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Greetings from the Norfolk Broads
The Broads (known for marketing purposes as The Broads National Park) is a network of rivers and lakes in the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. Although the terms “Norfolk Broads” and “Suffolk Broads” are correctly used to identify specific areas within the two counties respectively, the whole area is frequently referred to as the Norfolk Broads. The lakes, known as broads, were formed by the flooding of peat workings. The Broads, and some surrounding land, were constituted as a special area with a level of protection similar to a national park by the Norfolk and Suffolk Broads Act 1988. The area is 303 square km, most of which is in Norfolk. Now having said all that, the card was mailed in 1961 and pre-dates National Park status, but its two different stamps and clear postmark are there, and this is an ideal souvenir of the location. Grade: 1

Code: 20516500T
Price: $6.00
Gloucestershire, Lower Slaughter
Lower Slaughter is a village in the Cotswold district, built on both banks of the River Eye, which also flows through Lower Slaughter’s twin village — Upper Slaughter. At the west end of the village there is a 19th-century water mill with an undershot waterwheel and a chimney for additional steam power. While the mill is built of red brick, most of the 16th and 17th century homes in the village use Cotswold limestone with mullioned windows and often with other embellishments such as projecting gables. The name of the village derives form the Old English term “slough” meaning “wet land”. This card, mailed in 1962 with stamp, airmail sticker, and clear postmark, became quite international and well-protected. Grade: 2

Code: 20516501T
Price: $5.00
Felixstowe, multiple views
A really inconspicuous thumbtack hole is the only downside to this card, mailed in 1978 with stamp and bilingual airmail sticker — and postmark. Grade: 4

Code: 20516502T
Price: $1.00
Leicester, multiple views
Mailed in 1980, this card has two different stamps, an overlapping air mail sticker, a clear postmark, and a well-hidden but still-there thumbtack hole. All these views are identified in the caption on the reverse. Grade: 4

Code: 20516503T
Price: $1.00
London, Houses of Parliament
A view from across The Thames, on a card mailed in the early 1960s with stamp, airmail sticker, and most of a postmark. A lot of handling over the years but otherwise clean. Grade: 3

Code: 20516504T
Price: $1.00
London, Grosvenor House
Mailed in 1978, with stamp, partial postmark, and a prominent thumbtack hole. Grade: 4

Code: 20516505T
Price: $0.50
New Forest, multiple views
Mailed in 1980, with two different stamps, readable postmark, and a thumbtack hole. Grade: 4

Code: 20516506T
Price: $1.00
Isle of Wight, The Needles
The front of this real-photo card is good. It was mailed long ago, and the stamp and postmark are missing. Grade: 4

Code: 20516507T
Price: $1.00
Porlock Bay from Porlock Hill
Mailed in 1959, the stamp and original sender’s postmark are there, along with the receiver’s cancellation a day later. We like when this happens. Grade 1

Code: 20516508T
Price: $5.00
Warwick Castle
The stamp and 1958 postmark remain on this card, along with remnants of tape as you can see at the upper edge of the card in the scan. Grade: 4

Code: 20516509T
Price: $1.00
Looe (Cornwall) from the Downs
Nicely preserved since being mailed in 1959, with stamp and clear postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 20516510T
Price: $4.00
Newton Ferrers
The manor of Newton Ferrers is listed in the 1086 Domesday Book as Niwetone. It was granted to a branch of the Norman family of de Ferrers, after which the manor and village became known as Newton Ferrers. It was probably the birthplace of 17th-century pirate Henry Every. On 1 April 1935 the parish was abolished to form “Newton and Noss”, and part also went to Yealmpton. So it’s been there a long time, and so (in its own way) has this real-photo card, mailed in 1959 with stamp and clear postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 20516511T
Price: $4.00
Corfe Castle from the Entrance
Corfe Castle is a fortification on the Isle of Purbeck peninsula in Dorset. Built by William the Conqueror, the castle dates to the 11th century. The first phase was one of the earliest castles in England to be built at least partly using stone when the majority were built with earth and timber. Corfe Castle underwent major structural changes in the 12th and 13th centuries. Though this sepia card looks almost as old, it’s not, having been mailed in 1958 with stamp and postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 20516512T
Price: $5.00
Corfe Castle
Mailed in 1954, with stamp and postmark. The ultimate ruins. Grade: 1

Code: 20516513T
Price: $5.00
Torquay, Redgate Beach
Sepia card mailed in 1953 with two different stamps and postmark. We looked at photos of the beach today, and (to us, anyway) oddly it hasn’t changed much over all those years. Grade: 1

Code: 20516514T
Price: $6.00
Wayford
A real-photo card, mailed in 1951 with its stamp and clear Great Yarmouth postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 20516515T
Price: $4.00
Greetings from Woolacombe, multiple views
Mostly beaches and all identified on the front; on the back, mailed in 1949 with stamp and postmark and some age foxing. Grade: 2

Code: 20516516T
Price: $6.00
Solitude, Crummock Water
Crummock Water, in the Lake District, is 2.5 miles (4.0 km) long, 0.6 miles (0.97 km) wide, and 140 feet (43 m) deep … its primary inflow is Buttermere Dubs, outflow is the River Cocker, which meets the River Derwent at Cockermouth before entering the Irish Sea. It is in the administrative county of Cumberland, in the parish of Buttermere, and its western shore forms part of the western boundary of the parish. So there. Card mailed in 1951 with stamp and postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 20516517T
Price: $5.00
Ullswater and St. Sunday Crag
St. Sunday Crag is a fell in the Lake District, part of the Fairfield group in the Eastern Fells. It’s a prominent feature in the Patterdale skyline, with a distinctive rounded shape, and figures so finely in views from the upper reach of the lake that it is sometimes referred to as ‘the Ullswater Fell’. This older Valentine’s card shows a view from Gowbarrow Park and Hellvellyn is in there, too. Mailed in 1951, with stamp and postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 20516518T
Price: $5.00
Greetings from London
This card has flaws but at the same time it covers the waterfront, so to speak, quite well. It was mailed in 1953. The stamp is there, but not postmarked, and instead the post office scrawled over that stamp. Some minor, almost invisible creasing. The best thing, of course, is that all those views are identified. Grade: 3

