| Messages
from the Past
So what did people write to one another 100 years ago? Many postcards carried short messages like Dear C,
or simple Happy Birthday
or Christmas greetings.
However because of
the popularity of collecting postcards, many people used to swop cards
by post, as this card of Maude shows:
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This card of Maude Fealy was sent to Miss H Williams in 1905 with the message, I think it is rather a nice "fad"
of collecting different photographs of one particular actress. Have you
a "favourite"?
Well, that "fad" is still going strong today, and I know who my "favourite" is!
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Travel featured in many messages.
Due to the frequent post, people could send a card in the morning saying
that they would be popping in that evening. However, some people were not
so fortunate as in this postcard sent from Ramsgate to Miss Mabel Galpin:
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Because of the public nature of postcards, people used to make it harder for anyone to 'accidentally' read their messages by writing the message sideways or upside-down to the address. More intimate messages were coded as seen above. This is a fairly easy code to crack and the message reads "with many kisses and best love" |
