Leicester Infirmary - Children's Hospital

A picture from The Children's Hospital at The Leicester Infirmary (later to become the Leicester Royal Infirmary where I was born and had my tonsils out at about age 4 and remember being told by a nurse that if I continued to cry I would not be allowed visitors but it did hurt and I had just woken up after the operation so there was some excuse. Adults can be so cruel.)

Striking Young Lady - 1939

What strikes me first about this postcard from 1939, apart from the striking young lady with her smile, is how so much is packed into a corner of one bedroom. The items now look like what an elderly person might have round them in their retirement home where their bedside is their only private place: plants, old pictures, ornaments. She does not look English, but more German - guessing from the hairstyle.

Towel Over Shoulder

Is it a symbol of a shared trade or are they pretending to be on the beach?

Smart Man

The original postcard was so faded... but by darkening and adding contrast, and the removal of some dark blotches, this young man from Edwardian times now looks resplendent again. Only his eyes still look pale, but maybe they were pale to begin with.

Beyond Living Memory

This has the look of a privately made postcard - not one for selling commercially. It shows a younger lady, exploring and enjoying something on a walk, while her companion looks on. It is a walk in the country beyond living memory.

Bishop of Southwark

This postcard posted in 1907 and published by Russell & Sons of Baker Street London, shows Edward Stuart Talbot, first Bishop of Southwark.

Bishop Talbot was born in 1844 the son of a QC. He Studied at Charterhouse and Oxford and was ordained at 26. He was a follower of the Oxford movement, and acknowledged the Tractarians as his spiritual fathers. 1st Warden of Keble College. Bishop of Rochester in 1895. He organised the creation of the Diocese of Southwark in 1905 by splitting the extensive Diocese of Rochester - Southwark was to include the county of London south of the Thames and East and Mid Surrey. He became the first bishop of Southwark from 1905 to 1911, and then Bishop of Winchester for twelve years until retirement. He died in 1934.

Potter's Wheel

A Tuck's Post Card in the British Industries Series - "In the Potteries".

Sent in 1906 from Sally to V, it says "This is you in 50 years hence."

1956 must have seemed an unimaginable distance away back at the turn of the century, but somehow 1956 has come and gone.

A Moment In Time

Lets hope it all adds up or it could be more than a moment.

Sunday Best

A group of men dressed in their Sunday Best. Most have flowers in lapels, one holds a cornet, another a bell. They have all taken off their caps, and hats for the picture. But there is nothing to tell who they are or why they are gathered together. Worth expanding to look at the faces as there are a few interesting characters.

Les Clowns

Poor Monsieur Auguste! He is not a happy clown. What upset him? I just cannot tell.

This postcard was sent in 1903. The majority of my old postcards come from the years 1903 - 1905. I would guess during those years people liked to collect them and keep them in large albums, and many got preserved. Monsieur Auguste and his great sadness is not forgotten. Even though it is So So Fake.