Now I am fascinated by stories and more than that the way that a photograph can offer up a story even when there is apparently nothing there.
And this is one of those.
It comes from a collection of picture postcards which were found by a friend of Ron Stubley who looked after them and recently passed them over to me.
They are a mixed bag, consisting of saucy seaside cards, more than a few of holiday destinations and some which are of a family but have no names and no dates.
Many were sent to addresses in north Manchester from resorts on the Welsh coast and that is about it.
Over the last few months quite a few of them have featured on the blog but until now I have not used those which have no means of identifying the place or the people.
And that brings me to this one. We are clearly on a beach with a pier and judging by other cards in the collection I think the date will be sometime in the 1930s.
Someone may well recognise the pier in the distance, although I am not counting on it.
For me the story is just that the picture perfectly offers up a day at the seaside.
That mix of sand, sandwiches, warm beer, tepid tea and very cold sea water.
Location; unknown
Picture; somewhere on a beach, date unknown, from the collection of Ron Stubley
It comes from a collection of picture postcards which were found by a friend of Ron Stubley who looked after them and recently passed them over to me.
They are a mixed bag, consisting of saucy seaside cards, more than a few of holiday destinations and some which are of a family but have no names and no dates.
Over the last few months quite a few of them have featured on the blog but until now I have not used those which have no means of identifying the place or the people.
And that brings me to this one. We are clearly on a beach with a pier and judging by other cards in the collection I think the date will be sometime in the 1930s.
For me the story is just that the picture perfectly offers up a day at the seaside.
That mix of sand, sandwiches, warm beer, tepid tea and very cold sea water.
Location; unknown
Picture; somewhere on a beach, date unknown, from the collection of Ron Stubley
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