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. July 1904
© 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’
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I love this – the words, the history behind the card… It seems to open up a window on a story as yet untold.
Also, my own house goes by the name Rose Cottage!
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what a coincidence Kerry- made for you and your innovative prompt
I LOVE this! Takes me back to the time when written communication was reasonably swift, and the cost not as dear as in these complicated times. Love the postcard too.
old fashioned texts – picture postcards for birthday, Christmas and holiday messages – wrote the poem to fit the space which was a challenge in itself!