Sepia Saturday 212 - vintage postcard of snow in Jesmond Dene, Newcastle-on-Tyne

It's been a while since I've managed to find time to post to Sepia Saturday, so hopefully my post today will make up for my weeks of absence. We've not had any snow here in the south of the UK whatsoever this winter, but inspired by Alan's prompt of a skier, I have dug out a snow related vintage postcard.

Vintage postcard of Jesmond Dene, Newcastle-on-Tyne

However, as we have not had any snow, but almost every other season in the past 24 hours, I have also shared some vintage postcards of Jesmond Dene in different seasons.

Vintage postcard of the Stepping Stones, Jesmond Dene, Newcastle-on-Tyne

Vintage postcard of the Stepping Stones, Jesmond Dene, Newcastle-on-Tyne

As usual 100's of vintage postcards on my web site

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

I know that snow causes huge problems for many, but I have to confess that I REALLY like it. I worked from home today, the kids did not go to school, and it actually feels a bit like winter at last. I thought as my updates in this blog had not been as regular as I'd have liked this year that I thought I'd do a blog post on vintage postcards featuring snow that don't mention the word Christmas.

 Vintage panel postcard of a church in the snow, published by C.W.Faulkner

Vintage postcard of the Stepping Stones, Jesmond Dene, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Vintage postcard of snow in the Palace Yard, Gloucester, published by Burrow

Vintage panl postcard of a winter scene, published by C.W.Faulkner

Vintage olio postcard of a winter scene

Vintage postcard of the river in winter, Stratford-on-Avon

    

As usual 100's more vintage postcards on my web site

Vintage postcard advent calendar - December 18th

For today's advent calendar postcard, here's another of those odd 'multi-theme' postcards. I think either the holly or the snowy scene would have worked well in their own way, but to combine them seems odd to me.

Vintage Christmas Greeting postcard published by Stewart and Woolf, c.1908

As always, 100's more vintage postcards on my web site

    

Vintage postcard advent calendar - December 5th

Wow, we're already on 5th December - this month is just slipping away. I'm posting this one up a few hours early as we're off to a pre-Christmas party so just in case I over indulge in the festive ale, I thought it sensible to get this done beforehand. This is another of my favourites but unfortunately I don't know much about it. The publisher is 'PF' but it's not been posted so again I have no idea of date, but would assume it dates back to around the early part of the last century.

As always, 100's more vintage postcards on my web site, and the full vintage postcards advent calendar can also be found there

    

Where's all the snow we were promised?

My kids all got very excited earlier this week when they heard there was going to be snow this week, and no doubt are expecting their school to be closed allowing them to enjoy hours of snowman building and snowballing like last winter. However, apart from the odd flek around lunchtime we saw nothing so I suspect when they get home from school they'll be disappointed. Whilst I can't make it snow, I can share this snowy vintage postcard from 1907. It's deliberately not an overtly Christmas postcard (yet) as I want to reserve those firmly for December.

A Snow Idyll, in the Palace Yard, Gloucester, published by Burrow

As usual, 100's more vintage postcards on my web site