Now this is one of those picture postcards which I couldn’t
pass by.
It was sent by Floss in June 1914 to Frank at 56a Noble
Street, Wem and the message on the back wished “many happy returns of your
birthday. Hope you will like this P.P.C
will give you something when I come home.
Give my love to mother and Sid and all the other kids. With best love.”
It may be that Floss was working here or just passing through
when she bought the card and sent it from Chorlton sometime in the evening of
June 1st.
Sadly it is not I think a card unique to here.
It was published by the
Corona Publishing Co., Blackpool and will have been overprinted by order of a
local stationer’s.
And judging by the way the "sentiment" crosses the edge of the border this too may have been decided upon by the owner of the shop.
So if you had lived in Withington, Didsbury, or even Blackpool
that horse with its cart of flowers would have been available.
It might even have been in a shop in Wem where Frank lived.
And to conclude I went looking for 56a Noble Street in Wem
and found it a century after our card was sent.
It is one of two narrow houses
which share an entry and stands in an equally narrow street behind the High
Street and does not appear to have changed in a hundred years.
In time I will go looking for Frank but for now, I will close with a smile which comes from spotting that the address has been posted as Chorlton-Gum-Hardy .... so not content with being a joke on music halls for a century, we will now be known as the place with a glue factory.
Picture; A Load of Love from Chorlton-gum-Hardy, from the collection of David Harrop
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