. In 1947 the hulk was refloated and 

towed to Savona, Italy, for breaking up. 

Zealand, returning by way of 

Africa and Canada. An attractive 

first-hand account of this 

extensive tour, handwritten 

and delightfully illustrated by 

a talented member of the 

crew, Petty Officer Harry 

Price, was published in facsimile 

in 1980. 

The Ophir resumed 

scheduled round voyages to 

Australia and some summer 

cruising until taken over 

again by the Admiralty, to 

serve as an armed merchant 

cruiser from March 1915 until 

the end of the war. Paid off 

at Troon in 1922. 

At various times during 

the Boer War years (1899- 

1903) the Orient and Austral 

served as troopships, as likewise 

did the associate PSNC 

ships Oratava and Ortona. 

As the PSNC became 

more closely involved with 

the Orient Line, the Australian 

service was styled the Orient- 

Pacific Line. This marketing 

name was changed to the Orient-Royal 

Mail Line early in 

1906, when the Royal Mail 

Steam Packet Company 

acquired the PSN Company, 

right) Shown here on a company card with the printed 

address “On board the Orient Line RMS Orion”, this 

23,371 ton liner was launched at the Vickers-Armstrong 

yard, Barrow-in-Furness, on 7 December 1934, initiated by 

a wireless message from Brisbane by the Duke of Gloucester, 

Governor-General of Australia. Noteworthy for her 

innovative design, with single funnel and mast, the Orion 

offered superior facilities and accommodation extending 

over eight decks, for 486 first and 653 third class passengers, 

served by a crew of 466. After a shake-down cruise 

to the Mediterranean in August 1935, she began her 

maiden voyage to Australia on 28 September. These 

round trips, along with some summer cruises, continued 

until August 1939, when she was requisitioned - before 

the outbreak of war - to carry 2,500 Australian troops and 

38 nurses to Egypt. The Orion was fitted up as a regular 

troopship early in 1940, eventually steaming a total of 

380,000 miles and carrying 175,000 service personnel, 

before release from Government duty in April 1946. After 

being reconditioned by her builders, she resumed voyages 

to Australia in 1947; in 1954 she was placed on the trans- 

Pacific service linking Sydney, Auckland, Vancouver and 

San Francisco. Withdrawn in 1963, the Orion was briefly 

used as a hotel ship at Hamburg before being broken up in 

Belgium. 


(below) This Orient Line “On Board” card offers a view of 

the SS Orontes in a Norwegian fjord. Reviving the name of 

the 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, to 

begin her maiden voyage to Australia on 29 October that 

year. Her scheduled round trips, diversified into summer 

cruises and a one-off 6 week tour of the Caribbean in 1933, 

were maintained until the Orontes was taken in April 1940 

for duty as a troopship - with nominal accommodation for 

3,226 men, many in hammocks. Usually carrying rather 

fewer, the Orontes made numerous trooping voyages, 

including landings in North Africa and Sicily. On one occasion 

in 1943 the latter included 4,000 men getting ashore 

by her landing barges within two hours. The Orontes later 

carried many troops in the Far East. From September 1939 

until August 1945 she is credited with carrying 139,167 personnel 

and steaming 371,409 miles on these duties. The 

Orontes, released by Government in April 1947, was reconditioned 

as a one-class ship and resumed services to Australia, 

continuing until 1962, when she was sold for 

breaking up at Valencia, Spain. 

including its Australian interests 

and the four ships then 

operating under Orient Line 

management - Oroya, Orotava, 

Oruba and Ortona. 

1909 Quintet 

In 1907 the Royal Mail gave 

notice of its intention to withdraw 

them in 1909 to operate 

on its own account. The 

board of the Orient Line 

responded by financing the 

building of a whole new class 

of five well-designed 12,000- 

ton liners. 

These were duly delivered 

from Glasgow and 

Belfast shipyards in 1909, to 

make their maiden voyages 

from London to Australia 

between June and November 

that year. The first, named 

Orsova, was to continue 

steaming for the Orient Line 

until 1936. She was followed 

by sister ships named Otway 

(torpedoed in 1917); Osterley 

(1909-30); Otranto (wrecked 

in 1918) and Orvieto (1909- 

30). These last two liners 

were built by the Workman, 

Clark company at Belfast. 

Another new liner, from 

the John Brown yard on 

Clydebank, was added to the 

Orient Line fleet in 1911. She 

was the 12,927-ton Orama, 

which replaced the 25 years 

old Ormuz. 

The SS Orama had only 

a short career. Converted into 

an armed merchant cruiser 

on the outbreak of war in 

August 1914, she served until 

torpedoed by the German 

submarine U-62 on 19 October 

1917 while helping to 

escort a convoy south of Ireland.

The first of our four postwar 

ships built to the orders of the Orient Line by Vickers- 

Armstrong was the 28,472 ton Orcades of 1948, given the 

classical Latin name of the Orkney Islands. She was in fact 

the third bearer of this name, which had earlier been 

bestowed on the surrendered German ships Prinz Ludwig 

for her service with the Orient Line in 1921-25. It was then 

revived for the 1937 sister ship of the Orion. This second 

Orcades had made only five round voyages to Australia 

before being taken over in 1939 as a troopship, which was 

sunk by torpedoes from a German submarine off the Cape 

of Good Hope in October 1942. Her successor started her 

maiden voyage to Australia on 14 December 1948, making 

up to 24 knots with a passage time of 28 days, six shorter 

than the usual prewar schedule. From 1958 the Orcades 

served the Australia TransPacific route. In 1962 she was 

transferred to P&O ownership, refitted in 1964 as a oneclass 

tourist vessel for 1,635 passengers, mostly engaged 

in cruising until sold off in 1973 for breaking up in Taiwan. 

She is depicted here on an Orient Line “on board” postcard 

of the 1950s. 

World War I 

During the 1914-18 war all 

available Orient Line vessels 

were taken for Government 

duties as armed merchant 

cruisers or troopships, serving 

in many areas. Four of 

them were lost, in total 45,200 

tons, representing half the 

Orient fleet. 

The first war casualty 

was the Otway. As an armed 

merchant cruiser with the 

Northern Patrol she was torpedoed 

and sunk on 22 July 

1917, when ten of her crew 

were killed. The Omrah spent 

most of the war as a troopship 

until 12 May 1918, when 

she was torpedoed off Sardinia. 

She was then returning 

from landing troops at Marseilles 

and only one fatality 

resulted from her sinking. 

Far greater casualties 

resulted from the wreck of the 

Otranto in October 1918, only 

a few weeks before the end of 

the war, throughout which 

this liner had served as an 

armed merchant cruiser and 

troop transport. In a convoy 

from New York heading for 

Liverpool she came into collision 

with the SS Kashmir and 

ran aground on the Isle of 

Islay, where she broke in two. 

Over 400 lives were lost in 

this tragic accident. 

In the event, the four former 

PSNC ships acquired by 

Royal Mail in 1906 continued 

operating under Orient Line 

management but the Oroya 

was sent to the breakers in 

1909 and the Ortava was 

scrapped in 1919 after serving 

as an armed merchant 

cruiser. The Ortona, as a 

troopship, was torpedoed in 

the Mediterranean in 1917, 

while the Oruba had earlier 

been made into a breakwater 

off Greece. 

With its own remaining 

liners only released from 

Government duties at intervals 

during 1919, the Orient 

Line faced a difficult postwar 

situation. This was eased 

when 51% of its shares were 

acquired by the larger P & O 

Company, with which it had 

developed co-operation 

through joint mail contracts. 

The Orient Line still maintained 

its own separate identity. 

Between the Wars 

Immediate needs for replacement 

of wartime losses were 

partly met in 1919-21 by purchase 

from the Shipping Controller 

of three former Nord- 

Deutscher Lloyd liners surrendered 

to Britain as war 

reparations. These were refitted 

and named Omar, 

Orcades and Ormuz (II), to 

serve for a few years while a 

whole new class of five 

20,000-ton liners was being 

built. 

First to be delivered was 

the Orama, built by Vickers- 

Armstrong at Barrow-in-Furness. 

Replacing the ex-German 

Omar, which was sold 

off, she began her maiden 

London-Brisbane voyage on 

15 November 1924. 

She was followed in 

1925-6 by the Oronsay and 

the second bearer of the 

name Otranto, then in 1928 

by the Orford and then second 

Orontes in 1929. 

Withdrawal of the other 

two ex-German liners and 

older Orient Line vessels was 

facilitated by these additions 

to the fleet, which was further 

enhanced in the next decade 

by the delivery in 1935 of the 

23,371 ton Orion and her sister 

ship Orcades (II) in 1937, 

both from the Vickers-Armstrong 

yard. 

These two single-funnel 

liners were trend-setters, 

architect-designed and innovative 

in their increased provision 

of public rooms and 

facilities. They initially 

accommodated about 480 

first and 650 tourist class passengers. 

World War II 

The Orion continued in service 

until 1963 but the 

Orcades was torpedoed by a 

German submarine in 1942. 

In 1939 the Orient Line had a 

fleet of eight modern ships 

and had recently extended its 

service to include New 

Zealand. Within a few weeks 

of the outbreak of war in September 

1939 all its liners were 

taken over for Government 

duties, mainly as troopships - 

the Ormonde for the second 

time in her long career. 

The first Orient Line 

casualty of World War II was 

the Orford, bombed in June 

1940 in the Mediterranean. A 

few days later, on 8 June, the 

Orama was sunk off Norway 

by German battleships; 19 of 

her crew were killed and 280 

taken prisoner but she had no 

troops on board at the time of 

sinking. 

Two more Orient Line 

vessels were lost to enemy 

action within two days of 

each other early in October 

1942. The Oronsay was torpedoed 

off the coast of West 

Africa, while the Orcades fell 

victim to the U-172 some 300 

miles from the Cape of Good 

Hope. She had about 1,000 on 

board; 48 of them were killed 

but the others were rescued 

by the Polish steamer Narwick. 

In all, the wartime losses 

of the Orient Line left it with 

only 78,476 tons of its 1939 

total fleet tonnage of 161,858. 

During and after the war, 

the Orient Line managed several 

Dutch liners, two of 

which were lost to enemy 

action, and others such as the 

Empire Orwell, formerly the 

Pretoria, fitted out as a troopcontinued...... 

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ORIENT LINE 


ship after surrender in May 

1945, until 1975. 

Later Years 

The Orient Line resumed services 

to Australia on its own 

account early in 1947, 

strengthened by delivery 

from Vickers-Armstrong of its 

first postwar vessel, the third 

to be given the name 

Orcades. Starting her 

Auckland-Vancouver-San 

Francisco. 

The introduction of the 

Oriana was linked to the 

transfer of the Orient Line terminal 

base from Tilbury to 

Southampton. Much-admired 

for her style, elegance and 

contemporary design, she 

In addition to cards featuring its liners, the Orient Line also 

provided passengers on some of them with sepia photographic 

cards showing aspects of their facilities, such as 

this one captioned “S.S. Oronsay 1st Class Tavern.” 

Acknowledgements 

The two main sources of 

information about the Orient 

Line and its ships, to which 

the writer is indebted, are: 

Duncan Haws: Merchant 

Fleets in Profile, Volume 1 

(P.Stephens 1978) and 

Neil McCart: Passenger ships 

of the Orient Line (P.Stephens 

1987) 

Shown here on a postcard 

“printed and published by J. Salmon Ltd., Sevenoaks, 

Eng.”, the SS Oriana was the last, largest and most elegant 

of the Orient Line fleet. This 41,910 ton liner was launched 

by Princess Alexandra on 3 November 1959 at the Vickers- 

Armstrong yard, whence she was delivered to make her 

maiden voyage in November 1960 - actually to Lisbon 

before starting her first trip to Australia on 3 December. 

With a service speed of 27.5 knots, she reached Sydney in 

27 days. From 1960 the Orient Line made Southampton its 

terminal port, particularly for cruising, as air travel superseded 

long distance ocean passages. The Oriana became 

essentially a cruise liner. On one notable voyage in 1971 

she sailed round the world in 66 days, calling at 19 ports. 

With single-class accommodation for 1,700 passengers 

after a 1973 re-fit, the Oriana ran cruises mostly from Sydney. 

From 1965 the liner passed completely into P&O registry, 

thus ending the identity of the Orient Line. In 1986 

she was withdrawn, to be sold to Japan and then China, 

through various ownerships and uses, before being 

scrapped in 2005. 

maiden voyage to Australia in 

December 1948, this 28,472- 

ton liner had a speed of 24 

knots, taking 28 days to Australia, 

compared with the 

usual pre-war time of 34 

days. 

