Day: July 29, 2016

Getaway

Published on by Laura Bloomsbury4 Comments
londonbridge_postcard
July 1904

Dear Mr. Underwood
Rose Cottage…how good
that sounds far from the Strand
London bridge and our grand
old city. Hope you like this card
sending by way of a safeguard
for our usual holiday away at
Margate. Put out the welcome mat
6.15 at the railway
See you Saturday

Yours sincerely
Sidney H.G.

© Laura Granby 2016

I have 3 albums of postcards that my grandfather collected as a boy from 1904-10. This London bridge he would have crossed countless times before it was sold in 1971 & rebuilt in Arizona. He did not finish his postcard to Mr Underwood so I have completed it for Kerry’s poetry challenge: ‘Lets send a postcard’