The lost 1950’s collection ....... No1 catching the tram in Brussels

Now like all good things the lost 1950’s collection was not really lost just misplaced.

The collection was passed onto me by a friend and in the midst of redecorating the house last Christmas were carefully stored away in the cellar and came to light this week when the said cellar was also going through a makeover.

There are about 30 picture postcards from the 1950s which are part of a bigger collection ranging from Edwardian birthday cards to a vast selection of seaside scenes from Britain, France and Belgium with a few of the Swiss Alps.

But it is the 1950s group that has caught my eye which I suppose is partly because that was the decade when I was growing up and because they have a quaintness about them which makes them look almost like today but not quite.

And to start the series, this is of the Stock Exchange in Brussels, chosen because of that tram.
Trams first came to the city in 1869 and the first electric one 25 years later.

Over time the livery of the trams has changed but in the 1920s they were given a primrose colour which lasted till the mid 1990s.

Location; Brussels

Picture; the Stock Exchange, Brussels, circa 1950 from the collection of  Ron Stubley