Further deliveries to the 

Orient Line fleet from Barrowin-Furness 

were the second 

bearers of the names Oronsay 

(28,136 tons, 1961) and 

Orsova (29,091 tons, 1954). 

These enabled the Orient 

Line to inaugurate in 1954 

a trans-Pacific service on the 

route Sydney-Auckland- 

Suva-Honolulu-Victoria-San 

Francisco. This was later 

increased by addition of P & 

O vessels and styled the Orient 

& Pacific Line. 

The company’s last and 

largest liner, the 41,910 ton 

Oriana, was completed by 

Vickers-Armstrong in 1960, to 

make her maiden voyage in 

December to Australia and 

then on the service Sydney- 

originally accommodated 

nearly 2,000 passengers, 

reduced to 1,700 in 1973 

when she became a one-class 

cruise liner. 

In this role, latterly 

based at Sydney, the Oriana 

continued in service until 

sold off in 1986, to pass 

through various ownerships 

in Japan and China before 

eventually being scrapped in 

2005. 

Meanwhile, the Orient 

Line itself had passed into 

history. The company styled 

P&O-Orient (Passenger Services) 

Ltd. was formed in 

1960 to operate the ships of 

both companies and in 1965 

P&O bought up the remaining 

49% shareholding in the 

Orient Line, which thus 

became its wholly-owned 

subsidiary. 

In 1966 the name P&O- 

Orient Line was dropped and 

the four remaining liners - 

Orcades, Oronsay, Orsova 

and Oriana - were incorporated 

into the general P&O fleet. 

The Orient Line thus lost 

its separate historic identity 

but postcards help to recall its 

heyday and the ships that formerly 

ran its services. 


Another series of cards, headed “On board the Orient 

Liner.....”, not naming any specific vessel, offered cruise 

passengers 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 from 

negatives kindly lent by the Hellenic Society, 50 Bedford 

Square, W.C.” 

PPM on Tour 

Graeme Harris of St. Helier, Jersey, relaxes at the 

semi-finals of the 20/20 cricket at St. Lucia in May 

2010, when England won through to the competition’s 

final.

Winchester, Basingstoke, Shrewsbury, Salisbury, LLanelli, 

Pontypridd, Worthing, Uckfield, Rugby, Ramsgate, 

Canterbury, Crewe, Folkestone, Dover.

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Russian railways 

I was interested to read David 

Rye’s article ‘Around Europe by 

Postcards’ (June PPM). The 

Russian postmark inscribed with 

the name of Tsarskoe Selo, St 

Petersburg Province, was in use 

from c. 1904 to 1918, and so the 

‘Oilette’ card would have been 

posted on 5 July 1910, though as 

Russia was still using the Julian 

calendar at that time, the date 

would have been 18 July using 

our Gregorian calendar. 

It does seem that Tuck’s 

Oilette cards were sold in Russia 

in the early 1900s. I have seen 

several such cards posted from 

Russia, and in my collection 

there is a set of six Oilettes in the 

“Wide-Wide-World” series entitled 

“Siberia” (sample scans 

attached). Although these were 

clearly sold mainly in the West, I 

have seen at least one with a 

Russian postmark. 

Whilst I don’t like to spoil a 

good story, especially one that 

has been doing the rounds in various 

forms for well over a century, 

I noticed that David Rye 

wrote that the Russian word 

‘vokzal’ (meaning a large railway 

station) owes its origin to a 

prefabricated form of Vauxhall 

station, London, being shipped to 

Russia for the Tsar to inspect. 

I’m afraid this is a myth. The 

Russian word ‘vokzal’ originally 

meant a pleasure garden, and 

while it does indeed stem from 

the word ‘Vauxhall’, this referred 

Not surprised 

When I read your comments 

about the LL card of 

Bournemouth Pier and your 

opinion that the legendary phrase 

Wish you were here “actually 

doesn’t appear in many messages”, 

I wasn’t really surprised. 

People like to make a postcard 

personal, writing words of special 

relevance to the recipient. 

What’s more, the phrase doesn’t 

take up that much room, and my 

experience of postcard collecting 

(going back almost 40 years) is 

that individuals wish to fill the 

entire space available for a message. 

Tim Mickleburgh 

Grimsby 

to the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens 

(a resort for wealthy Londoners 

in the 18th century), not the 1840 

Vauxhall railway station. Russia’s 

first railway ran from St 

Petersburg via Tsarskoe Selo to 

the resort of Pavlovsk, which 

was popular with well-to-do 

Russians. A concert hall and 

entertainment pavilion was built 

at the terminus, and the word 

“vokzal”, originally referring to 

this pavilion, eventually was 

used for the whole station complex. 

Later the usage of the word 

spread to other large railway stations 

in Russia. For further 

details, see the “Wikipedia” article 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ 

Vauxhall. 

If proof were needed of the prerailway 

age use of the word 

‘vokzal’ in Russia, it can be 

found in a poem by Alexander 

Pushkin that was written in 1813, 

and its first usage in Russian literature 

can be traced to 1777. 

Philip Robinson 

Scunthorpe 

(author of books on Imperial 

Russian postmarks) 

Below: the 

Tuck trademarks 

and 

two of their 

Russian 

Oilette postcards. 

Sorry, Luise 

Angela Davis includes in her 

article Scandal in Saxony (June 

PPM) a postcard featuring a public 

lament for former Crown 

Prince Luise. She asks for a 

translation - here it is. 

The Public Lament 

Luise, formerly Crown Princess 

of Saxony 

Ah, would you know how loved 

you are 

By the whole Saxony people 

You would not have left us 

We'd hoped that you would 

return 

And cursed your bad spirit 

Our hope is shattered 

The wish of the country, green 

and white! 

O, you are our own, 

The devil, deceitful and cunning! 

A devoted public, who love you 

They have paid dearly. 

Now you are nearly estranged 

Nevermore come back 

Reconciled now, we regret 

Your sad fate. 

When still passed you by 

The bitter chalice of the Lord 

Because you have been absent 

You were away from the sick 

child 

Taught us much repentence 

And a thousand hearts pray: Lord 

Help conquer, guide to the goal! 

Mark Bailey 

Winchester 

Upside down! 

Has anyone else noticed the 

mistake on the design of the 

Raphael Tuck-published postcard 

featured on the front 

cover of the current Picture 

Postcard Annual? When the 

umbrella was waved in the air, 

the wording would be upside 

down! 

Eric Jacobs 

Sawston, Cambridge 

[Ed. - but then it could be 

seen by people looking out of 

upstairs windows?] 

Englishman in 

Hamburg named! 

I was fascinated to read Michael 

Hauskeller’s article “Fond Love 

from Daddy - an Englishman in 

Hamburg” in the May PPM. 

After a little research using family 

history websites I have identified 

the sender of the postcards. 

He was George J. Borley, who is 

shown in the 1901 census return 

as a 44 year-old ‘tailor, employer’ 

resident at 127 Broomwood 

Road, Wandsworth (this being 

one of the addresses to which the 

postcards were sent). He lived 

with his wife Mary E. Borley, 42, 

and two children George C.H. 

Borley, 9, and Mary G. Borley, 7. 

The family also had a domestic 

servant. 

George John Borley had 

been born at Hampstead in 1856, 

the son of George W. Borley, 

who is described in the 1861 census 

as a “commercial clerk, 

clothing”. He married the 

Dublin-born Mary Elizabeth 

Wilson in Wandsworth in 1889. 

Their children George Colby 

Hewken Borley and Mary 

Gertrude Borley were born in 

1891 and 1893 respectively. 

George may well have had 

clothing business interests in 

Hamburg, and they may have 

continued to keep him away 

from home, as he does not appear 

in the 1911 census return (the latest 

available). His wife Mary is 

shown there, living at 32 

Baskerville Road (the other 

address to which the postcards 

were sent) with her two children 

and a servant. George died in 

1938, aged 82, his wife having 

predeceased him in 1925. 

Philip E Robinson FRPSL, 

Scunthorpe 

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Just the ticket! 

The June edition of PPM could 

have been designed for me. Not 

only are there the regular features 

and ‘one-off’ articles to 

arouse the curiosity but, as a 

ship-wreck card collector, I am 

spoilt with two articles on my 

favourite subject. 

In John Marks’ article on 

the wreck of HMS Montagu, in 

considering the number of postcards 

he observes “there may, 

however, be more” than the 14 he 

lists. There certainly are! I have 

32 different cards in my own collection 

and I was once offered a 

collection of ‘over 200 cards of 

the Montagu by a dealer but 

declined the 

Pick of the Postbag 

offer as I felt I had 

enough representative cards of 

the wreck. I did obtain a book 

called “The Loss of HMS Montagu, 

Lundy 1906” by G.M. 

Davis and published by him in 

1981. I was attracted to the book 

by a review which said it was 

illustrated with postcards of the 

wreck. Whilst the book is only 

59 pages it does have 50 illustrations, 

32 of which are postcards 

of the wreck and two are postcards 

of HMS Duncan, a sister 

ship which grounded herself 

whilst trying to assist Montagu. 

I was delighted with Bob 

Appleton’s article on the loss of 

the Targis. The pictures looked 

familiar so I immediately went to 

my T.B.I. (to be identified) shipwreck 

box and, sure enough, 

there were the four cards, two as 

illustrated, one of the three 

lifeboats as described and another 

which would seem to be the 

one Bob saw on eBay. To remove 

one from my T.B.I. box is 

encouraging; to remove four at 

once is exceptional! 

Now to the one where my 

research can give some more 

interesting information. Another 

of my interests is the depiction of 

murders on postcards and I 

instantly recognised the card at 

the top of page 15 as one I 

already have. Mine also has the 

same scant information provided 

by the sender concerning the discovery 

of a body. It was discovered 

by a group of schoolboys 

out for a walk with their teacher 

on 20th February 1908 and was 

that of Miss Emma Sherriff, a 

lady of 36 years of age who had 

been missing from her lodgings 

in Boscombe since the 18th. The 

accused man referred to was one 

Frank McGuire, with whom 

Emma had formed a romantic 

attachment unknown to his 

mother, who was a close friend 

of Emma. Frank was in the Army 

but then both his mother and 

Emma lost all contact with him 

for about eighteen months. He 

had apparently deserted and was 

acting as a sales agent for art 

works under an assumed name. 

He got into financial difficulties 

and contacted Emma unexpect- 

edly in January 1908 asking if he 

could come to stay. Emma made 

arrangements for him to stay at 

her lodgings and informed his 

mother. Whilst staying there 

there is evidence that he took 

cash and jewellery from Emma 

which she found after he had left. 

She tackled him about it and he 

promised to return it but there 

followed a few days where he 

travelled to and from London not 

telling anyone the correct details 

of his whereabouts. When 

Emma’s body was found she had 

apaprently been beaten to death 

and died from internal bleeding. 

Frank was arrested in London 

and tried at Winchester Assizes. 

The jury could not agree on a 

verdict and the then Attorney 

General later decided not to proceed 

with a retrial on the basis of 

undeclared new evidence. 

The whole story of the case 

is covered in a chapter in Nicola 

Sly’s book “Dorset Murders” 

and it remains an unsolved case. 

Alan Savory 

Bournemouth 

Semaphore captioned 

PPCs, post 1914 

I was very interested in Allan 

Hughes’ letter showing that the 

semaphore writer continued to 

write picture postcard captions 

after 1914. My June 1996 PPM 

article showed that 

Bender/PP&P Co printed the 

semaphore captioned cards up 

to 1914. I noted there that both 

Bender and PP & P Co. disappeared 

after 1914. 

Since writing the 1996 

article, the 1901 and 1911 Censuses 

have been published and 

show that Joseph and Nicholas 

Bender were German nationals, 

living in England. This would 

account for the Bender company 

“The Photo Printing & Publishing 

Co” disappearing suddenly 

after 1914. The whole of 

the Bender business interests 

would have been confiscated 

by the Custodian of Enemy 

Property and would have been 

offered/sold to a British national. 

This could have happened 

immediately in August 1914. 

(It seems that at that time keeping 

the business going was the 

main concern). 

Allan Hughes’ letter shows 

that somebody did buy the 

Bender/ PP & P Co. business 

and other Bender interests and 

continued to employ the Semaphore 

caption writer. I do not 

know whether we will ever find 

out who bought the Bender 

interests in 1914, as the rich 

source of material from The 

British Journal of Photography 

seems to dry up on this front. It 

is now clear that there were two 

parts to the Bender story, pre 

and post 1914 

George Webber 

St. Peter Port 

Going football crazy 

I recently obtained six comic football postcards by an unknown (to 

me) 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 pictorial 

publisher's emblem or other information, apart from the wording 

M. WANE & Co. EDINBRO' in the bottom lefthand corner of the 

back of the postcard. None are postally used but, I imagine, these 

were produced sometime in the early 1900s. I have searched through 

the UK PUBLISHERS INDEX and ARTISTS' INDEX of your 

invaluable 2010 PICTURE POSTCARD ANNUAL, but can't find 

any reference to the publisher or artist of my six coloured comic 

football postcards - see scan of one of these attached. Maybe a PPM 

reader can throw some light on who the artist 'D.B.M.' is and/or the 

printer/publisher M.WANE, EDINBRO' ? 

