A happy New Year to you!

Festive season

Nellie

Written on the reverse: The Compliments of the Season Nellie 1932.

A hand-made card

Heartfelt wishes

Nowell

To dear Pap and Mama

This is the only card in my Victorian scrap book where the reverse is visible; it's stuck down along one short edge. The verse is by Frances Ridley Havergal.

With Christmas Greetings to Grandmama

Greetings from Egypt

With the Compliments of the Season

A seasonal card from WW1 for this week's Sepia Saturday.

On the reverse: Harold Moyse, 11 Victoria Parade, Muswell Hill, N. and the Town, Enfield. The hand-written message reads With the Compliments of the Season from Marion & Tom to Mr & Mrs C. Moses.

Tom is wearing the uniform of the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC); his wife Marion and their daughters are beautifully dressed. The family makes me think of my grandfather's photograph and I wonder whether Tom met a different fate.

My own Compliments of the Season to all my fellow Sepia Saturday participants.

Light from the Cross

Christmas card by Marcus Ward & Co.

With Best Wishes for a Happy Christmas

The Compliments of the Season!

A Merry Christmas bright and gay

With only a week to go before Christmas, I'm posting seasonal cards for the next few days. This one is from my Victorian Scrap Book.

A formal group

Wedding hats

Love's enchanted fairyland

Sepia Saturday has gone rather lovey-dovey this week and I'm on theme with this sentimental little number posted in 1914.

Till We Meet Again

To part would be too keen a pain,

Did we not hope to meet again,

Again to wander hand in hand,

Through love's enchanted fairyland.

Much, much more of the same over at Sepia Saturday.

Chubby feet

Three

One step beyond

Golden glow

Teachers

Lace, tucks and buttons

Photograph is 145mm wide, 216mm high.

Workers

This is the nearest image I've got to this week's Sepia Saturday theme of overalls and working clothes.

These chaps are definitely wearing work clothes and work boots; the chap in the centre looks to be clad in a pair of overalls under his jacket. There's no information on the postcard so we can only speculate where and who they were in real life.

More of this week's entries over at Sepia Saturday.

Crossed arms

Stamped on the reverse: Bill Hopkins Collection, Notting Hill Gate, London. 21 Kensington Park Road, W11.

Schooldays

September

Stamped on the reverse: 30 Sep 1916.

Mr Happy and Mr Glum

Smile please

Derwent Water at Lodore

The companion photograph to the one in yesterday's post.

Jolly boating weather

We're on the water with Sepia Saturday this week.

The image is another page from my Edwardian photograph album and features the same cast of characters as before; this time they're boating on Derwent Water in the Lake District.

More messing about in boats over at Sepia Saturday.

Miss Gabrielle Ray

On the reverse: The Philco Publishing Co., Holborn Place, London W. C.

I can't keep my feet still

Photograph is 82mm wide, 132mm high. Impressed on the front: Wickens, Bangor.

Dudley, lounging

Written on the reverse: Dudley Hughes, 244 Highlands Blvd, Leigh-on-Sea.

Lace and flowers

Blue for a boy

And....curtsey

Two

This week's Sepia Saturday theme image shows two little girls; I'm almost on theme with a girl and boy who are more than likely sister and brother.

It's another 'orphan' photograph without name, date, place or photographer's details. I'd love to know who they were and when the photograph was taken. Doesn't that serious little boy in his tweed suit just make your heart melt?

More heart-melting images over at Sepia Saturday.

A fine watch chain

Photograph is 85mm wide, 135mm high.