Sometimes you come across a picture postcard which you instantly take to, and so it was with this one.
It was sent from Manchester in the July of 1922 to Mr. and Mrs. Turner, care of Mrs. Thomas, at 64 Wellington Road, Rhyl.
And the message on the back informed them that “Edie fainted in the church, ‘What a thing to do, He might have left her in the lurch, and married me or Loo’”.
I can’t work out whether the sender or the Turner’s were the happily married couple, and there are no more clues, leaving me just to fall back on the address in Manchester, which was 71 Derby Street, Moss Side.
It was situated between Denmark Road and Great Western Street, and vanished sometime in the second half of the last century, along with a series of other streets of terraced housing.
And if I have got this correct, it is now just a footpath leading from Monton Street running out on to a playing field.
That said the house in Rhyl is still there just a few streets back from the seafront and looking very much as if it still offers bed and breakfast to those talking a short break
So far I haven’t been able to find either the Turner’s or Mrs. Williams in the historic records, but I shall keep trying, if only because I love the postcard.
It comes from the National Series, and its design may predate 1922 by a good couple of decades.
Location; Manchester and Rhyl
Picture; Off for The Honeymoon, circa 1922, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
And the message on the back informed them that “Edie fainted in the church, ‘What a thing to do, He might have left her in the lurch, and married me or Loo’”.
I can’t work out whether the sender or the Turner’s were the happily married couple, and there are no more clues, leaving me just to fall back on the address in Manchester, which was 71 Derby Street, Moss Side.
And if I have got this correct, it is now just a footpath leading from Monton Street running out on to a playing field.
That said the house in Rhyl is still there just a few streets back from the seafront and looking very much as if it still offers bed and breakfast to those talking a short break
So far I haven’t been able to find either the Turner’s or Mrs. Williams in the historic records, but I shall keep trying, if only because I love the postcard.
It comes from the National Series, and its design may predate 1922 by a good couple of decades.
Location; Manchester and Rhyl
Picture; Off for The Honeymoon, circa 1922, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
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