Bryan Horsnell 

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PPM on Tour 

Melvyn Brooks from 

Karkur, Israel, took to 

the skies with PPM 

recently over the 

Jezreel Valley, near 

Mount Tabor. While 

in flight, Melvyn was 

obviously reading the 

piece in last month’s 

PPM featuring the 

balloon postcards at 

auction! 

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Andrew Swift on 

A classic coaching inn 

and its postcards 

Nowhere is the spirit of the isolated coaching inn 

more potent than at “The Crown” at Everleigh, on 

the northern flank of Salisbury Plain. It was built in 

the early eighteenth century as a dower house for 

the Astley family, and was connected to the manor 

house by a tunnel which is now blocked part way 

along. In 1780, a new road from Bath to London via 

Everleigh and Andover – “with fewer hills and quicker 

than any other road” – was advertised as being 

“complete”. 

A 1920s postcard 

view of the Crown when it was owned by 

Wadworth’s of Devizes. 

Three years later, on 18 

December 1783, the Bath 

Chronicle carried an advertisement 

for a post-coach 

from Bath to London, via 

Devizes, Everleigh, 

Andover, Basingstoke, 

Staines and Hounslow. The 

journey took two days and 

cost one pound six shillings 

for an inside seat, and fifteen 

shillings for a place on 

top. Initially, coaches called 

at the New Inn (long since 

closed), but before long the 

need for a more commodious 

establishment saw the 

old dower house opened as 

the Crown. The first reference 

to it as an inn comes in 

the form of a news item in 

the Salisbury & Winchester 

Journal for 9 January 1792: 

‘Last Tuesday night three 

men met at the Crown Inn, 

Everley (sic), and for a tri- 

barn behind the inn. 

fling wager, ate 60 red herrings, 

with three half-gallon 

loaves, and drank six gallons 

of beer.’ 

There were 300 acres 

of land attached to the 

A postcard view of the garden at the side of the inn praised 

by Cobbett, and where Van Morrison failed to perform. 


An early postcard 

view of a coach and four drawn up outside 

the entrance to the Crown at Everleigh. 

A car drawn up outside the Crown at around the time the 

comic postcard characters were painted on the wall of a 

Crown and early tenants 

were farmers as well as 

innkeepers. That inveterate 

traveller William Cobbett 

stayed there in August 1826 

and left this description of 

it: “This inn is one of the 

nicest, and, in summer, one 

of the pleasantest, in England; 

for I think that my 

experience in this way will 

justify me in speaking thus 

positively. The house is 

large, the yard and the stables 

good, the landlord a 

farmer also, and, therefore, 

no cribbing your horses in 

hay or straw and yourself in 

eggs and cream. The garden, 

which adjoins the 

south side of the house, is 

large, of good shape, has a 

terrace on one side, lies on 

the slope, consists of welldisposed 

clumps of shrubs 

and flowers, and of short 

grass very neatly kept. In 

the lower part of the garden 

there are high trees, and, 

amongst these, the tuliptree 

and the live-oak. 

Beyond the garden is a 

large clump of lofty 

sycamores, and in these a 

most populous rookery, in 

which, of all things in the 

world, I delight. The village, 

which contains 301 souls, 

lies to the north of the inn, 

but adjoining its premises. 

All the rest, in every direction, 

is bare down or open 

arable. I am now sitting at 

one of the southern windows 

of this inn, looking 

across the garden towards 

the rookery. It is nearly sunsetting; 

the rooks are skimming 

and curving over the 

tops of the trees; while 

under the branches I see a 

flock of several hundred 

sheep coming nibbling their 

way in from the down and 

going to their fold”. 

It was not only the 

social but also the administrative 

centre for the area. 

Kelly’s Wiltshire Directory 

for 1895 noted that “the 

bench sits at the Crown 

Hotel, Everleigh, on the last 

Friday... in each month”. 

Towards the end of the 

nineteenth century the stables 

attached to the inn 

achieved fame by training a 

Grand National winner. 

Nothing in the early 

history of the Crown, however 

– not even the ingestion 

of 60 red herrings – is 

as extraordinary as its 

recent history. In 2002, the 

landlord, Gary Marlow, 

booked Van Morrison to 

play in front of 1,500 people 

in the garden of the inn. 

When the singer cancelled 

the gig a few weeks before 

it was to take place, Mr Marlow 

took him to court. 

Although he won £40,000 in 

damages, he subsequently 

announced that the inn was 

closing, and in 2004 was 

granted permission to convert 

it to housing. It seemed 

like the final chapter in the 

history of the Crown. But 

that was before Zimbabwean-born 

entrepreneur 

Cyril Weinman bought the 

building in 2005 to re-open 

it as an inn, with a commitment 

to making it a focus 

for the local community. As 

the Crown’s website says, it 

has now been “restyled into 

a new Rhodesian-based 

hotel and village pub, yet 

still keeping the traditional 

English heritage and history”. 

A new chapter in the 

history of this venerable old 

inn is being written – and 

the inn has been saved! 

Cobbett would no doubt 

have been highly delighted.

... and wall paintings by 

Donald McGill? 

There’s yet another side 

to the “The Crown”, 

though. I’ll be the first to 

admit that, when it 

comes to comic postcards, 

I’m no expert. 

But when I found 

myself one Saturday 

afternoon at the Everleigh 

inn, and the landlady 

mentioned that 

there were some paintings 

in an old barn at 

the back that just might 

be by Donald McGill, my 

interest was, as you can 

imagine, aroused. 

Having run the 

gauntlet of assorted 

large (and friendly) dogs, 

unlocked the barn and 

cleared various items out 

of the way, I was confronted 

with six life-style 

figures painted on a brick 

wall along one side of 

the barn. It was obvious 

why someone had said 

they might be by McGill. 

They almost certainly 

d a t e d 

from the 1920s and, 

although time had not 

been kind to them, the 

colours were still vibrant. 

parasol, a fat lady in a 

swimsuit and another fat 

lady in a swimsuit holding 

hands with a skinny 

man. Although they all 

looked vaguely familiar, 

as to whether or not I had 

stumbled upon a lost 

cache of original McGills 

I felt unqualified to say – 

although I knew how I 

could find out. 

So it’s over to you, 

the readers of PPM – 

among whom are doubtless 

scores of comic 

postcard experts – to 

enlighten me, and the 

owners of the inn, as to 

the provenance of this 

splendidly unexpected 

art collection – and also, 

perhaps, to suggest how 

they can be preserved for 

the future. 

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Moreover, they were 

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Now don’t worry: it’s not my intention to start every article 

with something new in the Doctor Who world, but as I 

managed it last month I thought a double would be fun. 

Unfortunately, it was something whose issue I actually 

missed out on because I was out of the country, so I had to 

hunt them down on eBay. I am talking about four postcards 

which came free with an issue of the children’s magazine 

‘Doctor Who Adventures’ (as I do not have the actual 

magazine itself I do not know for sure what number it 

came with but I have been told it might have been issue no. 

162 – can anyone confirm this for me? Or am I the only Dr 

Who postcard collector who reads PPM?) The four postcards 

feature the new doctor (played by Matt Smith) and 

his assistant Amy Pond (Karen Gillan). They each appear 

on an individual postcard and feature together on the 

third design. The fourth card simply depicts the Tardis. 

All the cards have the new logo across the bottom and are 

slightly larger than normal size. In their original format 

they came in a sheet connected by perforated edges. 

Already on eBay these are selling at more than £5 a set just 

for the cards (which is more than the magazine cost originally!). 

London 2010 

Every ten years a major stamp 

exhibition is held in London and 

I really enjoyed the last one held 

back in 2000 at Earls Court. This 

year (May 8-15th) the event was 

held at the ‘Business and Design 

Centre’ in Islington (venue for 

the twice-yearly STAMPEX 

event, although this was much 

bigger), titled ‘LONDON 2010 

INTERNATIONAL STAMP 

EXHIBITION’. Entry on the first 

day was £10 but all other days 

were free. I went on the first day 

and although a stamp event there 

was no lack of postcards available 

and I even picked up four 

old postcards of Westcliff-on-Sea 

near to where I live. 

Royal Mail attraction 

The first port of call for many 

seemed to be the Royal Mail 

stand where they were selling a 

number of exhibition items. You 

could also pick up all of this 

year’s PHQ Stamp Cards, including 

the cards for the special 

sheets issued for the exhibition, 

although these were actually 

released on 6th May, two days 

before the show started. Two 

stamp sheets were issued, and 

there are eight postcards. First up 

you have the ‘GEORGE V 

ACCESSION 6th MAY 1910’ 

stamp sheet which is beautiful (at 

the actual exhibition you could 

buy this sheet overprinted across 

the top for the exhibition ‘BUSI- 

NESS DESIGN CENTRE. 

LONDON 8 – 15 MAY 2010’. 

This version was only available 

at the show so cards used with 

this complete sheet will not be as 

common). This sheet contains 

Card Chat 

Mark Routh searches out 

the tasty and unusual in 

modern postcards. 

two new stamps, one a £1 value 

depicting two stamp heads for 

King George V stamps. The second 

stamp was a smashing 1st 

class value with the Queen’s 

head front and centre and King 

George V’s head behind. This 

stamp was also issued in individual 

sheets and as such cards can 

be found used with 


Isle of 

Man Post Office Stamp Card no. 66 

(6), the design taken from The Royal Philatelic Collection 

these stamps with a normal margin 

(it is worth seeking out 

copies used with top corner margin 

pairs as in the margin was 

printed ‘LONDON 2010 Festival 

of stamps: Accession of King 

George V’ – these will be worth a 

premium). The second stamp 

sheet had four stamps which 

each depicted a George V design. 

These were the two 1924 British 

Empire Exhibition stamps and 

two of the designs known as the 

seahorse stamps (a blue 10/- and 

a £1 green). I bought two sets of 

these cards as I found them ideal 

for collecting the various country 

cancels and cachets available on 

stands around the exhibition. In 

all I collected cancels for Germany 

(+ a blue cachet as well), 

Greenland, Norway, Monaco (on 

a special festival stamp), New 

Zealand (the cancel depicts a 

Kiwi bird), Hong Kong (my cancel 

was applied to a special festival 

show stamp sheet applied to 

the back of the card but they also 

placed a cancel on the front for 

me as well), Japan (a nice purple 

coloured cancel), the Faroe 

Islands, Canada (depicting a 

Grizzly bear), Finland, Australia 

(featuring a Koala), Guernsey, 

Jersey, Korea and Singapore 

(Singapore had a basic 

cachet and then a different cancel 

for each day of the exhibition 

and I managed to get a copy of 

each of the different day cancels 

over two cards). There was also a 

square cachet 

depicting an 

Royal Mail postcard 

from London 2010, showing postal delivery van on 

the banks of Loch Lomond in 1934 

albatross head for the ‘Polar 

Postal History Society of Great 

Britain’ (which includes the 

‘Falkland Islands Philatelic 

Study Group’ which is an area I 

am interested in) and a lovely 

blue cachet for the Olympic Collectors 

Club. These cachet cards 

are now my souvenirs of the 

show and make a nice collection 

which I enjoyed putting together. 

The Royal Mail also issued a set 

of transport-related photographic 

postcards which were available 

at the show and which each bore 

the show’s logo on the reverse. 

Depicted on the cards are the following 

pictures:- 

1) August 1911 – London to 

Windsor aerial post (early aeroplane) 

2) First World War – mail being 

unloaded from train before distribution 

to Army units 

3) Autumn 1934 – Morris Minor 

red van delivering mail on the route 

from Drymen to Rowardennan on the 

banks of Loch Lomond (in my opinion 

this was the best card in the set) 

4) 1919. The RAF airmail service 

from Hawkinge, Folkestone, to the 

British Army of the Rhine at Cologne 

(depicts an old De Havilland fighter) 

5) September 1911 – Hendon 

Aerodrome – people writing cards to 

be carried on aerial post to Windsor 

(the world’s first regular airmail service, 

which marked the coronation of 

King George V) 

6) Post Office (London) Railway 

– Driverless train in an underground 

tunnel of the electric narrow-gauge 

railway from Eastern District Office 

in Whitechapel through to Paddington 

Station (commenced 1926 – fully 

open by 1928) 

The country of Aland had 

issued a special stamp for the 

exhibition which depicted one of 

the towers on Tower Bridge. To 

coincide with this at the actual 

exhibition they sold a postcard 

which depicted the same picture 

but this time showing the entire 

Tower Bridge. This card had the 

stamp applied to the front in the 

top right corner and it was cancelled 

with a special show cancel 

(another one for my collection). 

