Holiday post cards

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Most of us remember the days before computers, texts and instant communication where we wrote letters and post cards to each other, so it was very pleasing when the post man dropped such a post card on the mat recently sent from a friend on holiday. The tradition of holiday post cards goes back a long way, certainly before cars, but inevitably the motor car started to feature on them around 1900 or before.

In 1925, the Bullnose Morris accounted for 40% of cars owned in Britain so it's no surprise to see it chosen by the artist. A popular comic seaside post card theme was the interreaction between men and women in all shapes and sizes - mostly saucy and sometimes "X-rated" .

(Text Robin Batchelor, pictures author's collection)

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