Happy Christmas No. 3

 c.1910-1920

c.1901-1910

Pre-1914 card.

Posted in 1913.

Posted from the Transvaal, South Africa, from A.J. Harding who was 'out here making a fortune'.

Ski-ing in (Vintage) Style

Happy Christmas No. 2

American card, I'm guessing pre-1920ish.

Sent Christmas 1912.

Pre-1914 card.

Pre-1914 card.

Sent Christmas 1911.

Pauper in Court for Giving Rations to Her Sister

From the Preston Pilot, March 5th, 1842.

This article took my breath away, it reads like an episode from a Dickens novel.

Happy Christmas No. 1

Pre-1914 card, it is likely that it was not produced as a Christmas Card but that the greeting was added later.

Posted December 24th, 1906.

Posted from Bergen, Norway, December 1958.

Facial Hair lost in Gas Explosion

From the Preston Chronicle, January 3rd, 1846.

 

Mr Gillibrand appears to have been relatively fortunate; other accounts of gas explosions which I have read so far often report a fatality.

The Perils of Third Class Travel

 

From the Preston Chronicle, August 17th, 1844.

 



A "Séance" at the Skating Rink, Preston 1877

 

From the Preston Herald, Saturday, February 3rd, 1877.

 

This show presented the effects created by so-called 'mediums' but here clearly defined as illusions, rather than results of interaction with the dead.