Category Archives: Postcards

Wait for it. 

Inspired by Daisy’s exceedingly helpful piece of research on the location of the image on one of yesterday’s postcards, it once again seems appropriate to make a change for today’s. So here we have a colour image showing the cathedral … Continue reading →

Two cards today, both of which were bought, along with a couple of others, in the early 1980s for a few francs from a seller outside Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, so I suppose these are what, decades later when … Continue reading →

Five unusual German postcards today, all written between 10th March & 30th May 1916 by the same writer.  The first two images tell a cautionary tale for all soldiers – oh, and the smudge is original,… 

Zeppelin caught in searchlights somewhere over Blighty.  One wonders whether the original caption, which, if you look closely, has been erased and overprinted, gave away a place name (and thus the searchlights’ location), and had to be changed?

As son leaves for France, father looks stoic, and sister extends a claw. 

The text basically says ‘Prayers in a Belgian church being used as a bivouac by German soldiers’.  Well, there are two rifles, and as the congregation prays and one soldier sleeps, has the other joined in with the prayers?  Is … Continue reading →