Code: 20516519T
Price: $4.00
Langdale Pikes and Valley
In 1949, the card was posted to an English address (stamp and postmark are there), then forwarded on to another place in the same town — so there’s a second postmark as well. See the postmark ink transfer on the front. Grade: 3

Code: 20516520T
Price: $4.00
The Langdale Pikes from the River
Someone was in a hurry. They started to write a message, and gave up at the start of the second sentence. It’s unmailed Valentine’s card A.607. Grade: 3

Code: 20516521T
Price: $2.00
Windermere from Orrest Head
Unused, older real-photo card with substantial foxing on the reverse, and a fair amount of handling. One thing it does have that we’ve not often seen: the legend in the postage area saying that “1d. postage if with only 5 words of greetings”. Grade: 3

Code: 20516522T
Price: $3.00
Waterhead, Windermere with Langdale Pikes
The detailed caption calls Windermere “a fair summary of the whole district”, and we could probably say the same about this old Valentine’s postcard A444, mailed in 1954 with two stamps and postmark. Some postmark transfer on the front. Grade: 2

Code: 20516523T
Price: $6.00
Waterhead, Ambleside and Langdale Pikes
Real-photo card mailed to one address in 1949 (with stamp and postmark) and then forwarded on to another address in the same city (Leicester), with a different postmark. Well-traveled, in its way. Grade: 2

Code: 20516524T
Price: $5.00
Isle of Wight, The Needles
Mailed in 1958 with two different stamps and postmark, this real-photo card somehow seems quite forbidding. All in the perception, though. Grade: 1

Code: 20516525T
Price: $7.00
Milford-on-Sea, Keyhaven River
Unused R.A. (Postcards) Ltd. real-photo card 7604. Grade: 1

Code: 20516526T
Price: $5.00
Bude, Summerleaze Beach
Unused Valentine’s card A2212, completely clean though it has an unused 2d stamp affixed. We won’t consider that to be a flaw. Grade: 1

Code: 20516527T
Price: $5.00
Bude, Crooklets Beach
Unused Valentine’s card A2214, tiny age foxing, and though it has an unused 2d stamp affixed, we won’t consider that to be a flaw. Grade: 1

Code: 20516528T
Price: $5.00
Bude, The River and Nanny Moore’s Bridge
Unused Valentine’s card A2215, clean and though it has an unused 2d stamp affixed, we won’t consider that to be a flaw. Grade: 1

Code: 20516529T
Price: $5.00
Bude, Summerleaze, Bathing Pool
Unused Valentine’s card A2211, and though it has an unused 2d stamp affixed, we won’t consider that to be a flaw. Grade: 1

Code: 20516530T
Price: $5.00
Torquay, Oddicombe Beach
A nice real-photo card with serrated edges, mailed in 1957 with stamp and full postmark. One very minor dark spot near (at) upper reverse edge. Grade: 1

Code: 20516531T
Price: $5.00
Guernsey, View from Jerbourg
Other than being authentic and old, this card has little to recommend it. Well, that, plus coming from a less-common location. Mailed in 1958, the stamp and faint postmark are there along with an abrasion along the right front edge, and tape remnants on the reverse. Grade: 5

Code: 20516532T
Price: $0.30
Guernsey, multiple views
… and these views include South Coast Cliffs, Fermain Bay, Soldiers Bay, and Petit Bot Bay — all on a card mailed in 1993 with a quite long Guernsey stamp overlapping a blue airmail sticker. Readable postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 20516533T
Price: $3.00
Guernsey, Castle Cornet & Adjacent Islands
This real-photo card was mailed in 1947, with stamp and Rugby postmark, along with the request to forward it to the receiver whose school term had ended. And so it was, successfully. Grade: 1

Code: 20516534T
Price: $5.00
Buttermere (English Lakes)
Unused Photochrom card giving the sender a choice of postage rates depending on how much (s)he wrote. Grade: 1

Code: 20516535T
Price: $4.00
Bournemouth, Studland, The Beach
“Greetings from Bournemouth” on a real-photo postcard that manages to make The Beach less than inviting. But the card itself: fine, mailed in 1953 with stamp and exceptionally clear postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 20516536T
Price: $5.00
New Forest, Ponies
Unused R.A. (Postcards) Ltd. real-photo card 8331. Grade: 1

Code: 20516537T
Price: $3.00
New Forest, Rufus Stone
You’ll want to know the story, as we did. The iron-clad Rufus Stone stone marks the (alleged) spot where King William II was fatally wounded with an arrow, during a royal hunting outing, in 1100 AD. The king was nicknamed Rufus, apparently because of his ruddy complexion and red hair, and was son of King William I who was responsible for designating the area as the royal hunting ground known today as the New Forest. We have no way to disprove that account! Unused card but significantly smudged on the reverse. Grade: 3

Code: 20516538T
Price: $3.00
Worthing, Marine Parade, Steyne Hotel
Nice real-photo overview in a calmer time … the card was written and stamped (two different) for mailing but doesn’t look as if it was. Only because of that, Grade: 4

Code: 20516539T
Price: $4.00

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