OLD LIVERPOOL POST CARDS & PICTURES.

[phredd]

A new thread for an old subject.

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Picked this post card up at a boot fair. Can not tell what year it was, maybe you can. All I can say is:- it was before my time

[ChrisGeorge]

Hi Phredd

Thanks for starting this thread, Phredd. Hey that rhymes! Both PhilipG and I are postcard collectors so no doubt we will have images of our cards to add before too long. At a guess, I would say the card you show is probably 1920's to 1930's based on the old Green Goddess trams on Mann Island. Perhaps Philip has a better idea of the date.

Chris

[Kev]

There have been a few posts on postcards:

1) Very good views. Most early postcards date from...

Most early postcards date from 1902 when it became possible to write the message on the same side as the address.
So, if there is writing on the picture side of the card, and just...

2) Dating postcards.

[marie]

[marie]

MaritimeDigital Encyclopedia

[marie]

Liverpool Station of London! Sorry Kev, but I find it, and I think that it´s very beauty!

[marie]

And more here: Link

[ChrisGeorge]

Marie wrote:

I am not sure... help me!!

It´s said, Liverpool, New Scotia... Is it possible?

Yes, certainly, see here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool,_Nova_Scotia

Chris

[Genevieve]

I am not sure... help me!!

It´s said, Liverpool, New Scotia... Is it possible?

Good try Marie but Nova Scotia is a maritime province of Eastern Canada! There I woudn't need any visa!!

[marie]

Marie wrote:

I am not sure... help me!!

It´s said, Liverpool, New Scotia... Is it possible?

Yes, certainly, see here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool,_Nova_Scotia

Chris

Thanks, I am edit it. And in the last photo saids: Colchester, but in the web saids Liverpool. I am confused. Sorry, but I am not know the UK geography!

[marie]

More here: Link

[ChrisGeorge]

Liverpool Street, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, that last one, Marie.

Chris

[begsy]

Phredd, there's no vehicle traffic on your pic.(apart from the trams), so it must have been taken after the Mersey tunnel was opened--early thirties??

[PhilipG]

Hi Phredd

Thanks for starting this thread, Phredd. Hey that rhymes! Both PhilipG and I are postcard collectors so no doubt we will have images of our cards to add before too long. At a guess, I would say the card you show is probably 1920's to 1930's based on the old Green Goddess trams on Mann Island. Perhaps Philip has a better idea of the date.

Chris

Chris, That's the Pier Head, not Mann Island and the Green Goddesses (1930s) were noted for their streamlined design.
Only trams and later, busses would be seen here as all other traffic would use the Floating Roadway.

So, what other clues are there?
The Titanic Memorial, and the blob on the horizon which is probably Wallasey Town Hall - both 1916.
Apart from knowing about the Green Goddesses, I don't know much about trams (or even ships), so the photo is after 1916, but before 1930.

If the card is unused it may say (where the stamp should be) that the inland postage is 1/2d and foreign postage 1d. In that case such postcards are definitely no later than 1918.

It's always hard to put a precise year on postcards.
There is just one tram on this card of mine which places the date very close to 1957 when the last tram ran in Liverpool.

BTW, Kev, could we leave this thread with "Postcards" in the title, as the last one got merged with something else and faded away?

[ChrisGeorge]

Chris, That's the Pier Head, not Mann Island and the Green Goddesses (1930s) were noted for their streamlined design.
Only trams and later, busses would be seen here as all other traffic would use the Floating Roadway.

So, what other clues are there?
The Titanic Memorial, and the blob on the horizon which is probably Wallasey Town Hall - both 1916.
Apart from knowing about the Green Goddesses, I don't know much about trams (or even ships), so the photo is after 1916, but before 1930.

If the card is unused it may say (where the stamp should be) that the inland postage is 1/2d and foreign postage 1d. In that case such postcards are definitely no later than 1918.

It's always hard to put a precise year on postcards.
There is just one tram on this card of mine which places the date very close to 1957 when the last tram ran in Liverpool.

BTW, Kev, could we leave this thread with "Postcards" in the title, as the last one got merged with something else and faded away?

Hi Philip

Thanks for your informed opinion on the possible date of the postcard, Philip.

I always thought that "Mann Island" and the "Pier Head" were one and the same but I am open to being corrected and to learn the difference. Maybe we need another thread on it.

I also thought that the green trams in general were known as "Green Goddesses" so I am pleased to learn that, as you indicate, the name denoted a specific streamlined design of the 1930s.

Also not sure what you are asking that we do re the title of the thread. Could you clarify? I believe someone, possibly you but I am not sure, had started an earlier thread on old postcards but I think it might have developed into a general views of Liverpool thread. I do think there is value on having a thread just devoted to postcard views.

All the best

Chris