Postcards
In the early part of the '80s, I was working with Marconi Radar & for some unknown reason I started collecting postcards & had them shown in the office. Thankfully, some of my former colleagues, one read & kept for a while, gave me their postcards.
In Feb '87, I was made redundant so decided for safekeeping to store the postcards at my parents' home. My Dad started putting some of them into an album & dependant on where they came from, he listed the country.
Between '87 to a year ago, I simply collected them but put them in a bag. Autumn '07, I finally got round to putting them in albums & doing so was enjoyable. I like pictures & to this date, I haven't been to many of countries so it's nice to see pictures from that area.
Below you'll see a group of them as I've scanned some but due to editing, sizing & reducing their memory space, the end result isn't as good as the original postcard however I hope you like looking at them.
Instead of going into any depth with them, I mention a few.
A wee while ago my Mum gave me a number of postcards that she & my Dad decided to keep & not throw away. Sally's Nan also did the same thing & its interesting looking at cards that were taken many years ago. Many of the postcards were bought before WWII & one of them is a coloured picture of Blackpool. You might think that sounds odd but wait until you see it.
Another postcard has a picture of that appears to be the eldest man, Zaro Agha. My Dad did see this Turkish man & from what I gather, he saw him in a circus. According to reports, he died in 1934 & his age is circa 164.
Prince Charles looks a bit younger & should be as that postcard comes from the year he became Prince of Wales, 1969.
If you've got some postcards & no longer want them, please e-mail me. If however you've got postcards & would like to swap them with other postcards, then again, please e-mail me. E-mail address is below.
Postcard Links
Postcard Pages shows the history of postcards to modern day. It also gives details of how to date a postcard to beginners guide.
This is what this Postcrossing says on it's home page; "send a postcard and receive one back from a random person somewhere in the world!".
Some of us who live in parts of East Anglia decided to get together & chat, swap & discuss things related to postcards. This was written after the meeting & pix are included. Click here.
Site Links
NB If you do e-mail, notice I've changed @ to AT to stop possible e-mail spammers so before you send, swap it back.
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