This card was quite reasonable at 

just £2. 

The Polar Postal History 

Society of Great Britain had a 

small publicity stall and if you 

stopped and spoke with the people 

manning this they offered 

you a free postcard, or two if you 

were lucky. One of these features 

the statue of Sir Ernest Shackle- 

Another 

Royal Mail London 2010 card. Mail destined 

for troops at the Front in World War 1 

is unloaded at a railhead

ton outside The Royal Geographical 

Society, London. Information 

on the reverse informs you 

that Shackleton was appointed as 

an unpaid agent of the Post 

Polar Postal History Society 

card of the statue of Captain 

Robert Falcon Scott in 

Portsmouth 

Office for the Shackleton-Rowett 

Expedition of 1920-22 and was 

provided with a stock of stamps 

and a canceller by the Royal 

Mail. Also shown on the front of 

this card are two King George 10 

shilling ‘Seahorse’ stamps which 

are overprinted ‘Gough Island’ 

and cancelled with a proof strike 

of the special expedition cancel 

(this was a show special postcard 

produced especially for this exhibition). 

The second free postcard, 

and not so many of these 

were given out, depicts the statue 

of Captain Robert Falcon Scott 

RN, CVO, situated near the Victory 

Gate, in the Royal Naval 

Dockyard, Portsmouth. Of 

course if you asked nicely you 

could have the special cachet 

applied to these postcards (the 

one mentioned above), and if you 

were very, very lucky you could 

get two with the cachet and two 

without (just to be complete). 

During the course of the exhibition 

there were thousands upon 

thousands of stamps, postcards 

and other philatelic items on display 

in the large two-floored display 

area. You could also see one 

or two special items on some of 

the dealers’ stalls as well. 

Rare lunar souvenir 

On the ‘Buckingham Covers’ 

stand they had on display an 

actual envelope that was carried 

all the way to the moon on the 

Apollo 11 moon-landing space 

flight. This cover was also signed 

by Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin 

and Michael Collins who were 

the astronauts on this flight, and 

who carried this cover. Now I 

collect items related to the Apollo 

11 space flight but £25,000 

was a bit beyond my pocket 

(although the envelope sold on 

the first day – but was kept on 

display until the final day when 

the buyer was going to collect it). 

Although I could not afford the 

original I was pleased with a special 

postcard featuring this cover 

which Buckingham Covers had 

produced as a free item for people 

visiting their stall and showing 

interest in the cover. They 

were giving out 100 of these per 

day. Displayed alongside this 

cracking cover was a second 

cover which had been carried to 

the moon on Apollo 15 (one of 

400). This again had been 

signed by the three astronauts 

for this flight. Again this was 

an incredibly expensive item 

but again a free postcard was 

available depicting this cracking 

cover. 

George V theme 

In all I visited the show on 

three separate days and on 

each occasion I visited this 

stand and picked up my free 

cards. As can clearly be seen this 

whole exhibition had a King 

George V theme and many of the 

items mentioned above have a 

King George V connection. The 

Isle of Man Post Office had also 

Many unusual things are sent to 

me by readers and contacts but 

recently a postcard book 

popped through my letter box 

which was a complete delight. 

Titled ‘Glastonbury’s Original 

Miss Smith’ the 22 postcards 

depict paintings by Diana Milstein 

who kindly sent me this 

copy with which she enclosed a 

fascinating newspaper article 

about her work (a full colour 

double-page centre spread in a 

local newspaper). This article 

explains that both the book, 

which is published by the 

award winning eco-publisher 

Wooden Books (based in Glastonbury 

like the artist) and the 

postcards are printed with vegetable 

dyes on recycled paper. 

In her letter to me Diana 

explained that Miss Smith is “a 

character I devised who turns 

out to be a familiar archetype 

to many of the little old English 

ladies – she is rather quirky 

and has an eye for magic. She 

meets an angel and has magical 

adventures”. The paintings 

have a child-like quality which 

is really appealing and I loved 

the book and the whole concept 

of Miss Smith and her angel, 

and having visited Glastonbury 

myself I liked the local feel and 

use of the nearby well-known 

landmarks. If you would like to 

see some of these paintings, 

have a look at the website 

www.misssmithart.co.uk where 

many of the paintings in the 

book are shown alongside others 

from the series. The book 

retails at £9.99 but Diana has 

copies which she will kindly 

sell to readers for £6. If interested 

email her at diana.milstein@btinternet.com 

and ask 

for details - believe me the 

book is well worth seeking out 

and is a true delight. 

Miss Smith 

and the 

Glastonbury 

Angel 

- one of 22 

postcards 

in Diana 

Milstein’s 

book of 

detachable 

postcards 

adopted this theme for a 

stamp set which was on sale on 

their stall. There was also a set of 

postal stationery cards issued 

which each depict a separate 

stamp design on the front with 

the same design printed on the 

reverse as the actual postage. 

There are six cards in the set and 

each one carries a black and 

white photograph of King 

George V in full military uniform 

at some official event. There is 

also a stamp-related item in the 

bottom left corner which is taken 

from the Royal Philatelic Collection 

(for which George V was 

famous - he was a very keen and 

knowledgeable stamp collector). 

Text on the reverse reads “We 

are delighted to include these 

examples from the Royal Philatelic 

Collection which are reproduced 

by the gracious permission 

of Her Majesty The Queen 

to whom the copyright belongs”. 

These cards are fantastic but the 

one complaint I would make is 

that there is no descriptive information 

about where and when 

the photographs were taken and 

what the stamp item is that is 

depicted (now, as a keen stamp 

collector myself - and I also collect 

stamps on postcards both 

used on the back and pictorially 

depicted on the front – I know 

what these items are but for some 

people this might not be the 

case). This set is still available 

from the Isle of Man Post Office 

and if interested I recommend 

obtaining it (check their website 

where a set either mint or cancelled 

first day is £4.85 - interestingly, 

the site does not explain 

what is depicted either). 

Cricket postcards 

Stan Beecham, I know, is a collector 

of cricket related postcards 

as he has not only issued his own 

cards but has also sought out 

other related cards which he has 

kindly sent me. A recent mailing 

included an interesting advert 

postcard for A4 prints of many 

well-known cricketers painted by 

Denise Dean. These are extra 

special as each is autographed by 

the player depicted and the cards 

are authentictaed as a ‘Wisden 

Official Product’. So if you are a 

collector of cricket memorabilia 

then check out the website as she 

has now branched out into postcards, 

featuring Wisden ‘Cricketers 

of the Year’ starting with 

1981. The sets are limited to just 

150 and the artwork looks great. 

The website is 

www.dd-designs.co.uk 

Next month I shall report 

on my trips to Shakespeare country 

and Arnhem in Holland, 

which should be a mixed bag of 

material. Until then by all means 

contact me by email 

– markrouth@hotmail.com or by 

post at 165 Raphael Drive, Shoeburyness, 

Southend on Sea, 

Essex, SS3 9UR. 


Postcard Show 

(Bipex) 2010 



Westminster, London 

SW1 

Thurs - Sat 2-4 Sept 

with postcard exhibition 

on London Life 

Buckingham Covers’ souvenir of their cover carried to the moon on 

Apollo XI and signed by the astronauts 




Picture Postcard Sales List no. 7/10 

Brian Lund Postcards, 15 Debdale Lane, Keyworth, Nottingham NG12 5HT 

MODERNS 

(Cards published by Reflections of a Bygone 

Age. All coloured and in VG condition unless 

stated) 

1. Railway Specials 20-22 (3) - latest issues 

..................................................................£1.20 

2. Nottingham Trams (25).40p each or all for £8 

3. Nottingham Eye. Postcards of the Big Wheel 

(6)...................................................................£2 

4. Steam around Britain (38) 40p each or all 

32 available for ...........................................£11 

5. London Life (20)........40p each or all for £6.50 

6. Martin Rowson political cartoons (8)..........£4 

14 

12 

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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 size 

9. Turk’s Head pub, Donisthorpe...................50p 

10. Narborough railway station (2).................£1 

11. Weybourne railway station.....................50p 

12. Birmingham International Airport (2).......£1 

13. East Midlands International Airport (2)....£1 

14. Melton Mowbray Cattle Market (2)...........£1 

15. Newtown Linford P.O. floods..................50p 

16. Coalville, signal box removal..................50p 

17. Oakham signal box..................................50p 

18. Blisworth, re-opening of canal tunnel 1984 

(3)..............................................................£1.50 

19. Atherstone, Lock Wharf...........................50p 

20. Cricket (?!). Streaker at Eng v. Aus Test at 

Lords 1988 (2)...............................................£1 

21. F.A. Cup Final 1988. Princess of Wales 

presents trophy..........................................50p 

22. The Swan pub, North Kilworth...............50p 

23. Cricket. Newtown Linford Vets XI...........50p 

24. East Leake P.O. multiview.......................50p 

25. Coalville, demolition of coal hopper.......50p 

26. Dunwich, fishermen land live WW2 

mine............................................................50p 

27. Ashby-de-la-Zouch flood multiview.......50p 

28. Norwich, bus in subsidence hole............50p 

29. Redditch, Market......................................50p 

30. Ashby-de-la-Zouch, game shop..............50p 

31. Ravenstone, village stores.......................50p 

32. Royal Family at Sandringham Church 

multiview....................................................50p 

33. Railway. Ruddington Requiem 

Railtour........................................................50p 

OLD POSTCARDS 

34. COMIC. Chas. Crombie ‘Motoritis’ 

police/parking themes CG (2)....................£16 

35. COMIC boxing cartoon pub’d Tuck CF......£4 

36. COMIC. Unsigned McGill seaside 

CG.............................................................£1.50 

37. COMIC. One of the pierrots at Skegness pu 

1912 CG.........................................................£4 

38. COMIC. A lot of bustle at Felixstowe by 

McGill pub’d Asher CG.................................£3 

39. COMIC. My meals are very nicely served 

here at Brighton by McGill (the design, not 

the meal) pub’d Asher pu 1912 CG.............£3 

40. For a little fresh ‘air, come to Southend. 

Teddy Bear pu 1911 pub’d W & K CG.........£4 

41. COMICS mentioning Strood in caption - 

bicycle, baby, fleas (3) CG............................£5 

42. I’m waiting for you at Cleethorpes by JL 

Biggar pu 1917 pub’d Jackson CG..............£3 

43. COMIC. Underground railway theme - Earls 

Court by Harry Parlett pu 1909 CVG............£2 

44. CYCLING. FS comic designs CVG (2).......£3 

45. CYNICUS. The Last Boat pu 1907 CG.......£2 

46. EARLY. Dennis-pub’d 1896 series no. 4 

Newcastle CF..............................................£25 

47. EARLY. Same series, no. 6 South Shields 

CVG..............................................................£30 

48. EARLY. Same series, no. 8 Hartepool 

CVG..............................................................£30 

49. 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...£4 

52. Sackville Hotel, Bexhill-on-Sea VG......£1.75 

53. St. Ermins Hotel, St. James park, London 

advert card pu 1920 CF...........................£1.50 

54. Grosvenor Hotel, London pu 1917 CF......£2 

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any items already sold. Satisfaction or refund. 

You can ring to order on 0115 937 4079 

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V = cards in lot vary in condition 

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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 

56. LITERARY. Marjorie Bates Shakespeare 

sketches. Rosalind, Katharina CVG 

EACH.............................................................£3 

57. LITERARY. Dickens characters by 

unidentified publisher. VG (10)..................£30 

58. LITERARY. Dickens Characters. Tuck Oilette 

3406 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.......................£27 

61. Railways of the World no. 9274 (6) CVG.£18 

62. Famous Expresses series X no. 9972 (6) 

CVG..............................................................£18 

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SPORT 

63. Cricket. 1925 Kent CCC RP VG.................£20 

64. Cricket. Ventnor CC 2nd XI 1914 RP..........£5 

65. Cricket. Brighton ground with match in 

progress pub’d GDD in ‘Star’ series CG......£4 

66. 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. RP 

VG..................................................................£6 

68. Kilham (nr. Driffield) ladies’ hockey team 

VG..................................................................£4 

69. Guiseley hockey team 1914-15 RP VG......£4 

70. Comic hockey by Crackerjack pub’d 

Davidson. ‘A goal!’ CG............................£1.50 

71. Aston Swimming Club, Birmingham 

champions, group RP VG.............................£8 

72. Football. Barnsley cup team 1910. Vignette 

photos of players pub’d Irving pu 1910 

G..................................................................£20 

Moderns News 

Our review of PH Topics’ 

Election 2010 postcard 

last month completely 

missed the 

point of it! (a member 

of staff has been 

sacked). Alice had 

actually left Wonderland 

and stumbled 

into the Wizard of Oz 

in Brian Partridge’s 

design! Thus David 

Cameron was represented 

as the tin man 

who found a heart, 

Nick Clegg was the scarecrow who discovered 

he had a brain, and Gordon Brown was the lion 

who found out how to be brave. Very topical, too, 

with Andrew Lloyd-Webber choosing his 

‘Dorothy’ on primetime TV. Don’t miss adding 

this seminal political postcard to your collections! 

