Sepia Saturday 150 - Dublin

From the picture posted in this week's Sepia Saturday I have picked out Dublin as the theme and have included a few vintage postcards. As with most major cities I would imagine the streets shown now bear very little resemblance to those shown in the postcards, and I suspect the trams have been replaced long ago with cars, cars and more cars.

 O'Connell Street, Dublin

Sackville Street, Dublin

St. Stephen's Green Park, Dublin

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

    

Vintage postcards of Dublin

For this week's Postcard Friendship Friday I thought I'd share some vintage postcards of Dublin that I picked up a couple of months back, which as with so many others remain in the 'to be processed' pile. Most of these old postcards have been written but not actually posted, so unfortunately I am unable to share the date, but would guess the first one is probably 1930's, and the other three probably 1900's - 1920's. I particularly like the trams on the wide, but relatively uncrowded streets.

O'Connell Street, Dublin

Phoenix Park, Dublin

Sackville Street, Dublin

St. Stephen's Green, Dublin

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

    

Sepia Saturday - vintage postcards of Bristol

For this week's Sepia Saturday posting I have quickly scanned in some sepia vintage postcards of Bristol that I came across a few weeks ago. I still have a backlog of some 300 to process but these ones managed to percolate their way to the top. They are quite curious postcards in that when I first looked at them they seemed a bit dull, but the more I looked the more was revelaed. I played around with the scanning process a little to see if I could enhance the contrast of the images but in the ended decided to leave them in their natural state.

All 3 postcards were published by Delittle, Fenwick and Co., York. They date back to 1905 and were all sent from Pollie to a Miss F Coulier over the space of 3 months (September - November 1905). Interestingly the messages on the reverse of the postcards get shorter with the one in November bearing just a few words.

Mya favourite is the Tramway Centre, although the Clifton Suspension Bridge also holds a certain charm.

Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristol, c,1905

Promenade, Clifton Downs, Bristol, c1905

Tramway Centre, Bristol, c.1905

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