Category Archives: Postcard

Wedding photograph of Francis John KEAN and Mary SAVILE in Leeds in 1909 – are you related?

Posted on March 14, 2019 by

Another old wedding photograph postcard find I am trying to reunite also has useful clues written on the back to help with trying to identify the people in it, which could hopefully lead to it being reunited with a family … Continue reading →

Posted in 14 Blandford Grove, KEAN, Leeds, Old Photograph, One Name Study, Postcard, SAVILE, World War 1, Yorkshire | 4 Comments

Wedding photograph of Hubert L DOWN and Ivy Stark LAKEMAN 1928 – are you related?

Posted on March 6, 2019 by

I have recently found three individual old wedding photograph postcards all of different couples, but they all have useful clues written on the back to help with trying to identify the people in them, which could hopefully lead to them … Continue reading →

Posted in Cornwall, DOWN, LAKEMAN, Old Photograph, One Name Study, Postcard, St Germans Cornwall, Wedding photograph | Leave a comment

Just a few names to get me started – do you have a CARTLIDGE connection?

Posted on February 26, 2019 by

A recent old photograph of a group of people provided many clues when I turned it over as the reverse of the postcard is absolutely covered in handwritten names and signatures! It was taken by the Photographers A & L … Continue reading →

Posted in A & L SLINGSBY Photographer, Burslem Staffordshire, CARTLIDGE, Grange-over-Sands, Lithographic Artist, Old Photograph, One Name Study, Postcard, Stoke on Trent | 1 Comment

Smashing School photograph with lots of handwritten names – possibly in the West Ham area of Essex?

Posted on January 5, 2019 by

Another great recent old photograph postcard find was a lovely image of young men and women obviously taken at a School, as the teacher / headmaster is clearly wearing his gown in the front middle row and some of the … Continue reading →

Posted in BEGGS, BELLAMY, CLEMENTS, DANCER, MASSEY, Old Photograph, One Name Study, Postcard, RIDOUT, ROGERS, School photograph, THOMAS, West Ham Essex | 1 Comment

UPDATE: With Mr & Mrs A R ABRAM’s Compliments

Posted on November 9, 2018 by

Update 1st April 2019: This lovely photograph has now been reunited with the Great nephew of Alexander and Dorothy ABRAM who lives in the USA – he was so pleased to receive this photograph as he had not seen it before and … Continue reading →

Posted in ABRAM, Anglesey, ASPINELL, Merchant Seaman, Old Photographs, Pendeen Cornwall, Postcard, South Stack Lighthouse, Trinity, Wales, World War 2 | Leave a comment

Lest we Forget…the unknown faces of WW1

Posted on November 6, 2018 by

With Sunday 11th November 2018 fast approaching marking the 100th anniversary of the end of WW1 remembrance is very much in everyone’s mind this week and I wanted to share some of my collection of postcards showing the unknown faces … Continue reading →

Posted in Battle of the Somme, Cenotaph, Old Photographs, Postcard, World War 1, WW1 Photograph, WW1 postcard | 1 Comment

Beautiful colour tinted old postcards

Posted on November 1, 2018 by

As you all know I love my old postcards and was really pleased to find these beautiful coloured tinted ones amongst a recent bundle of old cards that I purchased and thought it would be lovely to share them with … Continue reading →

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