51 

Putting some cards 

back 

David Rye, editor of The 

Welsh Lady newsletter, is an 

enthusiastic collector of 

folklore postcards, selecting 

many examples from dealers’ 

boxes, so he thought it 

only right he should put 

some back into the system. 

Accordingly, he’s published 

this postcard which was 

officially launched at a 

Welsh lunch in Romilly-sur- 

Seine in north-eastern 

France 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 of 

some kind to make up a two-hour ‘Spectacle de Jumelage’ in Romilly’s impressive 

municipal theatre. David and his wife Pat (both on the right of the postcard) took a Welsh 

folkdance group. The photo was actually taken in Dingle, south-west Ireland, but as the 

waterfront looks similar to Milford Haven’s, they felt it would be suitable to give out to 

all the twinning delegates in Romilly! 

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35 

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Poetic postcard tribute 

Welsh literary figures have 

been honoured on a set of 16 

postcards published by Academi. 

Pictured right is short 

story writer Rhys Davies, 

while others featured are poets 

Brenda Chamberlain novelist 

Raymond Williams. You can 

obtain a set by sending a large 

SAE to Academi, Mount Stuart 

House, Mount Stuart Square, 

Cardiff CF10 5FQ. 


DALKEITH LIMITED EDITION POSTCARDS 

RAILWAY AND CLASSIC 

POSTER SERIES 

These sets first made their appearance over 30 

years 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 six 

in a special illustrated envelope. The first sets 

were limited to 1000, each envelope (except the very first set) being numbered. They 

were 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 and 

became sought-after collectors’ items. We present a selection for sale here. 

RAILWAY SERIES 

R1 Liverpool & Manchester £7 

R2 Somerset & Dorset £20 

R3 Stratford upon Avon & Midland Junction £10 

R4 London, Tilbury & Southend £10 

R5 West Highland £10 

R6 Midland & Great Northern £3 

R7 Lynton & Barnstaple £8 

R8 George Stephenson’s Achievements £3 

R9 Bournemouth Belle Inaugural Train £8 

R10 Liverpool Overhead £6 

R11 Liverpool & S.W.R. Posters (set ‘A;) £12 

R12 Liverpool & S.W.R. Posters (set ‘B;) £8 

R13 Leek & Manifold Valley Light Railway £8 

R14 Isle of Wight £6 

R15 North London £3 

R17 Great North of Scotland £8 

R18 Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway (2nd set) £6 

R19 North Eastern (Road Vehicles) £3 

R20 Corris £6 

R21 Leicester & Swannington £3 

R22 Railway Paddle Steamer Trips £8 

R23 G.W.R. Posters (Part 1) £10 

R24 G.W.R. Posters (Part 2) £7 

R25 Great Central £3 

R26 Weymouth & Portland £7 

R27 Flying Socotsman (Loco & Train) £6 

R28 Padarn & Penryn £3 

R29 More Tickets (another 24) £3 

R30 Cheshire Lines £5 

R31 Northern Belle Train £6 

R32 Welsh Highland £8 

R33 Severn & Wye & Severn Bridge Railway £6 

R34 G.W.R. & L.M.S. Joint Posters £7 

R35 London, Chatham & Dover £5 

R36 Pullmans £7 

R37 Invergarry & Ft. Augustus £8 

R38 More G.W.R. Posters (Part 1) £8 

R39 More G.W.R. Posters (Part 2) £7 

R40 Railway Guides (Part 1) £3 

R41 Railway Guides (Part 2) £3 

R42 Hundred of Manhood & Selsey Tramways £3 

R43 Campbeltown & Machrihanish Lught Railway £8 

R44 London, Brighton & South Coast £8 

R45 Metropolitan £8 

R46 Metropolitan & Great Central Joint Railway £3 

R47 Badges & Buttons (Part 1) £3 

R48 Badges & Buttons (Part 2) £3 

R49 Christmas Railway Posters £10 

R50 Famous Trains £9 

R51 Callandar & Oban £7 

R52 Southern Railway Posters £9 

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. 

CLASSIC POSTER 

SERIES 

PAPER BYGONES, P.O. Box 4443, Bournemouth BH5 1ZX Tel: 01202 302842 


R53 Great Northern Railway Posters £7 

R54 L.N.E.R. Frolic Posters £6 

R56 Railway Posters of Dorset & Hants £7 

R57 Hull & Barnsley £6 

R58 Salute To The Great Western £9 

R59 Silver Jubilee Train £7 

R60 Posters of the L.M.S. £8 

R61 Railway Golfing Posters £18 

R62 Railway Posters by Terence Cuneo £8 

R63 Glyn Valley Tramway £3 

R64 More S.R. Posters £7 

R65 L.N.E.R. ‘The Book Lovers Railway Posters’ £4 

R66 Tickets For Everything (Part 1) £3 

R67 Tickets For Everything (Part 2) £3 

R68 Railway Horses & Their Brasses £7 

R69 Festiniog Railway £3 

R70 Talyllyn Railway £3 

R71 Railway Freight Posters £3 

R72 G.W.R. Posters of Somerset £7 

R73 G.W.R. Posters of Wales £9 

R74 L.M.S. & L.N.E.R. Joint Posters £7 

R75 Southwold Railway £9 

R76 Railway Posters of The Isle of Man £8 

R77 Railway Posters of Lancashire Coast £3 

R78 Six West Country Railways £6 

R79 Posters of The Southampton Docks £6 

R80 Coronation Scot Train (L.M.S.) £7 

R81 The Coronation Train (L.N.E.R.) £9 

R82 Railway Wartime Posters £7 

R83 G.W.R. Posters of London £6 

R84 Railway Hotel Posters £3 

R85 Railway Menus & Tariff Covers £3 

R86 L.N.E.R. Posters of East Anglia £3 

R87 G.W.R. Posters of Devon £7 

R88 G.W.R. Posters of Cornwall £7 

R89 Railway Posters of North Wales £3 

R90 Railway Castle Posters £3 

R91 More G.W.R. & L.M.S. Joint Posters £3 

R92 Railway Continental Services £3 

R93 Southern Electric £9 

R94 More Railway Services £3 

R95 Pre-Group Scottish Railways £6 

R96 L.M.S. Posters by Norman Wilkinson £7 

R97 L.N.E.R. Posters by Frank Newbould £7 

R98 More Railway Posters From Southern £3 

R99 Golden Arrow Train £6 

R100 Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway £3 

R101 Cornish Riviera Train £7 

R102 Flying Scotsman (Posters) £10 

R103 More Named Trains £3 

P1 Early Transport £7 

P2 Toulouse Lautrec £3 

P3 Alphonse Mucha £8 

P4 Early Aviation Meetings £9 

P5 Jules Cheret £3 

P6 Ludwig Hohlwein £3 

P7 Shipping Companies 

P8 Automobiles £7 

P9 Early Theatre £3 

P10 Airlines £5 

P11 Orient Express 

P12 British Circus 

P13 Bicycles 

P14 World War I £7 

P15 Schweppes 

P16 The Beggarstaffs £3 

P17 Publishers £3 

P18 Entertainments £6 

P19 More Shipping Comapanies 

P20 Propaganda £7 

P21 Grasset & Berthron £3 

P22 Follies Bergere £7 

P23 More Parisien Music Hall £7 

P24 Coach Companies £7 

P25 Domestic £5 

P26 Recruitment £6 

P27 Early Cinema £7 

P28 Travel of the 20’s & 30’s’ £6 

P29 Lucian Bernhard £3 

P30 F. Lenhard £3 

P31 Racing £3 

P32 World War II £5 

P33 Christmas Shopping £8 

P34 More Bicycles £7 

P35 Jean D’ylen £3 

P36 Orient Line Cruises £7 

P37 More Automobiles £3 

P38 The Third Reich £7 

P39 More Cinema £3 

P40 Drinks £3 

P41 Animals £3 

P42 Beverages £3 

P43 Wagons-Lits by Cassandre £3 

P44 More Recruitment £3 

P45 More Aviation Meetings £3 

P46 E. McKnight Kauffer £3 

P47 Art Nouveau £3 

P48 Art Deco £3 

P49 Dancing £3 

P50 Wartime Humour £3 

P51 Tom Purvis £3 

P52 American Railroads £3

LANCASHIRE DANCE BANDS pre- 

1925. May say Quadrille, String or 

Orchestral Band. Dave Middlehurst, 

173 Blackburn Road, 

Heapey, Chorley, Lancashire PR6 

8EJ. Tel. 01257-278527. 

WANTED. Postcards of the Stover 

Canal and locks, Newton Abbot in 

Devon. Tony Volante, 10 Falkland 

Drive, Kingsteignton, Newton 

Abbot, Devon TQ12 3RH. Tel. 

01626-360758. 

£25 PAID for an upright real photographic 

card captioned ‘Lusitania, 

first time at the stage’ (Liverpool). 

Condition essential. Harry Potterton, 

63 Keyham Lane West, Leicester 

LE5 1RS. 

PLYMOUTH, DEVON postcards 

wanted: pre-1940s street scenes, 

shopfronts, social events and 

transport. Contact Chris Russell, 22 

Wardlow Gardens, Crownhill, Plymouth, 

Devon PL6 5PU. Tel. 01752 

783006. Mobile 07971 224886. 

FLEETWOOD (LANCASHIRE) - 

seeking particular postcard. Publisher 

probably Bamforth’s in Viewcard 

ET series. Early 1960s black & 

white. View of Old Lifeboat House 

and Slipway, showing tide and 

channel with outward bound 

trawler. Ian Hannah 01942-244497. 

POSTCARDS OF FULHAM plus Fulham-associated 

football. John 

Martin, 1 The Rise, Tadworth, Surrey 

KT20 5PT. 

KEYWORTH & PLUMTREE postcards 

wanted, please, on approval. 

Help me improve our collection! I’d 

also like any postally used cards 

sent to an address in either village 

1900-11. Brian Lund, 15 Debdale 

Lane, Keyworth, Nottingham NG12 

5HT. 

PALESTINE 

I am a collector looking for 

all series from all periods. 

Please send even single 

cards. I will usually pay your 

price plus your postage 

costs, or I will exchange for 

your own subject 

Classified 

COST 

Lineage: 16p per word per month (1-3 insertions) 

13p per word per month (4 or more consecutive 

insertions without text change) 

e.g. 12 words: £1.92 for 1 month, £3.84 for 2 months, £5.76 for 3 

months, £6.24 for 4 months, £7.80 for 5 months, £9.36 for 6 

months. 

Minimum cost of single insertion £1.50. Minimum cost of multiple 

insertions £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 calculating 

cost, do not count street number, and calculate tel. 

no./postal code as one word each. 

PRESENTATION: Please type or write advert clearly, underlining 

words required in bold. Include your name (and not just an 

address) within the advert. 

TRADE ADVERTISING: Traders advertising for postcards in the 

‘wanted’ section must conclude their advert thus: (T) if they 

require postcards for resale and expect trade discount/prices from 

other dealers. This avoids any misunderstanding by prospective 

vendors. Dealers who fail to comply with this instruction will in 

future be refused advertising space. 

ALTERATIONS: If any changes are required in an advert, or it is to 

be resumed after a break, please make sure you resubmit the 

whole advert. 

POSTCARDS 

WANTED 

David Pearlman 

788-790 Finchley Road 

London NW11 7TJ 

Tel: 020-8201-8998 

email: 

david@centrum-uk.com 

BETTER SHIPPING: passenger, 

cargo, naval. England, Germany, 

America, Russia, Japan. ‘Lusitania’ 

launch, WW2 Nazi zeppelins, Nazi 

propaganda, Hitler entering 

Prague, WW2 Eastern Front. Irish 

political 1920s (not 1916!). Overseas 

sellers welcome. Harry Potterton, 

63 Keyham Lane West, Leicester 

LE5 1RS. 

ISLE OF MAN, 

GIBRALTAR, 

MONACO, 

COURT CARDS, 

CUNARD. 

