The Alter, St George's Chapel, Windsor

A card from H.L.C. (H L Clancy) from Windsor.

Waltham Abbey

A postcard from E.C. to Edith Hurst.

Lych Gate (Parish Church), Beckenham

A message from C.F.B. in Beckenham after receiving some pretty pieces of ribbon from Mrs Hurst.

Peasemore Church

A postcard from L.P. who had visited Uncle M for 15 minutes. Possibly a cousin/sister of Elizabeth Povey.

St. John's Church, Lewes

The question about where the church is may have been meant humourously as it is at the end of the street that Edith and Percy were living in.

Southover Church, Lewes

John had been to visit Lewes on 24th August 1904 and Edith had late dinners.

Ludgate Circus

An unsent card.

St Mary's Church, Highweek, Newton Abbot

A post card to Aunt Mable, unsigned. So was it from a niece or nephew?

January 31st 1906 was a Wednesday.

The Cathedral, Exeter

A card from Bess to Mr & Mrs Williams.

April 2nd 1907 was a Tuesday.

All Saints' Church, Brixham

A post card to Mr & Mrs Williams at an address in London from WRW. Were the Williams' visiting London, the message would seem to suggest that they knew the church in Brixham, why may they have been downhearted?

August 30th 1906 was a Thursday.

Salisbury Cathedral

A card to Alice Langford from C. Lee. Was Alice a piano teacher? Alice had an exam in December 1903.

May 19th 1904 was a Thursday.

Brougham Place, North Adelaide

A card with Christmas greetings to Mr Williams Jun. from Will in South Australia. The postmark is incomplete, but does show enough to indicate that the post card was sent on the 20 something of November 1905. The changed delivery address indicates that the Williams family had moved home.

Catholic Cathedral, Portsmouth

A card to Mrs Easterbrook from her daughter, Mabel. There are a number of post cards that were sent to "Spreyton", but how did they arrive in John's collection. He would have been 22 years old when this card was sent an had been working in his father's butchers business for more than 8 years. The evidence of the main body of the collection is that his enthusiasm for collecting cards was between 1903 and 1907 when he saved 340 of the 408 posted on this site. The peak year was 1904 with 143 cards.

Initial research:
Mrs Easterbrook, Elizabeth was born in Holcombe Rogus, Devon in about 1864.
Mabel was born on April 23rd 1889 and married Walter Bovey in 1915. They had one son, Kenneth. Walter who was a Grenadier Guard died in France on December 16th 1918.
She was living in Painton in September 1939.
She died in 1987.

January 17th 1913 was a Friday.

Blackfriars and St Pauls, London

A card to Edith Hurst postmarked Croydon.

January 13th 1905 was a Friday.

St Mary's Butts, Reading

A post card to Miss L. Povey from Nan, please send some Lily of the Valley.

The postage stamp has been canceled/obliterated by crayon so the is no way of dating this card.

Another message to Kells

This is the second post card to the Barnwell children. While it is impossible to know how these cards came to be in John's collection, it could be that Charlie Barnewell and his sister had connections with Brighton. The 1911 Census suggests that Charles was a student at Ampleforth and his sister, Maggie was at Convent Of The Sacret Heart in Brighton.

August 26th 1906 was a Sunday.

Oxford

A post card sent from W.L.A. to Edith Hurst when she was on a visit to Harrogate.

July 8th 1905 was a Saturday.

Exeter Cathedral from the East

A post card from John's cousin Reggie. He wrote about seeing John at Horsham Carnival. This film is of the event in 1913 starting after the cricket match.

July 2nd 1909 was a Friday.

High Weeks Church, Newton Abbot

A post card to Mrs Shilston living in Chelston, Torquay. There are several cards in John's collection addressed to people in Torquay that appear to have no connection with the Goodridge family in Brighton. How did these cards get into his collection?

May 1st 1909 was a Saturday.

The 1911 census record for Spreyton, Chelston showing Eva Jane Shilston living with her mother Sarah Jane Easterbrook.

Street Scene by Francis Frith

A Christmas greeting post card to Miss Hurst.