An old postcard of the lower end of Front Street in Chester-le-Street in Co. Durham, blended with a modern image of Bridge End, the Methodist church and Newcastle Road heading North.
Images combined using GIMP.

#History #Durham #Chester-le-Street #Postcard #TimeTravel #OldPostcard #England #NEEngland #UK #GIMP

I know I’ve posted this #oldpostcard before but thought I do love a Tuck #postcard. This is an “Oilette” of the Old Cloth Hall, now @WBerksMuseum, in #Newbury. Find out more about the Tuck postcards over at bit.ly/2Z6UvEj

An #oldpostcard from the collection showing #Thatcham c.1930. A lot of #history again in one scene, the Kings Head, Tomlin Fountain, the original A4, and much more. https://nickbits.co.uk/blog/

An #oldpostcard today with lots of #history in this one. This is of the Great West Road (the A4) in #Thatcham. The Queen's Head on the left, New Inn (Prancing Horse) on the right & the Old Bluecoat School in the middle. Dates to 1907 or earlier. https://nickbits.co.uk/blog/2017/02/thatcham-pub-history/

A #oldpostcard from the collection, looking down Thatcham High Street (also known as Crown Street, west Street, Cheap Street, etc.). The postcard was posted 1909. On the left there is the White Hart, Crown Inn and the Cricketers, at the far end (number 36) was the original Crown Inn. Remember this was the main road at this time. #history

I love pre-1918 postcards. Especially when I find more of them from/to the same people.
It's like preserving some fracture of their lives.

More about them on my Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/CpXowP3oxXh/

#philately #postcard #oldpostcard #poland #warsaw #russianempire

Continuing the mills theme here is a c.1920 #oldpostcard from my #oldpostcards collection of the south mill, what everyone calls Ham Mill today, as seen from the Kennet and Avon Canal. Now classed as in #Newbury, original boundary was in #Thatcham. The #history is far more complex though, see https://nickbits.co.uk/blog/2017/11/ham-mill-or-mills/.

#oldpostcard #Ireland circa 1908 #romance #emigration #IrishHistory
Reads:
" What will you do love

What will you do love when I am going
with white sail flowing the seas beyond?
What will you do love when waves divide us
and friends may chide us for being fond.
'tho waves divide us and friends be chiding,
in faith abiding I'll still be true; and I'll pray for thee on the stormy ocean,
in deep devotion - that's what I'll do.

#valentinesday a little early or I'll be too late.
#oldpostcard #Ireland early 1900s #proverbs
"A willing heart is half the battle"
#romance

#valentinesday a little early or I'll be too late.
#oldpostcard #Ireland circa 1908 #dadjokes
"Old age gives good advice, when it's no longer able to set a bad example"

#valentinesday a little early or I'll be too late.
#oldpostcard #Ireland Date: possibly1960s #dadjokes
"And the Parson said Give and take."

#valentinesday a little early or I'll be too late.
#oldpostcard #Ireland circa 1906 #dadjokes
She; "People are saying we are engaged"
He: "Well, I've had worse things said about me"
She: "Yes, but I haven't"

No #oldpostcard today but a book illustration. A drawing of #Midgham Chapel from c.1802. It was pulled down in the 1860's and replaced a short distance away with a new church. #history

#OnePlaceWednesday This #OldPostcard of a bicycle taxi was taken in #Wintringham Useful for passengers travelling to the #railway station (now closed) in #Rillington #OnePlaceStudy nearly 3 miles away. No date or details included though happy to have the image. #OnePlaceTransport #LocalHistory

#OnePlaceWednesday This #OldPostcard of a bicycle taxi was taken in #Wintringham Useful for passengers travelling to the #railway station (now closed) in #Rillington nearly 3 miles away. Unfortunately it has no details of date included. #OnePlaceTransport #LocalHistory

#OnePlaceWednesday This #OldPostcard of a bicycle taxi was taken in #Wintringham Useful for passengers travelling to the #railway station (now closed) in #Rillington nearly 3 miles away #OnePlaceTransport #LocalHistory

An #oldpostcard for today, post marked 1910 is of #Newbury, #Berkshire. The wooden bridge spanning the River Kennet, which apparently had shops covering it, was swept away in floods in 1623/4. It was rebuilt but swept away again in 1726. Rebuilt and swept away again finally in 1769 the first stone of a new bridge was placed resulting in what we see today, a 3 arched bridge although only 1 is visible. #history

Todays #oldpostcard shows a rather busy #Newbury Market Place with the statue of Queen Victoria which was erected in 1903. Postcard is postmarked 1905. #history #oldpostcards

Todays #oldpostcard from my collection shows the statue of Queen Victoria in #Newbury Market Place. The postcard view dates to 1903 to 1905. The Burgess sign changed in 1905 to Beynon. Placed there in 1903, paid for by George Sanger, a local man who became a rather successful showman (his biography is here https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209612/mode/2up). #history #Berkshire

Not an #oldpostcard today but an illustration of Thatcham Parish Church. This illustration originally appearing in Views of Reading Abbey by Charles Tomkins (colour version) and later Barfield's #history of #Thatcham book is seen looking from the North in c.1805, before the 1857 restoration. That is a porch, now gone and stood on Church Lane. More on my @nickbits blog https://nickbits.co.uk/blog/2020/04/short-history-of-st-marys-church/