Quality cards desired. 

MAX COLLISTER, 

20 CREGGAN LEA, 

PORT ST MARY, 

ISLE OF MAN IM9 5BE 

Tel: 01624 832062 

DENTAL POSTCARDS wanted. 

Also postcards from 

LUXEMBOURG. 

Postage always refunded. 

John Lesch, 133 Rue 

E. Beres, L-1232 

Howald, Luxembourg. 

NORWAY. Early cards/Postal History 

- Scott Simpson, 14 Dower 

Road, Sutton Coldfield B75 6UA. 

Email: 

scottsimpsonuk@btinternet.com 

UK and AMERICAN ASYLUMS 

AND MENTAL HOSPITALS. Postcards 

and ephemera wanted. 

Please quote (inc. postage). Mr B. 

Hopper, 26 Sandfield Avenue, Littlehampton, 

West Sussex BN17 

7LL. Email: barone.hopper@btinternet.com 

A.R. QUINTON, Salmon no. 2986 

Marine Lake, Rhyl (& miniature 

railway). P. Cove 01308-459738. 

PERMANENTLY 

REQUIRED. 

Japanese hand-painted/ 

lacquered postcards. All 

types considered (inc. oils). 

Also wanted: pre-1950 

postcards 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. 

COLLECTION OF LEADING 

ARTISTES of the American stage. 

Publisher - Darwin Silberer, New 

York. 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, and 

Norfolk & Suffolk railway stations. 

D. Cross, 60 Uplands Way, Diss 

IP22 4DF. Tel. 01379-651897. 

MABEL GEAR. Anything at all 

wanted. Terry Wilson, 11 Glenfield 

Avenue, Doncaster, South Yorkshire 

DN4 0HT. Tel. 01302 858210. 

SOUTHPORT and SUBURBS 

BIRKDALE, AINSDALE, 

CROSSENS, CHURCHTOWN 

Single items and collections 

welcome. Postage refunded 

IAN SIMPSON 

55 LARKFIELD LANE 

SOUTHPORT 

LANCASHIRE PR9 8NN 

Tel: 01704-227765 

iansimpson@talktalk.net 

SHROPSHIRE, CHESHIRE, 

STAFFORDSHIRE, 

WORCESTERSHIRE 

All postcards wanted 

Top prices paid for better 

and RP cards 

PHIL JONES T.P.S 

6 PASTEUR DRIVE, 

LEEGOMERY, 

TELFORD TF1 6PQ 

Tel/Fax 01952-223926 

e-mail philjo@bigfoot.com 

SALVATION ARMY postcards 

wanted. David Pickard, 1 Beauval 

Road, East Dulwich, London SE22 

8UG. Tel: 020 8693 2585. 

LIDSTONE, 

OXFORDSHIRE 

A. Foster, Little 

Heysham, Naphill, 

Bucks HP14 4SU 

Tel. 01494-562024 

BULLDOGS Comic, Patriotic, Real 

Photo anything considered. 

Approvals to - G. Jennings, 4 

Henry Road, West Bridgford, Nottingham. 

Postage refunded. 

PADDY THE IRISHMAN wants any 

good quality Irish cards you have 

for sale. Paddy Macken, 10 Villa 

Park Road, Dublin 7. 

ANY AIRPORTS & AIRLINE ISSUED 

PROPELLOR aircraft wanted. Mike 

Charlton, 4 South East Farm, Horsley 

NE15 0NT. Email: 

mike@aviationpostcard.co.uk or 

www.aviationpostcard.co.uk 

NAPHILL, 

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE 

A. Foster, Little 

Heysham, Naphill, 

Bucks HP14 4SU 

Tel. 01494-562024 

SUFFOLK, NORFOLK and Cambridgeshire 

Postcards published by 

F.G. Pawsey & Co. Ltd and Langhorn 

Pawsey & Co. (L.P. & Co.) of 

Bury St. Edmunds. Bob Pawsey, 82 

Westerfield Road, Ipswich IP4 2XN. 

Tel: 01473 252893. 

DULWICH, CAMBERWELL, CAT- 

FORD postcards wanted. David 

Pickard, 1 Beauval Road, London 

SE22 8UG. Telephone 020 8693 

2585. 

SHIPPING 

- the liner ‘BREMEN’ 

c. 1930s postcard or 

picture in colour if possible. 

Also ‘BREMEN’, the aircraft 

which made the first Atlantic 

flight from Ireland to Canada in 

1928: any cards or pictures. 

DAVID COLE 

52 Hunters Gate, 

Much Wenlock, Shropshire 

TF13 6BW 

Tel. 01952 728861 

GERMAN RAILWAY POSTCARDS: 

trains, engines, stations up to 1925. 

Donald Stoneman, 98 Kingswood 

Chase, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex SS9 

3BG. Tel. 01702 712431. 

BLACK & WHITE SCOTTISH VIL- 

LAGE and town views, especially 

Angus, Fife, islands, plus Hallowe’en, 

posted Caymans, Sudan. 

Chad Neighbor, 8 Dalgarno Park, 

Hillside, Montrose DD10 9JF. (T). 

Email:- c.neighbor@virgin.net 

WANTED: REAL PHOTO 

POSTCARDS OF PEOPLE 

Seeking quality RP cards of 

individuals or groups: 

all classes and kinds. 

Portrait and Social History type; 

formal or informal. 

Must be postcard backed and 

British. 

No commercially published cards. 

TOM PHILLIPS 

57 TALFOURD ROAD 

LONDON SE15 5NN 

Phone 020 7701 3978 

Fax 020 7703 2800 

tom@tomphillips.co.uk 

LEICESTER STATIONS - interiors of 

Central Station and Belgrave Road 

Station (no reproductions, thanks). 

Also interiors of Tilton, Ingarsby, 

Hallaton, Great Dalby. Nick Miller, 

19 Bath Terrace, Newcastle NE3 

1UH. Tel. 0191-222-5603. 

GREECE 

Postcard collector seeking all 

areas of any subject relating to 

Greece including Costumes, 

Personalities, Royalty, Ships, 

Trains, Cartoons, Art, etc. etc. 

Prompt response 

J. Tsatsas, 1A Netherhall 

Gardens, London NW3 5RN 

FOULSHAM, NORFOLK. All considered. 

David Child, 8 Seaton Court, 

Seaton, Torpoint, Cornwall PL11 

3JD. 

BOY SCOUTS/BADEN POWELL. 

(Cards, Badges, Memorabilia). 

Comic & Greetings cards of Plymouth 

area and Royal Air Force. 

Graham Brooks, 28 Rawlin Close, 

Eggbuckland, Plymouth PL6 5TF. 

Tel. 01752 774467. 

TOP QUALITY 

UNUSUAL 

FOREIGN POSTCARDS 

WANTED 

Single cards or collections 

Contact: 

Grenville Collins 

Flat 81, 95 Wilton Road 

London SW1V 1BZ 

Tel. 020 7834 1852 

e-mail: 

grenvillecollins@safeserve.com 

FOWEY, FOWEY, FOWEY, Cornwall. 

Quality postcards, photos and 

ephemera wanted. Marcus Lewis 

01726 832089. Mobile 07973 

420568. 

marcus@fowey9.freeserve.co.uk 

PLEASE MENTION PICTURE POSTCARD MONTHLY 

WHEN REPLYING TO ADVERTISERS 


POSTCARDS 

WANTED 

PORTLING, PORT O’WARREN - in 

Kirkcudbrightshire wanted. Brian 

Cox, Kirknewton House, Kirknewton, 

Wooler NE71 6XF or 

briancox@mythica.co.uk. 

GERMANY - All areas and subjects 

particularly aviation up to 1945. P. 

Dickerson, 20 Easson Road, Redcar, 

TS10 1HJ. 

SUSSEX RAILWAY STATIONS: 

Ardingly, Barcombe, East Grinstead, 

Haywards Heath, Horsted 

Keynes, Lewes, Newick & Chailey, 

Sheffield Park and West Hoathly. 

Send cards/photographs to J. 

Young, 28 The Garstons, Bookham, 

Surrey KT23 3DS. Postage refunded. 

NORFOLK AND NORWICH CINE- 

MA postcards and ephemera wanted. 

P. Yaxley, ‘Polperro’, Silfield 

Road, Wymondham, Norfolk NR18 

9AU. (Tel: 01953 603549). 

ITALY 

POSTCARDS WANTED 

also postcards of all other 

countries, world postal history 

and postmarks 

Single items, collections and 

accumulations welcome 

RICHARD GEE 

7 Brooks Malting, Kiln Lane, 

Manningtree CO11 1HP 

Tel: 01206 393682 Mobile: 

077987 48350 

email: richardgeeuk@aol.com 

YORKSHIRE CRICKETERS AND 

CRICKET TEAMS. Private collector. 

Details to: Ron Deaton, 20 Hill Top 

Road, Harrogate HG1 3AN. 01423 

507690. 

DEVON AND CORNWALL cards 

required. J.R. Adams, 65 Burnley 

Road, Newton Abbot, Devon TQ12 

1YD. 

CRICKET - anything considered. 

Local teams if named or located. 

Approvals to - G. Jennings, 4 

Henry Road, West Bridgford, Nottingham 

- Postage refunded. 

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. 

For immediate response please 

write to: 

Adrian Andrusier 

c/o Sheldon Monk & Co. Ltd., 

15-19 Cavendish Place, London 

W1G 0DX 

or telephone 020-7580 5866 

TURKISH 

POSTCARDS & PHOTOGRAPHS 

Albums & Collections wanted 

Top prices paid 

Please contact 

Sinan Erhun 

saerhun@btinternet.com 

Tel. 07981-950976 

PTA member 

COUNTY DURHAM, WALES, 

RHODESIA. For my own collection: 

Easington/Colliery, South Hetton 

and Northern Rhodesia. For resale, 

better cards of Glamorgan, Monmouthshire 

and Radnorshire. John 

Gray, 25 Station Road, Knighton, 

Powys LD7 1DT. Tel/Fax 01547- 

528591 (T) 

FALKLAND ISLANDS pre-1982 

postcards and used envelopes 

wanted on approval. Alan Brunt, 56 

Redehall Road, Smallfield, Surrey 

RH6 9QL. 

alan.brunt@churchpostcards.co.uk 

SUFFOLK 

Postcards of Earl Soham, 

Ashfield, Bedfield, 

Brandeston & Cretingham 

wanted. 

Postage refunded 

Norman Haines, The Old 

Stores, The Street, Earl 

Soham, Suffolk IP13 7SA 

Tel. 01728 685234 

Email: 

mjh130488@hotmail.co.uk 

EXHIBITION CARDS wanted by collector, 

especially cards of stands 

and advertising cards, no foreign 

exhibitions wanted. Also Church 

Missionary cards, Crystal Palace, 

and topo’s for the following areas: 

Anerley, Beckenham, Elmers End, 

Hayes, Keston, Penge and West 

Wickham. Postage paid. Bill 

Tonkin, 23 Bramley Way, West 

Wickham, Kent BR4 9NT. 

CORNISH LITANY CARDS 

(also sometimes referred to as 

Devon litany, West Country 

litany, Scottish litany etc, but 

they all have the following text, 

or something very similar, in 

common... “From Ghoulies and 

Ghosties and long legetty beasties 

& things that go bump in the 

night...Good Lord deliver us!” 

Please contact Debby at 

debrameister@hotmail.com 

MISCELLANY 

POSTCARDS 

FOR SALE 

MILITARY POSTCARDS 

Sales Lists, Approvals 

Send SAE with details of your 

requirements 

COLLECTING BRITISH ARMY 

POSTCARDS 

An essential reference book £9.95 

plus £1.75 UK postage or send 

SAE for full description. 

GEOFF WHITE 

19 Rushmoor Lane, Backwell, 

Bristol BS48 3BN 

20 GENUINE OLD DONALD 

McGILL POSTCARDS £15 inc. post; 

also Bamforths, Pedro, Mike, Xerxes, 

Trow, Flip, Wilkins and many 

other saucy Sixties postcards 50p 

each. Eric Kent, 8 The Croft, 

Flitwick, Bedfordshire MK45 1DL. 

Tel. 01525-752222. 

PIPWICK’S CHURCH POSTCARD 

SHOP now on ebay.co.uk with over 

40,000 church postcards also available 

directly from Pip Barker. Send 

wants list to: g992barker@btinternet.com 

or phone 07778-560241. 

FULL SET (54 Postcards) Bruce 

Bairnfather’s “Bystanders” fragments 

from France. £350 o.n.o. 

Roger Hopkins, Eastbourne. Tel: 

01323 501679. 

WEB SITES 

www.grbcollectables.com 

www.peterspostcards.co.uk for 

interesting and unusual old paper 

collectables. 

