Category Archives: Postcards

And so we come to the last Weekly Postcard, which is a mega-bonanza of a postcard post, and brings the total number of cards I have shared with you since we began the Daily Postcard series seventeen weeks ago to … Continue reading →

The penultimate Weekly Postcard features dreams of home and parting, which, as we all know, is such sweet sorrow.

A handful of classic humorous British cards this week.  Products of a bygone era, they really don’t require any accompanying text from me.

On 18th August 1917, at about three in the afternoon, according to the official report, a spark from a kitchen fire ignited a pile of straw and burned down half a city. 

Oh, I do like a romantic poem.  And these two look suitably well-matched, wouldn’t you say?

A day late this week, to allow you time to check out this week’s other posts.  The men in charge featured heavily on Great War postcards from all the warring nations. 

Now, I’m not entirely sure why this bloke is seemingly adrift in a punt with his inamorata.