Postcards

The copyright status of all of these is unclear. If you believe that you are the copyright owner, please get in touch. It’s a bit cheeky to be publishing individual’s messages from a century ago, but it’s also irresistible! Also please do get in touch if you can tell us anything about the senders or recipients, or what was going on when the message was sent.

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 Postcard kindly provided for copying by Robert Berkeley and Nathalie Muller. One of the E R Lovell cards. This shows Tyrells End. The signpost points up HIlls End and reads “To Woburn”. The cottage on the right stood on the unused patch of ground between Tyrells End Cottage and Tyrells End farm. The house on the left of the picture is Tyrells End Cottage.

 Postcard kindly provided for copying by Robert Berkeley and Nathalie Muller. One of the E R Lovell cards. This shows Tyrells End. The house is Linden Lodge, still present today. The message was:

This postcard turns out to be so fascinating that it gets a page all to itself! Read all about it at Joyce’s Postcard!

Postcard kindly provided for copying by Robert Berkeley and Nathalie Muller. This seems to be an old picture of the church reused on a relatively modern postcard, unused.

Postcard kindly provided for copying by Robert Berkeley and Nathalie Muller. One of the E R Lovell cards.
Postmarked 9 May 1923. The message was:
Church End, Eversholt, Bletchley.
Mrs Ricketts
Hawthorns
Chapel Rd
Flitwick
Beds
Dear Ma and Miss Webster
How do you like our church. Still Looking for you to come over if you can. What peculiar weather. Patient doing well. Remember me to Miss Groom.
Kindest regards
Evelyn

 Postcard kindly provided for copying by Robert Berkeley and Nathalie Muller.
Postmarked
7 15 PM 9 ?Y 18
[Presumably, 1918.]
Mrs H Newby
74 ??
Sunderland
9/4/18 [!] Just got letter. Weather fine. Am going to Cinema tonight. Feeling a lot better. Love to All. ??

 Postcard kindly provided for copying by Robert Berkeley and Nathalie Muller. Fisher & Sons “Woburn” Series of postcards, hand-coloured.
This postcard shows the cottages in HIlls End, on the north side of the road near to Tyrells End, which were demolished around 1960.

 Postcard kindly provided for copying by Robert Berkeley and Nathalie Muller. One of the E R Lovell cards. This is the same image as before – hymns 274, 132, 31!
23/12/29
Miss A Pearson, Woodglin, Seaforth Gardens, Winchmore Hill, London N
Dear Nan Just a time to wish you happy xmas many thanks for parcel will write again later (so busy) fondest love yours ever Patty
PS best wishes to all could not get any views of Tingrith

 Postcard kindly provided for copying by Robert Berkeley and Nathalie Muller. One of the E R Lovell cards.
Postmarked 6 45 PM 10 August 1922
Mrs [….]y
[…] [has somebody actually rubbed this out?]
Wellingboro, Norths
Dear Gert
Just a card to let you know that we are having a nice time. The weather is very unsettled but must not grumble. Hope you are keeping well. Jacks Dad is going in Hospital today. His sister is coming home with us on Saturday. Love from Harriett

 Postcard kindly provided for copying by Robert Berkeley and Nathalie Muller.
Judging from the state of the ivy around the east end of the vestry, one might guess this image to have been made on the same day as that of postcard 3 above.

 Postcard kindly provided for copying by Robert Berkeley and Nathalie Muller. One of the E R Lovell cards.

  Postcard kindly provided for copying by Robert Berkeley and Nathalie Muller. No publisher’s mark. The postmark is Woburn, February? 9? 1905 – and the stamp is entirely consistent with the date 1905. This is the same image as used for postcard 6 above, but without the hand colouring and with a great deal of feathering at the edges. I wonder who the girl was?
The message is maddeningly confusing.
Miss [HKM] [Gould? Jowell? Powell??], 12 Chester Terrace, London, SW
[The famous Chester Terrace is the very posh one next to Regent’s Park. However, that is definitely N, not SW. There is a Chester Terrace in Barking which is NE. Was there another in the SW then?]
Dear [HK], Many thanks for pc, Mrs Minchin had to come up, as they have let the house, so she very kindly offered to get any thing I wanted so may perhaps be glad to ?? you later with much Love hope you are well This view is quite near us Ta Ta ever yours PHM[?]

Postcard kindly provided for copying by Robert Berkeley and Nathalie Muller. No publisher’s mark. This is the same image as the hand-coloured version above.
Postmarked Woburn, 7 30 PM April 20 1905 and the stamp is right for that date.
Miss Ethel Culverhouse, 147, Stanley Rd, W. Croydon, Surrey
“The Poplars”, Milton Bryant, Woburn RSO
My Dear Ethel,
Thank you very much for pretty P.C. which you sent. I was more than glad to hear that you have passed your exam and I am sure you are too; for you deserved to pass as you did such an awful lot of practice. I daresay you are still top, but Mrs. R. did not read out any more marks, I hope you are top. Hoping you are having a nice Holiday. Love & Kisses from Dorothy

Postcard kindly provided for copying by Robert Berkeley and Nathalie Muller. One of the E R Lovell cards. This was called Rush Hill when the photo was taken. Now, the house on the left is called Rush Hill and the house on the right is called Helford House, and the houses are in Tyrells End. The houses were built in 1913 and the ivy has grown a great deal so the date is probably in the 1920s.

 

I (EJW) bought this postcard from EBay in 2016 for £1. There were two other cards available, neither of which I had seen before, but I was outbid. Anyone from Eversholt have those, please? Anyway, this is a new view of the outside of the church. The Parrott family all lived in Marston Mortayne, apparently. There were Parrots in Eversholt in 1860 but not in 1907.