{"id":4993,"date":"2026-01-30T09:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T09:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/?p=4993"},"modified":"2026-02-07T11:41:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T11:41:14","slug":"where-were-these-pictures-taken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/2026\/01\/30\/where-were-these-pictures-taken\/","title":{"rendered":"Where were these pictures taken?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In our regular newsletter<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

In this blog today we have a selection of postcards which have come-to-light as we have been doing work on the postcard collection, for which we know little-to-nothing. We do not know where they are pictures of, nor why they have ended up in Dorset. As is the way with postcards, they might be local, national, or even potentially international in origin.<\/p>\n

Therefore, we are asking for help from readers today, to see if these postcards can be identified, so that we can determine what to do with them next. If you have any ideas as to where any of these postcards might depict, please let us know in the comments below!<\/p>\n

Postcard 1 – unidentified street, possibly late 19th Century<\/h3>\n

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Postcard 2 – possibly a former pub in Daglingworth, Gloucestershire<\/h3>\n

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Postcard 3 – possibly a village hall? \"\"<\/h3>\n

Postcard 4 – an unknown military camp \"\"<\/h3>\n

Postcard 5 – East Drive, Brighton [now positively identified]<\/h3>\n

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Postcard 6 – a village fire<\/h3>\n

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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?<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1892,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[82,33,662,109],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4993"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1892"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4993"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5018,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4993\/revisions\/5018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}