OLD LIVERPOOL POST CARDS & PICTURES.

[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?