Photographs, vintage postcards and other ephemera


Sunday, 24 April 2011

On the reverse

Laundry Work

Miss Huntington's Department of Domestic Science (Laundry Work) at Mr. Moody's School, Northfield, Mass.

Sewing

Miss Huntington's Department of Domestic Science (Sewing) at Mr. Moody's School, Northfield, Mass.

Sunday, 6 March 2011

Bennett Line, Goole & Boulogne

Glass ashtray, date unknown.

S.S. Africa

Built 1903 for Bennett Steamship Co Ltd, Goole; trading between Goole and Boulogne. The Captain was William Denby (my great great grandfather). Africa was chartered by the Admiralty at the beginning of World War I and sank after striking a mine in September 1915.