Snow Scene, Greenwich Park
Second in my turn-of-the-20th-Century Christmas postcards series.
This is one of my favourite photos of Greenwich park – there is something mysterious and still about it – almost Narnia-esque. It was presumably taken before the gates were opened to hoards of small boys in knickerbockers carrying tin trays and I find it magical (I can’t work out whether that’s in spite of or because without the label, it could be pretty much anywhere.)
The message is pretty bog-standard, addressed to a Miss J. Homeock in Swindon.
With love to Joan from Mrs J and Mollie.
It’s postmarked 5.00pm, 7th November 1919, but I suspect the postcard is a good 20 years older than that.
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Phantom – I’m intrigued!
Why do you think the card is 20 years older than the date on the postmark? That’s a bit of a long time for someone to keep a card and then send it to their mates!
Whatever, the answer, seasons greetings to you and many thanks for your fascinating and entertaining site.
Cheers.
I don’t mean that they’d had the actual card hanging around – more that the postcard had been printed for many years – it wasn’t a new photograph. I’ve seen examples that are older.
Yes, a number of the postcards on sale (usually in rather unfashionable resorts)are photographs taken much more than twenty years before – no large hotels, for example.
And to wish you dear Phant, and all Phantomites around the world, a Very Merry Christmas, and a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year