It’s been several months since our last postcard blog. So far, we’ve covered the tourist hotspots of Weymouth and Bournemouth. This month, we’re focusing on some of the older postcards from one of Dorset’s smaller settlements: West Lulworth. As the gateway to the famous geological sites of Lulworth Cove, Stair Hole and Durdle Door, it’s… Read more The Dorset Postcard Collection – Lulworth
In our regular newsletter we have a feature which challenges our readers to identify where historic photos were taken. In most cases we know where these pictures were taken before we share them to the public as part of the feature, but every now and then we come across some pictures which truly stump us.… Read more Where were these pictures taken?
A few months ago, we kicked off our postcard blog series with a selection of postcards from Bournemouth. This month, we’re focusing on another of Dorset’s tourist hotspots: Weymouth. Weymouth’s rise as a fashionable seaside resort began in the second half of the eighteenth century, helped by the endorsement of King George III, who visited… Read more The Dorset Postcard Collection – Weymouth
When did you last send a postcard? For many of us, postcards are reserved for summer holidays, and even then they have largely been eclipsed by texts and video calls. But in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the postcard was a hugely popular means of communication. By the end of King Edward VII’s… Read more The Dorset Postcard Collection – Bournemouth
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