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� 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
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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.
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Keyworth, Nottingham NG12 5HT.
368/1 Does anyone recognise this street scene of terraced
houses, with a tram wending its way downhill? (Mark
Bown collection)
November
results
Brian Lowther
identified 367/1 as
a hotel just outside
Conwy in
North Wales,
close to the Sychnant
pass. The
Oakwood Park
Hotel (right) was
built in the 1930s and used as a school during World
war Two (Brian was there!). It is now a complex of
country residences. Chris Jackson was first to place
367/3 as Beoley, near Redditch, while Terry Blud located
367/4 as Hadley, Shropshire. The area is now part of
Telford New Town and the pub on the postcard demolished
in 1961. Peter Kennedy reckoned 367/7 was Bearwood,
Birmingham, while 367/8 was recognised by
Nigel Bown as Birchington-on-Sea. The arch on 367/15
was erected in Sheffield for the Royal visit of 12 July
1905 (King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra), Mark Bailey
told us. Finally, Gerald Lamont was quickest to spot
367/19 as Fakenham, looking down Bridge Street from
the Market Place. Still plenty to identify from last month
- have another look!
From October, Alf Carney placed 366/20 as the
Cerebos Salt Factory at Greatham, near Hartlepool - it
produced Cerebos and Saxo salt as well as Bisto gravy.
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368/2 This postcard features a service by a war memorial
in a churchyard. Where? (Nigel Bown collection)
368/3 The banner on top of the high-flying decoration
appears to read ‘Mission Bridge...’ .The cobbled street is
on a steep hill, too (Colin McLean collection)
368/4 (above) This
postcard of Jacques’
Family Hotel was published
in Reed’s Pictorial
series. Can someone
give us the location?
(Peter Snartt
collection)
368/5 (left) A Singer
sewing shop is on
the corner of this
distinctively-architectured
street in
the 1930s, with the
shops of Leo and
A. Butler & Co. to
its left (Doug Forton
collection)
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