COME VISIT CASANDRA CARDS 

Postcard Store for many postcards 

and other collectables at 

http://tiny.cc/9st22 

www.postcardworld.co.uk 

Visit Postcard World for many surprises. 

We have thousands of vintage 

subject and UK topographical 

cards on offer here on our site. All 

of our cards are illustrated for your 

interest and information and we 

trust that this will add to your 

enjoyment of Postcard World. 

Please browse around and hopefully 

you will find something of 

interest. Our website is updated 

weekly so bookmark us and visit 

regularly 

Deryk and Brenda Whitfield 

5 Gipsy Close 

Balsall Common, West Midlands 

CV7 7FU 

www.postcardworld.co.uk 

PAT HOLTON (PH TOPICS). Give 

Moderns a Go! 

www.phtopics.clara.net 

REFLECTIONS OF A BYGONE AGE 

website is at www.postcardcollecting.co.uk 

POSTCARDENMARK 

Vintage Quality Postcards 

www.delcampe.net/stores/postcardenmark 

VINTAGE POSTCARDS FOR 

SALE 

Visit my online shop at 

www.alfapostcards.com 

1000’s still to list 

Colin Williams 

31 Rivington Drive 

Burscough, Lancashire L40 7RN 

01704-895056 

www.markfynn.com 

Real Photographic Topographical 

NEW POSTCARD WEBSITE. 

www.millstonpostcards.co.uk 

New stock added weekly. 

Paypal/cheques accepted. 

DALKEITH POSTCARDS for Railway 

and Shipping see:- 

www.dalkeithpostcards.co.uk 

M.E.P. POSTCARDS. www.meppostcards.co.uk. 

Modern specialists. 

www.ukpostcards.com 

Postcards of GHOSTS or 

HAUNTED PLACES 

required by serious 

collector - must either 

show apparition or text 

refer to haunting 

No Halloween, comic or 

Cornish Litany please 

Also looking for GWR 

‘Legendland’ series 

Approvals welcomed and 

dealt with promptly, 

postage refunded 

G.M Wheeldon, 

9 Ashtree Court, Feltham 

Hill Road, Ashford, 

Middlesex TW15 2BU 

Tel: 01784 246399 (eve) 

STEREO VIEWERS 

WANTED 1850-1880’s 

and Stereo Daguerreotypes, 

glass and cards 

Items must be in good 

condition. 

Gwyn Tel: 020 8789 1320 

mobile: 07884 192355 

Contributors and advertisers 

are advised that the 

August 2010 edition of 


MONTHLY will be published 

on July 20th. Deadline 

for copy is July 10th. 

POSTCARDENMARK. Vintage 

quality postcards. 

www.stores.ebay.co.uk/postcardenmark 

Looking for vintage old postcards? 

Please visit our online shop 

www.hoogeduinpostcards.com 

Jac. Verloop, Schoolstraat 1, 2202 HC Noordwijk, 

The Netherlands 

Tel: +31 71 3617568 

Don’t miss out on a single copy of PPM - 

take out a subscription or place a regular 

order with your supplier 


LITERATURE 

SHOPS 

INTRODUCING... 

PAGE POSTCARDS 

MODERNS 

FOR SALE 

THE POSTCARD ALBUM is back! 

International postcard magazine 

from Germany in English. Issue 24 

out now. 40 packed pages in FULL 

colour. Lots of old postcard printer/publisher 

research. Highlights 

this issue: Albrecht & Meister, 

Berlin. Aristophot, Leipzig, the 

firms behind the ‘Erika’ trademark 

and more. Copy £3.50 ppd. Order 

from GB representative: Ron Griffiths, 

47 Long Arrotts, Hemel 

Hempstead, Herts HP1 3EX. For 

more details on content and postcard 

research in general please 

visit: www.tpa-project.info 

PICTURE POSTCARD ANNUAL 

2010 is now available at £4.75 plus 

postage, with an up to date directory 

of dealers, fair organisers, 

auctions etc plus lots of features 

and articles, and a list of important 

2010 postcard fairs. On sale from 

your favourite dealer or direct from 

the publishers at 15 Debdale Lane, 

Keyworth, Nottingham NG12 5HT 

(postage £1 UK, £3 Europe, £5.50 

rest of world) 

CARTES POSTALES ET COLLEC- 

TION, the French magazine for 

postcard collectors, costs £5.30 inc 

postage. CARD TIMES is the regular 

monthly magazine for cigarette 

card collectors. Current issue and 

back numbers £3.05 each (inc. 

postage). Reflections, 15 Debdale 

Lane, Keyworth, Nottingham 

NG12 5HT. 

AUCTIONS 

PAGE POSTCARDS 

AT 

HUNGERFORD ARCADE 

Only 5 minutes from the M4 

(Junction 14) 

Our stock changes weekly... so 

don’t miss out! We keep 

20,000 UK, Foreign and 

Subject postcards - also some 

stamps, postal history and 

ephemera. 

20% discount on 

purchases over £50 

HUNGERFORD ARCADE 

(Unit 7) 

26 HIGH STREET 

HUNGERFORD 

BERKSHIRE RG17 0NF 

Opening Times: 

Monday to Friday - 9.15 to 5.30 

Saturday - 9.15 till 6.00 

Sunday - 11.00 till 5.00 

POSTCARDS 

CIGARETTE CARDS 

BOOKS PRINTS 

STAMPS ACCESSORIES 

GRAHAM LEADLEY 

LITTLE PERFORATIONS 

59 HIGH ROAD 

WORMLEY, HERTS EN10 6JJ 

01992-467631 

Over 35 years at this address 

OPEN WEEKENDS 

Please ring first if travelling any 

distance 

at The Lamb Arcade, 

Wallingford 

Over 6,000 UK, Foreign and 

Subject postcards. 

20% discount on 

purchases over £50 

LAMB ARCADE 

HIGH STREET 

WALLINGFORD 

OXFORDSHIRE OX10 0AA 

Opening Times: 

Monday to Friday - 10.00am 

till 5.00pm 

Saturday - 10.00am till 5.30pm 

SIDMOUTH ANTIQUE 

CENTRE 

EXTENSIVE RANGE OF UK, 

FOREIGN & SUBJECT POST- 

CARDS - SOME STAMPS 

All Saints Road 

Sidmouth 

Devon EX10 8ES 

(2 minutes from the seafront) 

OPENING TIMES 

Monday-Saturday 9am - 5pm 

Tel. 01395-512588 

EPHEMERA 

J. ARTHUR DIXON “Photogravure” 

series. For lists: P. Dunn, 12 Wyndham 

Crescent, Burton-upon-Trent DE15 

0DF. 

M.E.P. POSTCARDS 

(Moderns) 

John & Margaret Pearsall 

Most Subjects Stocked - Lists 

Available 

Free Monthly Stock Additions List 

Fairs Attended - Refer to Website 

or Contact Direct 

34, Franche Road, Wolverley, 

Kidderminster, Worcs DY11 5TP 

Tel: (01562) 850915 

E-mail: mail@mep-postcards.co.uk 

Website: www.mep-postcards.co.uk 

MODERNS 

WANTED 

LENTICULAR postcards wanted. Do 

you collect them or have any for sale? 

Ring Peter on 0208-925-8215 or write 

to 96 Clacton Road, Walthamstow E17 

8AR. 

J. ARTHUR DIXON Shanklin, Newport, 

Inverness, Dixon-Lotus, DRG all 

variants, all sizes. Bulk or singles. R. 

Richardson, 58 Downsview Gardens, 

Wootton Bridge, Isle of Wight PO33 

4LS. Email: vectis101@onwight.net 

POSTMARKS 

FOR THE DALKEITH AUCTIONS 

CATALOGUE please go to 

www.dalkeithcatalogue.com. If 

you are not on the net and would 

like a copy of our monthly auction 

catalogue phone 01202 292905. 

LODDON AUCTIONS. Long established 

May and Nov/Dec auctions, 

regularly with 600+ lots comprising 

a wide range of printed material. 

Catalogues £3 by post. Entries 

invited. Enquiries to G. Arkell, 39 

Falmouth Road, Reading, Berks 

RG2 8QR. Tel: 07909 736198. 

APPROVALS 

APPROVALS. ARTIST-SIGNED and 

all other art subjects and publishers 

- Tuck, Salmon, etc. Also Railway 

and Sports cards. Not seen on 

internet or at fairs. Wants lists to: 

R. Cottrill, 33 Castleton Road, 

Hope, Hope Valley S33 6SB. Tel. 

01433-621122. 

APPROVALS. Subjects - Animals, 

Aviation, Ballet, Birds, Children, 

Cinema, Comic, Glamour, Literary, 

Military, Shipping, Silks, Theatre. 

Also Artists. Please state interests. 

Ken Simson, 14 Old Farm Road 

East, Sidcup DA15 8AE. 

FAIRS 

NOTTINGHAM Postcard, Cigarette 

Card & Ephemera Fair at Harvey 

Hadden Sports Centre, Wigman 

Road, Bilborough, Nottingham. 

Tuesday 6th July 2010 from 3pm 

to 8pm. 40+ postcard dealers 

including moderns specialists. 

Admission £1 inc. souvenir cards 

and programme. Contact Reflections 

on 0115 937 4079 or see our 

website 

www.postcardcollecting.co.uk for 

more details and locator map. 

POSTCARDS IN MID-WALES. 

Cards on all subjects at 27 Station 

Road, Knighton, Powys LD7 1DT. 

Ring John Gray on 07816-302718 

for opening times. 

FOSTERS OF FILEY 

When visiting the East Coast 

please call in for:- Postcards, 

Stamps, Postal History, FDC’s 

and small collectables 

28 BELLE VUE STREET, 

FILEY, NORTH 

YORKSHIRE YO14 9HY 

01723 514433 

Open Mon, Tues, Fri, Sat 

Sunny EASTBOURNE 

has a Collectors’ Shop, 

trading in a wide range 

of collectables. 

Over 40,000 

OLD POSTCARDS 

always in stock. Also stamps, 

coins & medals, cigarette cards, 

toys, silver, ephemera 

SORRY NO APPROVALS 

Open Tues and Sat 10 - 5 

Other times by appointment 

“FRANCOIS” 

26 South Street, 

Eastbourne, Sussex 

Tel: (01323) 644464 

(Home) 01323-646694 after 6 pm 

PLEASE MENTION 


MONTHLY WHEN 

REPLYING TO 

ADVERTISERS 

For my clients in Holland, I want 

to buy 

AGRICULTURE EPHEMERA - 

Brochures, Posters, Catalogues, 

Postcards, Photos of all kinds of 

machinery like tractors, ploughs, 

threshing machines etc. 

up to approx. 1950. 

Please send your offers by scan 

or xerox to: 

RON FROM HOLLAND 

Ron de Bijl 

Rijksstraatweg 234 

2241 BX Wassenaar 

Netherlands 

email: ronsas@zonnet.nl 

tel. *31 70 3817809 

POSTCARDS, 

EPHEMERA, BOOKS 

Send for latest free catalogue 

which includes a large section 

of British topographical 

postcards or see website 

www.paperbygones.co.uk 

PAPER BYGONES 

PO BOX 4443, 

BOURNEMOUTH BH5 1ZX 

Tel: 01202 302842 

Got a point of 

view or something 

to say? 

Write to PPM 

Postbag! 

Please reply to approval 

selections within seven 

days 

POSTMARKS 

WANTED 

Stamp, Postcard & Postal History 

Dealers 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. 

Highest prices paid, send for our offer. 

BAY STAMPS 

Nigel Davidson 

Freepost, Rogart, 

Sutherland IV28 3BR 

Tel. 01408-641747 


Postcard 

Show (Bipex) 

2010 



Westminster, 

London SW1 

Thurs - Sat 

2 - 4 September 

with postcard 

exhibition on 

London Life 

Don’t miss it! 


Books 

Llangollen artist - the life, work and postcards 

of Ernest Burrows (Christopher 

Burrows) is published by Bridge Books, 

Wrexham. 

The picture postcard boom of the early 

20th century gave an opportunity for 

artists and photographers all over the 

world to express and showcase their 

skills, sometimes on a national stage, 

more often quite locally or regionally. 

This 96-page beautifully-produced hardback 

book with colourful dustjacket is the 

author’s homage to his grandfather, 

Ernest Burrows, whose comic observations 

of Welsh life sold in huge quantities 

to amused tourists in the first two 

decades of the 20th century. 

