Firstly a big Happy Birthday and best wishes to Sepia Saturday on reaching its 100th birthday - and here's to the next 100! I really had hoped to theme for this one but have not had much success. So, instead I'm sharing a vignette style, vintage postcard called The First Walk in Wellingborough, Northamptonshre.The postcard was published by Wrench and dates back to 1908.
Wellingborough, The First Walk, c.1908
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I come from Rutland which borders Northamptonshire and knew Wellingborough well at one time. I wonder what it looks like now.
ReplyDeleteAnd a calm and peaceful walk it looked...
ReplyDeleteJust the kind of walk I’d enjoy!
ReplyDeleteA nice old postcard of Wellingborough, which is just up the road from where I live.
ReplyDeleteHave a look at my collection at www.oldstratforduponavon.com/northamptonshire
What a beautiful serene location for the baby's first outing.
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A beautiful card, a simpler day and time. It would be a great scene to enlarge and frame in a nursery!
ReplyDeleteAren't those trees and the canopy they create lovely? I wonder if it was a weekday, seeing that there were only 4 people out and about.
ReplyDeleteGreat card - I wonder how it acquired that name. Thanks for being such a firm supporter of Sepia Saturday over the last couple of years.
ReplyDeleteThat's a very typical postcard scene from around 1910, and most appropriate for the Sepia Saturday centennial. I'm interested in your mention of the Wrench series of postcards, as I have images (not originals) of several from Derbyshire. One of them is a view of the River Derwent at Derby, similar to those featured here, posted in February 1907. It is number 13875, which suggests not only that were a huge number in the series, but also that they must have started publishing fairly early in that decade.
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