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maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 12 Aug 2021 16:00

Crikey, Florence!!!

Nameslessone - my attitude, as well :-(

Researching:
Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad) Allegedly the heaviest man in England in 1842

nameslessone

nameslessone Report 12 Aug 2021 15:53

I sometimes look at the pile of postcards my OH kept and wonder if they are worth anything. Those post card collector events have much the same rubbish.

Then I put them back :-D

Florence61

Florence61 Report 12 Aug 2021 15:41

"Old Postcards"? Well yesterday i received a postcard from Corfu. Nothing old about that you may wonder except it was from my dad and posted in early October last year 2020!!

Florence in the hebrides

Researching:
house/hampshire prophet/cheshire skinner/kent

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 11 Aug 2021 12:41

I have some wartime postcards too - they're in an album.
I also have granny and grandad's insurance policies, for if they were sick and couldn't work etc. before the NHS.
One's from the RAOB, the other from the Oddfellows.

Even though g grandad had a good job, G gran had her 9 children in the workhouse - the doctor was free there!
Gran never had the opportunity of free medical care when she had her children, workhoses had closed, the NHS hadn't started. She kept the letter 'inviting' her to have my uncle in 1940.
The cost was £4/15-, £2/5- to be paid in advance.
That was probably a weeks wages.

Researching:
Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad) Allegedly the heaviest man in England in 1842

grannyfranny

grannyfranny Report 11 Aug 2021 11:54

Made me smile, Granny used to say that to us.

I have postcards kept by family which have been very useful to the fam hist, also old bank books with addresses on. A series of postcards were sent by Grandad during WW1 when he was a PT instructor for the army. He was in Dorset, the family were in Lancs.

Researching:
Freeman of Berwick upon Tweed

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 11 Aug 2021 10:54

As I've said before - my gran was a hoarder!
I have 2 shoe boxes of postcards that I'm going through - it appears granny 'retrieved' postcards she had sent other people.
There are also postcards my siblings and I, and my parents, sent to gran decades ago!'
Then there are the 'special' postcards, like the one where gran wrote down the alternative version of 'After the Ball', in the 1920's :-D
I found this today, I think it should be called 'The Shopping List'

A lb of tea at one and 3
A pot of strawberry jam
Some new laid eggs, a dozen pegs
and a lb of rashers of ham
I'll say this over all the way
in case I should forget,
For if I chance to get things wrong
mother gets in a 'Pet'
A lb of three at one and tea
a pot of new laid ham
Some new laid pegs, and strawberry eggs
and a lb of rashers of jam!

Researching:
Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad) Allegedly the heaviest man in England in 1842