The book sets the scene 

with a critique of Llangollen 

(“not a pretty town” - 

though it attracted plenty of 

tourists a century ago, keen 

to explore its surrounding 

countryside). Ernest’s father 

William, who hailed from 

Manchester, met his future 

wife Mary Jane in Llangollen, 

one of the places 

where his travels as a salesman 

took him. The couple 

lived in Manchester - where 

Ernest was born - until Wiliam’s 

ill-health persuaded 

the family, by then five in 

number, to settle in Llangollen 

with Mary’s father. 

William’s early death left 

his wife looking after the 

three children and making 

ends meet by turning their 

house into a bed-and-break- 

Clubscene extra 

Flo McCarthy, chairman of 

the SOUTH DOWNS club, 

took the audience on a trip 

around his homeland of Ireland. 

He began with a range 

of mainly pre-1910 urban 

scenes, including coloured 

cards. For inter-war rural 

views, he turned to cards 

published by Judges of 

Hastings, their photographs 

giving atmospheric views. 

Flo concluded with a range 

of cards from William 

Lawrence, who opened a 

photographic studio in 

Dublin in 1865 and over the 

years covered the length 

and breadth of Ireland. 

Many of his 40,000 glass 

plates were subsequently 

turned into postcards. 

Torbay Postcard Club 

have just released the 100th 

edition of their newsletter. 

The full-page edition features 

an article on the River 

Dart and pictorial shorts on 

the artists Evelyn Stuart 

Hardy and Albert Carnell, 

Hands Across The Sea and 

Romance. 

fast establishment. 

Like so 

many Edwardian 

artists 

whose work 

appeared on 

postcards, Ernest’s artistic 

and inventive talents blossomed 

early, and he began 

painting postcard-size 

comic sketches which he 

sent off to various publishers 

in the hope of a commission. 

He was signed up 

by Liverpool firm Thomas 

Brothers, who subsequently 

issued about 100 of his 

designs in their ‘Everton’ 

series. Initially the comic 

sketches had English captions, 

but Ernest developed 

the habit of adding Welsh 

words onto the cards to 

give them a more ‘authentic’ 

feel. The fact he had no 

knowledge of the Welsh 

language and relied on his 

wife Melinda, whom he 

married in 1904, for translations 

sometimes led to 

peculiar spellings on the 

cards! Of course, Ernest’s 

income came mainly from 

illustration work he did for 

books and from the sales of 

watercolours he painted of 

Llangollen and area scenes. 

The postcards he left, 

though, are a distinctive 

and important legacy. 

Christopher Burrows has 

provided a fitting tribute, 

and plenty of Ernest’s postcards 

are pictured in the 

book. Some - such as his 

‘Mixed bathing’ and ‘Full up 

at...’ have something of the 

flavour of Scottish artist 

Cynicus’s cartoons, and 

Both side of Ernest Burrows’ classic 

postcard ‘Travelling in Wales’, no. 230 in 

the ‘Everton’ series 

Burrows’ gently poking fun 

at the natives of his adopted 

country definitely mirrors 

the style of the Tayportbased 

artist/publisher. 

* available at Llangollen Museum 

for £12.99 or from Christopher 

Burrows, Fernlea, Market 

Street, Llangollen, Denbighshire 

LL20 8PY at £15.99 

inc. p/p. 

chriseburrows@tiscali.co.uk 

Bookshelf 

A selection of recent titles: 

British Postcards of The 

First World War (Peter 

Doyle) £5.99 (+ £1.25 UK 

post) 

Sussex Railway Stations 

on old postcards (James 

Young) £3.95 (+ 80p post) 

Postcards from Utopia 

(Andrew Roberts) £8.99 (+ 

£1.25 post) 

Ask for a full list of available 

postcard-related 

books. 

Reflections of a Bygone 

Age, 15 Debdale Lane, 

Keyworth, Nottingham 

NG12 5HT 

Below: two examples of 

Frank Burridge’s distinctive 

artwork on his ‘Dalkeith’ 

series of postcards. Some 

of the railway ones are now 

particularly sought-after. 

Obituaries 

Frank Burridge, who died on 

May 30th at the age of 80, 

was well-known in the postcard 

trade. In the 1980s he 

designed and published the 

famous Dalkeith series. 

These were in sets of six 

and covered many aspects 

of early railways, in particular 

railway companies such 

as Somerset and Dorset. 

Many of the sets were his 

own original paintings, 

while others were taken 

from old posters. He followed 

up the 103 sets in this 

series with Classic Posters, 

which ran to 52 sets, and 

then began a further series 

titled Cards of Style. These 

covered classic cars, various 

sports and others. Later 

Frank issued some unlimited 

series. He was meticulous 

in the production of his 

cards and his researches 

took him to many libraries 

and archives, including York 

Railway Museum, where he 

was a regular visitor. His 

enthusiasm for the job in 

hand was reflected in the 

accuracy of his work; every 

detail of his subject mattered 

and he built up a fine 

reputation. 

Frank also became 

famous for the railway 

museum he created in the 

1970s, the Big Four Railway 

Museum in Bournemouth. 

This was bulging with railway 

artefacts, not least 

Frank’s collection of locomotive 

nameplates. This 

attracted collectors from far 

and wide and was full of 

treasures for the collector, 

even football enthusiasts 

who come to drool over the 

nameplates of LNER locomotive 

‘Manchester United’. 

This led to Frank producing 

a fine illustrated 

book “Nameplates of the 

Big Four”. In his later years 

he was still producing railway 

literature. He will be 

long remembered - Garnet 

Langton. 

Ian Aspinall of Stevenage 

has died. He and his wife 

Patricia were frequent visitors 

to Bloomsbury, York 

and Bipex, 

and had a 

keen interest 

in 

Stevenage 

postcards 

and child 

r e n ’ s 

artists. 


Picture Postcard 

Puzzles 

Another selection of puzzles for you to identify, all on 

picture postcards sent in by readers. If you know the 

location, tell us (write, fax, email or phone) and give 

yourself the chance of a prize. First authentic identification 

of each puzzle wins you a choice of: pack of modern 

social history cards, a free classified ad in PPM 

(max. 25 words), a Reflections pen, one of the Yesterday’s 

series of books based on old postcards, or a set of 

Reflections Postcard Centenary cards (state which 

you’d like when writing). 

If you have a postcard (or cards) you’d like identified, 

send in, enclosing two first-class or three secondclass 

stamps per card submitted (for administration 

costs). List any identifiable clues on a separate piece of 

paper, and write your name in pencil on the back of the 

postcard. Email scans/photocopies not accepted. 

Address for all correspondence: PPM, 15 Debdale Lane, 

Keyworth, Nottingham NG12 5HT. 

375/2 “The 

Crown Inn” lies at the end of the road 

on this postcard view of a village scene. But where? (Doug 

Forton collection) 

375/3 An Aerofilms-published postcard without a caption. 

Note the church to the right and the main road running 

past (Jim Howie collection) 

375/1 The postcard looks marvellous, but the only clue to 

its location is the shop name ‘A. Hibbard, wholesaler 

and...’ on the right. Where could this be? (Simon Smith collection) 

June results 

Dave Hill placed 374/1 as North Street in Marazion, Cornwall, 

with “The Cutty Sark” public house on the right of 

the picture. Helena Butcher reckoned 374/2 was Ely and 

Bob Appleton was first to point out Tonbridge as the location 

of 374/3. He felt the event might have something to do 

with cricket and/or the local public school. “The Rose & 

Crown” is still there. Most of the buildings in the misty distance 

were demolished in the 1960s, but all the other 

buildings seen on the postcard remain. Mark Bailey 

tracked down 374/4 to the garrison town of Fermoy in Co. 

Cork, which today is a small industrial town of about 5,000 

people. The scene featured was in Queen’s Square (now 

called Pearse Square) at the end of Fermoy Bridge. On 

374/6, Stuart Green revealed that the pub in the picture 

was the “Fleece Inn” at 95 Green Road, at the corner of 

Beckett Street (now Lincoln Green Road) in Leeds. Paul 

Gain identified 374/7 as Alton, Hampshire, while June 

Lamont spotted 374/9 as Barnardo’s Homes at Barkingside. 

Bob Pattison was quickest to recognise 374/11 as the 

hamlet of Percuil on the River Fal near St. Mawes. Ian 

Monk located 374/14 as Duton Hill, near Great Dunmow in 

Essex, and Bob Appleton was on the ball again with 

374/15, the annual procession in Boulogne of Notre Dame 

des Flots passing the Church of St. Nicholas in La Grande 

Rue. Liz McKernan explained that the statue being carried 

represents Our Lady in a boat. Christine Leveridge told us 

374/17 featured Dewsbury Town Hall on the occasion of 

the King and Queen’s visit to the town on 10th July 1912. 

From April, Barrie Lane identified 372/2 as Market 

Place, Faversham (the inn is still there and a delight, he 

advertised!) and Colin White homed in on 372/9 as Drighlington, 

West Yorkshire, best-known, he asserts, for the 

nearby Civil War battle of Adwalton Moor. 

375/4 A fine view of “The Bungalow Cafe” and three vintage 

motors. Where was it? (Richard Breach collection) 

375/5 Where was “The Old Priory Garage”? A car with registration 

XY 5815 is being filled up with petrol, and a sign 

advertises Carless Coalene Mixture. This village scene 

looks pretty recognisable. (Len Whittaker collection) 


Picture Postcard 

Puzzles 

375/6 A conveyance pulls up outside “The Cherry Tree” 

pub (D. Sandland collection) 

375/7 This postcard was addressed to a lady in Darlington 

and the message included the information “we are 3 miles 

off the station”. Assuming the view shows the sender’s village, 

can anyone place it? (Verna Palmer collection) 

375/10 These two postcards above show long river or harbour 

buildings on the opposite bank, super small sailboats 

and indicate a nearby beach (John Woodford collection) 

375/11 (left) Can anyone 

pinpoint the 

whereabouts of “The 

Union Hotel”, which 

sold Usher’s Ales? 

(Richard Roberts collection) 

375/8 “This is where we live but the other side” ran the 

message on this uncaptioned postcard. The parade of 

shops includes Veasey (Reliable Boot Stores), Emerson 

(Refreshment Tea Rooms) and J. Woods’ drapers and 

milliners (Sheila France collection) 

375/12 (right) Yet another 

pub! Postcard publishers 

left lots of these cards 

uncaptioned, presumably 

because they thought the 

pub name was sufficient 

recognition. Not for us 

today, though! This is the 

“Albert Inn”, which sold 

Hancock’s Flagon Ales & 

Stout (Chris Doble collection) 


375/9 (left) Top Paris postcard 

publishing firm Neurdein Freres produced 

this card of the French president’s visit to England in 

July 1903. The crowd scene was photographed in the 

‘Guildhall Quarter’, outside J. Rutherford’s shop (“left over 

cloth bought to any amount”) at no. 167. Which town or 

city, though? (Helen Binns collection)

The Nottingham Postcard Show 

Postcards, Cigarette Cards, 

Ephemera & Paper Collectables 

Tuesday 6th July 2010 

Harvey Hadden 

Sports Centre 

Wigman Road 

Bilborough 

Nottingham 

NG8 4PB 

 

 

85 

tables 

 

Open 3pm - 8pm 

Refreshments 

Easy Free Parking 

Postcard Display 

Admission £1 

Old and 

Modern Cards 

Postcard dealers:* Jack Stasiak * David Calvert * Rosalie 

Cards * Peter Robards * Gareth Burgess & Fiona Gebbie * John 

Priestley * West End Stamp Co. * Terry Revitt * Simon Smith * David Williamson * Sylvia Jones * 

David Mouser * Sally Dawkins * Mark Bown * Francis Wortley * John Forrester * Kevin Ramsdale * 

Mike Huddy * Magpie Cards * David Ottewell * Kevin Harrison * Andrew George * Nick Kelsey * Lee 

Marchant * Alan Champion * Clive Champion * Fred Butler * Rod Jewell * Barrie Bentley * Mike 

Enjoy a visit to the pleasant Harvey Hadden 

complex, with its comfortable refreshments lounge, 

excellent lighting, and masses and masses of old 

and modern postcards! 

A free postcard for 

every visitor! Latest in 

the ‘Nottingham 

Trams’ series! 

* including 

postcard 

display 

Fineron * Brian Lund * Pete Middleton * Hava Getz * David 

Lapworth * Greg Pos * Ann Gray * Clifton Curios 

blue type = moderns specialist 

and.... Rob Roy Albums with accessories 

plus...plus... 

Reflections of a Bygone Age with books 

and magazines plus...plus... 

many Cigarette Card dealers 

By car: via M1 or Nottingham Ring Road. By train: to Nottingham Midland. By bus: No. 28 Nottingham City Transport 

bus from Victoria bus station or Parliament Street every 10 minutes (£2.50 return). 

Enquiries: Reflections of a Bygone Age 0115 937 4079

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