WHO ARE YOU MRS. DAINTY?! FASCINATING VINTAGE POSTCARDS FROM THE FAMILY VAULTS

​I have always been interested in history, and anyone who knows me knows what a massive sentimentalist I am.  Family history is particularly interesting to me, I love discovering little things that make me go "wow"! My Mum passed away in 2014 in the UK, after living for 50 years in the same cottage in Dunham Massey, Cheshire.  She left behind some interesting items, photos, cards, etc that she had "saved," this in itself fascinated me, wish I could ask why she chose to keep the things she did.  Perhaps I am like my Mum in more ways than one, because instead of tossing them, I stuffed them into a suitcase and brought back home to Virginia so I could take a closer look.  I briefly went through them initially, but not in any great detail, and they have been sitting in the cupboard, waiting for me.  Just recently, I decided to take a closer look (have to admit that this was spurred on by watching an episode of Marie Kondo's Tidying Up!!) and discovered a bag full of postcards that she had kept.  Upon looking even closer, I found that some of these postcards were very old, the oldest dating back to 1905!!  Yes, you read that correctly, 1905!!

A postcard from 1905

A postcard postmarked 29th November 1905 with a stamp showing an image of King George V

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