“Having a good time, travelled 140 miles today” .......... on holiday in the August of 1931

Now as we move effortlessly into August the season of sending holiday postcards will once have been in full swing..

Not of course that we send as many as we did at the beginning of the last century.

Back then with frequent collections and deliveries, sending a message by picture postcards was as common as texting today.

So with that in mind here is the first of a short series of comic cards.

This one was sent in the August of 1931 from Colwyn Bay to Harpurhey.

Bertha was on a motoring holiday which will in itself make the holiday as something new.

She told Edna and Bert that she had travelled 140 miles that day, seen some “lovely sights” and had been charged “one shilling” to sit in Lloyd George’s chair.”

And for anyone with an interest in the picture, here is one of those hardware shops familiar to anyone born before 1970.

They were an Aladdin’s Cave of hardware opportunities offering everything from paraffin, to waxed string, an assortment of different sized screws, pots pans and paint.

Location; Wales

Picture; comic card, circa 1931 from the collection of Ron Stubley