Photochrom: brand name with hints of either colour photography, maybe autochromes, or hand tinted. ‘Publishers to the World’. Chatsworth House is 150 miles south of Fern Street, in the Derbyshire Peak District. You could probably have taken a train door to door.
It’s a Frith! The Frances Frith Collection. Beautiful Art Nouveau lettering on the blank side, and the Frith code number on the front right hand corner. We might be able to track how old this is, but the styles gives us possibly the 1910s-30s.
“Dear Martin, A line saying that I am now in Waterloo Station 4 -pm. Letter will follow. Alf.” Half penny stamp. Not cheap, then. And the picture on the front is a coloured print of St Paul’s Cathedral’s ‘choir & reredos’. Who was Alf? Did you know him? Was he a cousin, maybe even your…
Annie & John are in Corbridge. They write: “Dear Martin, This is a lovely country place. Fine walks (but) no clicks, so it is no use.” Clicks? Dicks? Ducks? Clucks? “Be good to Fluffy. I suppose she will have missed me by now. Will let you know later when we are to arrive.” Who are…
One of the bonnier pictorials in this collection – it’s a hand coloured photograph or a watercolour painting, and yes there’s a pronounced green tint on front and the printing on the back is in the same green. So somebody went to the Isle of Wight, perhaps on holiday. Or one of the…
THE GREAT FERN STREET POSTCARD MYSTERY 