Friday 27 April 2012

Ashford, Middlesex, Flower Show Fete 1914 and Greenwich Park Bank Holiday c1905

Ashford, Middlesex, Flower Show Fete 1914 and Greenwich Park Bank Holiday circa 1905. The theme for the Sepia Saturday blog this week is May Day related so here are a few postcards showing people enjoying their day off work a century ago. The Ashford postcards are by W. H. Applebee of Ashford. I don't know who published the Greenwich park postcard. Click the postcards to enlarge. Beneath the Greenwich postcard are some close-ups.




Tuesday 24 April 2012

Gracechurch Street, City Of London c1904 & c1930

Gracechurch Street, City Of London circa 1904 and circa 1930. Nothing has survived from the 1904 postcard in the present Google Street View. The aerial view postcard below that was taken in about 1930. Gracechurch Street goes from the large white building in the foreground (the present day House of Fraser department store) to the middle top of the picture. Wren's Monument to the Great Fire of London is at the bottom right. Click the postcards to enlarge.




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Friday 20 April 2012

Raynes Park, south-west London, Carters Tested Seeds Factory c1913

Raynes Park, south-west London, Carters Tested Seeds Factory circa 1913. The Google Street View shows the approximate location of the Carters Tested Seeds factory in Raynes Park. The factory closed in 1970 and was replaced by the current housing estate. More old photos of Carters Tested Seeds can be found here.

Postcard by W H Applebee of Ashford. Click the photo to enlarge. For more old pictures visit the Sepia Saturday blog.



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Wednesday 18 April 2012

Crowthorne, Berkshire, Church Road c1912

Crowthorne, Berkshire, Church Road circa 1912. Crowthorne is a village in South-east Berkshire. This scene appears to have changed little and the road is unmade. Postcard by W H Appleee of Ashford. Click the postcard to enlarge.



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Sunday 15 April 2012

White Star Liner RMS Titanic 1912

To commemorate the sinking of the Titanic on this day a hundred years ago I've posted my only Titanic postcard. This example was posted nearly a month after the disaster. I imagine there will be a lot of blogs mentioning the Titanic today. Click the postcard to enlarge.

Friday 13 April 2012

Brooklands Flying Grounds, Weybridge, Surrey, c1908-1913

Brooklands Flying Grounds, Weybridge, Surrey, circa 1908-1913. Brooklands motor racing circuit was opened in 1907. It also housed one of Britain's first aerodromes, opened in 1908, where aviation pioneers would try out their latest aircraft. Later there were flying schools and aircraft factories on the site. Much of the site still exists and is owned by the Brooklands Museum. In the bottom two postcards you can see part of the banked racing circuit that Brooklands was famous for.

These postcards were published by Andrew Smith of Surbiton and W. H. Applebee of Ashford. The aeroplanes in the Andrew Smith postcard (AS113) look a little earlier (c1908) than the WHA postcards (c1912). Smith was producing postcards from about 1903, eight years before Applebee who started in 1911. Smith continued producing postcards until the late 1920s. Click the postcards to enlarge.

Please visit the Sepia Saturday blog where the theme this week is 'Flight'.

Thursday 12 April 2012

Farnham Royal, Buckinghamshire, c1910

Farnham Royal, Buckinghamshire, circa 1910. The pub on the right, The Forresters Arms, is much altered and is now called The Forresters. Postcard by Young and Co of Teddington. Click the postcard to enlarge.



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Sunday 8 April 2012

Guildford, Surrey, Market Street c1910

Guildford, Surrey, Market Street c1910. Postcard by Young & Co of Teddington. Click the postcard to enlarge.



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Wednesday 4 April 2012

Eastcote, Middlesex, Field End Parade c1930

Eastcote, Middlesex, Field End Parade circa 1930. Postcard by Charles Mitchell. Click the postcard to enlarge.



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