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pastpapers.bsky.social @pastpapers.bsky.social · 2d

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pastpapers.bsky.social @pastpapers.bsky.social · 2d

In the best traditions of the Post Office, I'm a day late with an #OTD of the opening of the Tower 60 years ago

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pastpapers.bsky.social @pastpapers.bsky.social · 2d

Eye catching glass #ghostsign with a four digit telephone number

Faded 'Keen & Batchelor Distributors Order Office' glass sign in the middle of a green front door

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pastpapers.bsky.social @pastpapers.bsky.social · 2d

Go For Gas advert, 1959

Colourful advert featuring Mr Therm issued by the Gas Council in the Tatler & Bystander via the BNA

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pastpapers.bsky.social @pastpapers.bsky.social · 2d

Alt text should say Mr Therm not Mr Drip 😩

pastpapers.bsky.social @pastpapers.bsky.social · 3d

#Ruislip

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pastpapers.bsky.social @pastpapers.bsky.social · 3d

Wednesday wrapper, 1970

St Michael milk chocolate caramel wafer wrapper in gold, white & blue

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pastpapers.bsky.social @pastpapers.bsky.social · 3d

Looks like it might have been the Arden Toupe Centre (Staffs Sentinel, 1978)

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pastpapers.bsky.social @pastpapers.bsky.social · 6d

To Berkhamsted this morning for the antique & vintage market..always good to see the Home & Colonial #ghostsign

Faded sign for Home And Colonial Stores Limited

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pastpapers.bsky.social @pastpapers.bsky.social · 7d

My little notebook picked up from a dedicated FoB stand at a recent postcard fair.

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pastpapers.bsky.social @pastpapers.bsky.social · 7d

My 1960 GEC Cookery Book is looking a bit tatty now, but love the cover design by Dorrit Dekk

Spiral bound Cookery Book with colourful front cover

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pastpapers.bsky.social @pastpapers.bsky.social · 8d

Modern University Buildings, commemorative stamps designed by Nicholas Jenkins, September 22nd, 1971

Physical Sciences Building, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, 3p, Faraday Building, Southampton University, 5p, Engineering Department, Leicester University, 7 1/2p, Hexagon Restaurant, Essex University, 9p

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pastpapers.bsky.social @pastpapers.bsky.social · 8d

Monochrome & instructive..1972 advert for the Blackpool Lewis's store

Advert from the Lancashire Evening Post for the Blackpool Lewis's store with address & 5 digit phone number

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pastpapers.bsky.social @pastpapers.bsky.social · 9d

#Pinner

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pastpapers.bsky.social @pastpapers.bsky.social · 10d

Wednesday wrapper - Nestlés superfine plain chocolate, 1960s

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pastpapers.bsky.social @pastpapers.bsky.social · 10d

For #LincolnshireDay a C20th coastal postcard selection

B&W card of the pier entrance at Skegness by H Coates

Butlin's Holiday Camp at Skegness with pool and fountain posted in 1965

Sapphire card of the boating lake at Chapel St Leonards with caravan park in the distance

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pastpapers.bsky.social @pastpapers.bsky.social · 11d

Some glorious #midcentury adverts pictured here in this postcard image. No photographer named, and 1959 has been hand written on the back. #incidentalbus

The 77b bus photographed against a backdrop of adverts including Fray Bentos, Sunblest, Kellogg's, Kitkat & Crosse & Blackwell.

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pastpapers.bsky.social @pastpapers.bsky.social · 12d

A couple of old tins for #NationalCoffeeDay

Lyons Ground Coffee and Allied Suppliers coffee tins

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pastpapers.bsky.social @pastpapers.bsky.social · 14d

Replica of Stephenson's Rocket near the entrance to the British Transport Museum in Clapham. Image taken by my grandmother in 1967. #Railway200

Colour photograph of Rocket with Museum of British Transport signage

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pastpapers.bsky.social @pastpapers.bsky.social · 14d

Pillar To Post Royal Mail First Day Cover #PostBoxSaturday

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pastpapers.bsky.social @pastpapers.bsky.social · 15d

Some kept early 1970s airline ephemera

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pastpapers.bsky.social @pastpapers.bsky.social · 16d

The Rowntree's has finally gone up

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pastpapers.bsky.social @pastpapers.bsky.social · 16d

One of the several fascinating adverts to be found in the 1931 edition of 'Metro-Land'
#Harrow

An advert for the Ridgeway Estate at North Harrow by Cutler's Builders

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pastpapers.bsky.social @pastpapers.bsky.social · 17d

Nice chemist sign of indeterminate age spotted above a sweet shop in Kings Langley today.

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pastpapers.bsky.social @pastpapers.bsky.social · 17d

Not my usual area of postcard interest, but this Burton's shop in South East London caught my eye #incidentalbus
(Photo by Alan B Cross, 1959)

Black & White image of the number 132 bus in SE London showing the Eltham Burton's store in 1959.

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