Council House, Birmingham

A card to Mrs Easterbrook from L Browne saying she was going to be busy on the following Friday.

August 6th 1908 was a Thursday.

Ship & Bell Hotel, Horndean

A card from Mabel to her mother, Mrs Easterbrook. I wonder who Norman was?

June 30th 1903 was a Tuesday.

Note: the building next to the hotel is the Gales Brewery. The business was established in 1847 and closed in 2006 after the business was bought by Fullers.

Cheddar

A message to Mrs Easterbrook from one of her children. The signature of the sender is unreadable, but they were going to arrive at their mother's home the following Friday.

September 17th 1908 was a Thursday.

New Street, Birmingham

A card from S. Browne about a visit with her mother to Spreyton. It would seem that S. Browne was a school teacher.

September 24th 1908 was a Thursday.

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.