A Happy Birthday

On the reverse:  British Production, Series No. 20. Handwritten date 4/12/16.

To Grandma

In the garden

Written on the reverse: "Taken in Mrs Willsons Garden Aug/23".

A nice cup of tea, hotel style

It's the weekend again and time for another instalment of Sepia Saturday.

A postally unused card of the Winter Garden at the Regent Palace Hotel, London, from the 1920s. I stayed here on holiday a couple of times in the 1950s with my parents and thought it was all terribly grand. The hotel opened its doors on May 16, 1915 and closed on December 31, 2006; it's now been converted into a "£300m retail development".
You can read more about the Regent Palace Hotel here and about the recent conversion here and here.

More refreshing posts over at Sepia Saturday

Dear Heart

Postmarked Ballinea, Mullingar, January 8, 1911, with a rather cryptic message on the reverse: "Hope you will come over tomorrow without fail. I will meet you where I told you so do not disappoint me. Yrs truly, M. McCormick".

Mr Matheson Lang

Matheson Lang in character as Hamlet, Rotary Photographic Series card, postmarked Battersea SW, July 22, 1908.

Splendid mutton chops

Charles

Joshua

Mr Morris

Knave of Hearts

This weekend marks the Queen's Diamond Jubilee; today's photograph was taken in Hensall during village celebrations for her coronation way back in 1953.

This is me (aged 7) in our garden just before taking part in the fancy dress parade. I'm dressed up as the Knave of Hearts and that look of concentration on my face is probably concern about not dropping my tray of jam tarts. Mum made my red and white costume; this was in the days before tights and I remember her boiling stockings and knickers in a pan of dark red dye, then padding the knickers and sewing them to the stockings.

More jollification over at Sepia Saturday!

Albert Seberg

Carte de visite by Clement Rogers, Victoria Chambers, Derby. Written on the reverse: "Albert Seberg, Sweden, 1871".